Jérôme de Cooman

Jerome De Cooman is a research professor at the University of Liège, where he specializes in intellectual property, competition, and data law.

His research focuses on the regulation of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, competition law, intellectual property, and data protection. His work examines standardization as a regulatory model, algorithmic detection of anticompetitive agreements, algorithmic collusion, and the economic effects of generative artificial intelligence. He teaches European law, artificial intelligence and big-data applications, and intellectual-property, data, and competition law.

De Cooman joined the University of Liège’s EU Legal Studies research unit as a research and teaching assistant and later served as a research assistant in European Union law, big data, and artificial intelligence and as a teaching assistant in European competition law. He is also administrative manager of the Brussels School of Competition’s Executive Master in Law & AI and an editor of the European Law Blog.

De Cooman serves on the governance board of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence JUST-AI and is a junior member of the Academic Society for Competition Law and the International Society of Public Law. He is also a junior editor of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the University of Warsaw’s Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies.

He has received the Robotics & AI Law Society Award, the Rubén Perea Award, a Best Paper Award from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Best Junior Paper Award from the Research Centre in Information, Law and Society at the University of Namur.

De Cooman earned a Ph.D. in law, an LL.M., and a bachelor’s in law from the University of Liège. He also earned a master’s in management science, cum laude, from HEC Liège and completed the Law, Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Technology Programme at the Brussels School of Competition.