Deirdre Curtin is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute (EUI). Prior to joining the EUI, she held the Chair in European Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam. She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2003), of the Royal Irish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020) and a laureate of the Spinoza prize (NWO, 2007) for research in the field of European law and governance. Her research interests are in the fields of European institutions and European administrative law with a particular interest in justice and home affairs and data protection. Joining the EUI as Jean Monnet Fellow in 2017, Mariavittoria Catanzariti is currently Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI) and Adjunct Professor of Law & Ethics of Innovation & Sustainability at LUISS University. Barrister at law since 2010, she obtained a PhD in European Law in 2011 from Roma Tre University and qualified as an Associate Professor in Legal Sociology in 2018. Her research interest revolves around the interaction of digital transformation and information society with the law. Her publications cover privacy and data protection, law & technologies, human rights, and legal sociology.