Biography
Marta Cantero Gamito is Research Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI). She is also Associate Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of Tartu since 2018. Before joining the STG, Marta previously worked at CUNEF Universidad, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD in Law and an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Law from the European University Institute. Marta has also held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrech, and Berkman Klein Center (Harvard Law School).
Marta investigates the regulation and governance of technology, with a focus on transnational private regulation and standardization. Her research aims at evaluating the suitability and identifying the limitations of private regulation and governance for addressing contemporary problems that affect social values and fundamental rights.
She has published several articles on telecommunications, digital platforms, standardization, and artificial intelligence. Marta has co-edited books on Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms (Springer, 2020), The role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering: Standards, Contracts, and Codes (Edward Elgar, 2020), and The Transformation of Economic Law (Hart, 2019).