n PERSONAL INFORMATION Dr. Mark. D. Cole 4 Rue Alphonse Weicker, L-2721 Luxembourg, Luxembourg mark.cole@uni.lu / m.cole@emr-sb.de www.medialaw.lu / www.uni.lu/fdef/droit/equipe/mark_cole / www.emr-sb.de

Sex Male | Date of birth 30/10/1972 | Nationality British

n WORK EXPERIENCE

Since January 2015

and previously since March 2007

Professor in Media and Telecommunication Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg

Associate Professor for the Law of the New Information Technologies, Media and Communications Law at the University of Luxembourg

Research: European, national and comparative media law including new information technologies law, electronic communications networks and services law, intellectual property law and data protection law; European law; Public International law; comparative constitutional law

Functions: Course director of Master in Space, Communications and Media Law (LL.M.) (previously of Master in European Law programmes for joint first year until 2014 and second year in General European Law track with SatComMediaLaw option); Member of Faculty Council since 2012

Faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Centre Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)

Ongoing and former:

Since September 2016

Appointed as one of the first arbitrators at the newly created “Deutsches Medienschiedsgericht (DMS)”, Leipzig, Germany

Since January 2015

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Independent Audiovisual Authority of Luxembourg (ALIA, Autorité Luxembourgeoise Indépendante de l’Audiovisuel)

Since July 2014 Director for Academic Affairs at the Institute of European Media Law in Saarbrücken, Germany (EMR, Institut für Europäisches Medienrecht) Chairman (previously member) of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the EMR

Since January 2014 Co-Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics of the Universität des Saarlandes (IfRI, Institut für Rechtsinformatik)

Since February 2009 Lecturer in the LL.M.-programme ”European Law“, course: “European Media Competition Law” at the Europainstitut (Saarbrücken, Germany)

Since April 2004 Lecturer in the LL.M.-Programme ”Media Law“, course: “European MediaLaw” at the University of Mainz (Germany)

March 2005-Feb. 2008 Lecturer for European Law at the European School of Governance (Berlin, Germany)

Oct. 2005-Feb. 2007 Postdoctoral research fellow (Habilitand), Chair of Professor Dr. Dieter Dörr in Public Law, International and European Law, Media Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany)

Sept. 2005-Feb. 2007 Visiting Scholar and Lecturer for Media Law at TU Braunschweig, Department for Media Sciences

May 2002-Sept. 2005 Researcher (full-time from June 2004 to September 2005 and part time from May 2002 to June 2004) at Mainzer Medieninstitut (Mainz Media Institute)

Jan. 1999-April 2002 Researcher at the Chair of Professor Dr. Dörr

Feb.-Dec. 1998 International project work (USA) at the Chair of Professor Dr. Dörr

1996-1997 Student researcher at the Chair of Professor Dr. Dörr

1995-1996 Student researcher at the Chair for International Politics, esp. European Integration (Professor Dr. Dr. Weidenfeld, Dept. of Political Science, University of Mainz)

1992-1999 Freelance writer for regional daily newspaper n EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Promotion (Ph.D.): December 2003

Dr. iur. (Ph. D.; summa cum laude); Dissertation: „Das Selbst- bestimmungsrecht indigener Völker. Eine völkerrechtliche Bestandsaufnahme am Beispiel der Native Americans in den USA“ (Dissertation received „Forschungsförderpreis 2003 der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V.“ (Award for promotion of excellent research of the friends of the University of Mainz))

Rechtsreferendariat (2 year legal internship leading

to bar exam):

May 2004 Second State Examination

May 2002-April 2004 Work experience of 3-6 months in all following areas: European Law: Legal Department, Südwestrundfunk (public broadcaster) and European Commission, DG Competition, C 2 – Media; Administrative Law: Mainz Media Institute and Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer (National University of Public Administration); Criminal Law: Judge at Regional Court in Mainz; Private Law: Intellectual Property, Copyright, Competition and Media Law, Kanzlei Fuhrmann Wallenfels Binder (law office) and Judge at Local Court in Mainz

University – Law School: January 1998 First State Examination

1992-1997 Law School at University of Mainz Area of choice: International and European Law; Grant from Konrad Adenauer- Stiftung (Begabtenförderung; foundation granting scholarship for talented students) and member of its programme „Journalistische Nachwuchsförderung“ (practical seminars for the education of young journalists)

University – Second Facultative Study:

February 1997 Zwischenzeugnis Politikwissenschaft (intermediate degree in Political Science)

1993-1996 School of Political Sciences and Philosophy, University of Mainz

n ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Recent and selected publications Founding and Associate Editor of European Data Protection Law Review

(EdpL) (since 01/2015); International Member of the Editorial Board of Revue du Droit des Technologies de l'Information (R.D.T.I.) (since 01/2012); Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Law and Information Technology (IJLIT) (since 06/2015); Co-Editor of Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Europäisches Medienrecht (EMR) (since vol. 44, 06/2014); Co-Editor of Script/EMR series; Co-Editor of monthly EMR-Newsletter

Defining a framework for the monitoring of advertising rules under the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, Brussels 2016 (with Xavier Le Den, Tsvetelina Blagoeva, Louise Brix, Justina Raižytė and Sebastian Schweda)

Länderbericht Luxembourg and Editor of Fotografien in der Großregion/Photographie dans la Grande Région Saarbrücken 2016, pp. 193-212 (Country Report with Bernd Justin Jütte; Editor with Stephan Ory)

From Digital Rights Ireland and Schrems in Luxembourg to Zakharov and Szabó Vissy in Strasbourg, EdpL 2016, pp. 121-129 (with Annelies Vandendriessche)

AVMS-RADAR (AudioVisual Media Services- Regulatory Authorities’ InDependence And Efficiency Review) – Update on recent changes and developments in Member States and Candidate Countries that are relevant for the analysis of independence and efficient functioning of audiovisual media services regulatory bodies, Brussels 2016, 137 p. w. annexes (with Gianna Iacino, Peter Matzneller, Jenny Metzdorf, Sebastian Schweda)

The "Minimal" Approach: the CJEU on the Concept of "Establishment" Triggering Jurisdiction for DPAs and Limitations of Their Sanctioning Powers – Case C-230/14, Weltimmo, EdpL 2015, pp. 310-315 (with Andra Giurgiu)

Rundfunkstaatsvertrag/Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag – Heidelberger Kommentar, Looseleaf commentary, co-editor and author since 33rd supplement September 2008, Jehle Rehm, Heidelberg et al. (as editor with Reinhard Hartstein, Wolf-Dieter Ring, Johannes Kreile, Dieter Dörr, Rupert Stettner, Eva Wagner), 5002 p., two-three monthly updates with each supplement approx 150-200 p., currently 68th supplement Dec 2016

The Current European Legal Framework – The Sets of Rules on Commercial Communication in a Converged World, in: EAO (ed.), New forms of Commercial Communications in a Converged Audiovisual Sector, IRIS Special 2014, pp. 37-50

Data Retention after the Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Report, 2014 (together with Franziska Boehm), available at http://www.janalbrecht.eu/fileadmin/material/Dokumente/Boehm-Cole-data_retention-study-print-layout.pdf

EU Data Retention – Finally Abolished? Eight Years in Light of Article 8, CritQ 2014, pp. 58-78 (together with Franziska Boehm) and editor of volume 2014/I of Critical Quarterly (CritQ), Nomos, with focus on „Current Developments in European Data Protection Law” (Introduction, pp. 5-9)

Luxembourg, Country report in: European Parliament/DG for Internal Policies – Policy Dept. C Citizen’s Rights and Constitutional Affairs (ed.), The Citizen’s Right to Information: Law and Policy in the EU and its Member States, Brussels 2012, p. 465-480

Note d’observations, “Roj TV” entre ordre public et principe du pays d’origine, Revue du Droit des Technologies de l'Information (R.D.T.I.), No. 47 (2012), p. 50-61

Europäisches und Internationales Medienrecht – Vorschriftensammlung (Textbook on European and International Media Law), Textbuch Deutsches Recht, 2nd ed., Heidelberg 2012, 881 p. (ed. with Udo Fink, Rolf Schwartmann, Tobias Keber)

Protecting Privacy in a Digital Age, in: Dörr/Weaver (eds.), The Right to Privacy in the Light of Media Convergence – Perspectives from Three Continents, Cologne 2012, p. 1-31 (with Russell L. Weaver, David F. Partlett)

The Atlantic or Pacific(a) Divide: On Regulating Broadcast Indecency in the U.S. from a Comparative European Perspective, in: Dörr/Fink/Weaver/Keber (eds.), Brandeis meets Gutenberg – German-American Conversations on Law, 1991-2011, Frankfurt 2012, p. 36-63

The European Legal Framework for On-demand Services: What Directive for Which Services?, in: The Regulation of On-demand Audiovisual Services: Chaos or Coherence?, ed. by European Audiovisual Observatory, IRIS Special, Strasbourg, December 2011, p. 35-45 (also in French and German)

The Country of Origin Principle – From State Sovereignty under Public International Law to Inclusion in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive of the European Union, in: Meng/Ress/Stein (ed.), Europäische Integration und Globalisierung – Festschrift zum 60-jährigen Bestehen des Europa-Instituts, Baden-Baden 2011, p. 113-12

Die Rundfunkfinanzierung auf dem Prüfstand des Europarechts, in: Dörr (ed.), Medienrechtliches Kolloquium zum 75. Geburtstag von Hartmut Schiedermair, Frankfurt 2011, p. 109-133

Handbuch Medienrecht: Recht der elektronischen Massenmedien (ed. with Dieter Dörr/Johannes Kreile and author of the chapters “Einleitung” (p. 1-15), “Rechtsgrundlagen der elektronischen Medien” (p. 103-125), “Medienstrafrecht” (p. 277-299), “Jugendmedienschutz” (p. 299-339)), 2nd completely revised and expanded ed., Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 2011, 565 + XXXVI p.

Recent and selected Conferences Dec. 2016: Presentation on „Jurisdiction and Connection Criteria“ at

EAO/EPRA-expert workshop „Addressing regulatory asymmetries: video-sharing platforms, targeting on-demand services, and services outside the EU“ in Strasbourg, France

Dec. 2016: Presentation on „Digital in the Focus: Update on Data Protection and Intellectual Property Law cases” at the Council Legal Seminar 2016 in Brussels, Belgium

Sept. 2016: Expert Hearing CULT Committee European Parliament on Revision of AVMSD, in Brussels, Belgium

Sept. 2016: Chair of Conference on „How to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation and the Privacy Shield?“, EdpL/Lexxion Verlag, in Cologne, Germany

June 2016: Presentation on „Investigative Journalism in Europe“ at the conference oft he Luxembourgish Journalists Associations on the occasion of the journalist awards, in Esch-Belval, Luxembourg

June 2016: Discussion participant on „New Forms of Commercial Communication“ at the Trimediale 2016 on the future of regulation oft he media in a convergent competitive enviroment, Vienna, Austria

June 2016: Presentation on „The Reform of the EU-SatCab-RL between Geo-Blocking and borderless Information freedom“ at the EMR-Panel at the ANGACom 2016 on “Technology neutral digital common market without borders“, in Cologne, Germany

June 2016: Chair of Conference and Presentation on „Case Law Update – Pending and recently decided cases from the CJEU and ECtHR“ at the ERA/EMR Annual Conference on European Media Law, Brussels, Belgium

April 2016: “Die EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung – Smarter oder nicht?” at EMR/Deutsche TV Plattform-Workshop on Smart Devices, Personal TV und interaktive Dienste: Was bringt die neue Datenschutz-Grundverordnung der EU? in Berlin, Germany

April 2016: “Media- und Data-Agenturen Wer, wie und was? Zur rechtlichen Ausgangssituation” at EMR/Staatskanzlei Schleswig-Holstein-Conference on Der unsichtbare Dritte – Zure rechtlichen und Marktsituation von Media- und Data-Agenturen in Kiel, Germany

Dec. 2015: Expert hearing at Deutscher Bundestag on “Revision of the AVMSD” in Berlin, Germany

Nov. 2015: Organiser and Chair of Workshop on Regulation of Audiovisual Platforms at EBU in Geneva, Switzerland

Oct. 2015: Securing pluralism by ensuring equality of access to financing resources – a new topic for broadcast regulation? at BLM Media Law Symposion in Munich, Germany

Sept. 2015: Content Restrictions for Media: applying them differently for different forms of media? at Middlesex University Workshop “Press Regulation in an Era of Convergence“, London, UK

May 2015: European Media Law: The case-law of the Court of Justice of the EU – An overview of pending and recently decided CJEU-cases at ERA/EMR Annual European Media Law conference, Brussels, Belgium

Feb. 2015: “The EU Data protection framework and recent cases” at ERA seminar Vilnius, Lithuania

Nov. 2014:”The constitutional meaning of human dignity” at FSF/FSM workshop “Protection of human dignity in media” Berlin, Germany

June 2014: “Internet Governance, Innovation, IPR”, at Future Internet Summit, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

May 2014: “Freedom of Expression”, at Freedom of Expression Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland

April 2014: “The current legal framework for commercial communication” at European Audiovisual Observatory workshop on “New Forms of Commercial Communications in a Converged Audiovisual Sector”, Saarbrücken, Germany

Dec. 2013: “10 Fälle zur Meinungsfreiheit nach Artikel 10 der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention“, Workshop Series at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

May 2013: “CJEU Dealing with Space Communication”, at Workshop on “International Regulations of Space Communications”, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Sept. 2012: “Combatting Cybercrime – Can Law contribute to enhancing Security of Communication Networks? On International, European and National Responses and Possibilities” at Cryptography and Security System (CSS’12) Conference, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

July 2012: “The Conflict Between Protection of Free Expression and Protection of Human Dignity” / “Privacy in an Era of Advancing Technology”, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (USA), Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida, USA

June 2012: “Indecent Content” in Broadcasting and its Regulation in a Comparative Perspective – or: from Wardrobe Malfunction to Human Dignity”, Free Speech Discussion Forum, Notre Dame University Centre, London, UK

May 2012: “Review of the EU-Telecommunications Framework and its Impact on the Frequency Management” at Workshop “International Regulations of Space Communications: Current Issues”, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

April 2011: “The European Legal Framework: What Directives for Which Services?”, EAO / EMR Workshop “Whose Boots Are Made for Walking? On-demand services – a case for passing regulation, entrusting self-/co-regulation or leaving it to general legislation?”, London, UK