Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras is a Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She is President (Elect) of the European Law Institute (ELI) and Director of the Research Chair on Artificial Intelligence: Foundations and Horizons. She was Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT in 2021–2022 and is a Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She serves as Spain’s delegate to UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) for Working Group VI on secured transactions and Working Group I on warehouse receipts, and is currently Spain’s delegate to Working Group IV on electronic commerce (AI in international trade and data transactions). She also acts as an Expert for UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT on digital economy projects. Teresa is an arbitrator at the Madrid Court of Arbitration. She is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, the EU Expert Group for the Observatory on the Platform Economy, and the EU Expert Group on B2B Data Sharing and Cloud Computing. She is also a member of the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee of the Spanish Lawyers’ Mutual Insurance Fund. Teresa sits on the Executive Committee and Council of the European Law Institute and is the author of the ELI Guiding Principles on Automated Decision-Making in Europe (2022). She is Vice-President of the Working Group on Arbitration and the Digital Economy of CIAM-CIAR. Her previous academic positions include: James J. Coleman Sr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, Academic Visitor at the University of Sydney, Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge, Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics, University of Bremen (Germany), and Chair of Excellence at the University of Oxford.