About me
I am an incoming Hauser & Remarque Global Fellow at New York University. I study how intellectual property law and emerging technologies govern questions of authenticity, ownership, and exchange in digital markets, particularly in the luxury and art sectors.
Research Agenda
My research examines how intellectual property law structures innovation, authenticity, and market governance in cultural and technology-driven industries. Combining legal analysis with empirical methods, I study authentication technologies and the legal infrastructures through which cultural value is stabilized and contested in global markets. My current projects draw on survey data as well as fieldwork across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
News
2026
Presentation @ 44th Annual Congress of ATRIP (PhD Workshop)
Branding the Nation: Intellectual Property as Cultural Statecraft
University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Presentation @ 6th ORIGINALLUXURY Roundtable
Transparency and the New Law & Economics of Luxury Resale
Chateau Le Rosey, Switzerland
Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Culture: Evidence from the Luxury Watch Industry
Preprint
Now available on SSRN [Read the paper]
4iP Council Research Award (1st place), for:
Post-Sale Governance and Innovation: Evidence of Authentication Strategies in Luxury Watch Resale Markets
Brussels, Belgium
Ongoing Research
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry, 2026, preprint available on SSRN.
Blockchain, Lemons, and the New Limits of Trademark Exhaustion, 2026, under review.
Law, Legitimacy, and Social Norms: A Cross-National Study of Digital Piracy Attitudes in Europe, 2026, working paper.
Luxury Brands as Industrial Policy: The Political Economy of Selective Distribution in the EU, 2025, working paper.
Forgery and the Laws of Authenticity in Contemporary Art Markets, ongoing project.
Selected Publications
Fashioning Authenticity: How Digital Product Passports Could Shape the Future of Trademark Law, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice – Special Issue on Fashion Law, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2025.
SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark (co-author), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025.
Counterfeit Goods and Organized Crime: An Intractable Problem, Review of Counterfeit Goods and Organised Crime by Prof. Michael Blakeney, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Vol. 19, no. 11, 2024.
A Taxonomy for Blockchain-Based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) (co-author), IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2023.
Awards
2026-2027
Hauser & Remarque Global Fellowship
The Remarque Institute & School of Law @ NYU
New York, USA
2026
4iP Council Research Award (1st place)
Post-Sale Governance and Innovation: Evidence of Authentication Strategies in Luxury Watch Resale Markets
Brussels, Belgium
2025
Best Conference Paper @
Asian Society for Innovation and Policy Conference (ASIP)
Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship
Kaohsiung City
2025
Best Conference Paper @
Institute of Brand and Innovation Law PhD Workshop, University College London (UCL)
Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship
London, United Kingdom
Selected Presentations
2026
44th Annual Congress of ATRIP (PhD Workshop)
Branding the Nation: Intellectual Property as Cultural Statecraft
University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Presentation @ 6th ORIGINALLUXURY Roundtable
Transparency and the New Law & Economics of Luxury Resale
Chateau Le Rosey, Switzerland
2025
Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
University of Antwerp, Belgium
IP and Technology in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Invited Presentation at the Center for Trustworthy AI
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul
Young Voices in Law & Technology
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong SAR
Relevant Research Appointements
2026-2027
Hauser & Remarque Global Fellow (incoming)
The Remarque Institute & School of Law
New York University (NYU)
2021-2026
Scientific Researcher
Center for Law & Economics
ETH Zurich
2025
Visiting Scholar
Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics
New York University (NYU), Stern Business School
2024-2025
Visiting Research Associate
Faculty of Law
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Relevant Education
PhD (Dr. sc.)
ETH Zurich, 2026
Law & Economics
Master of Law
University of Fribourg, 2018
Law , spec. in Litigation, Corporate, Tax, IP, Competition, Contracts
Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies
Georgetown Law Center, Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, 2017
Comparative Law spec. IP, Tax & Banking
Bachelor of Law
University of Fribourg, 2016
Law, mention “utriusque iuris“
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