Biography

Natalia Menéndez González is a Research Associate on data governance at the Centre for a Digital Society of the European University Institute and Assistant Professor and Director of the Minor in Digital Law & AI Law at CUNEF University. She is also a visiting researcher at the Biometrics Law Lab of the Center for IT & IP Law at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology, a co-founder of The DigiCon blog, and a former vice-chair of the PhD students in AI Ethics research group.

She holds a PhD in Law and an LLM from the European University Institute, and she has been a guest lecturer at the School of Transnational Governance and the Universities of Turin, York (Canada), Dresden, Toronto and SNSPA. She has numerous publications on the intersection of Law and Technology across diverse outlets, including Computer Law and Security Review, Communication Law Review, and Digital Society, and has co-edited the volume "Next Democratic Frontiers for Facial Recognition Technology" (2025), published by Springer.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• Impact of Covid-19 on the Academic Job Market in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
• Technological change and society
• Digital transformations and society

Additional responsibilities

• Internal Reviewer: European Journal of Legal Studies

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• CARLINI, Roberta; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; SCHIFFRIN, Anya (2026), How to update EU and US copyright regimes in the age of AI, Working Paper
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; LEVANTINO, Francesco Paolo; VERZA, Sofia; TREVISAN, Stefano (2026), 'Face the facts' : examining the use of facial recognition technology by news outlets through human rights lenses, Article
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle; BOTTA, Marco (2026), International transfers of personal v. non-personal data: reconstructing the EU legal puzzle, Article
• GALLI, Niccolò; BOTTA, Marco; CARLINI, Roberta; DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle; MARCUS, J. Scott; MAZZONI, Leonardo; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; PARCU, Pier Luigi; PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata; ROSSI, Maria Alessandra (2025), CDS position statement on the UK Intellectual Property Office's consultation on standard essential patents, Working Paper
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia (2025), Technical solutions for a proportional use of Facial Recognition Technology, Contribution to book
• PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata; PARCU, Pier Luigi; ROSSI, Maria Alessandra; BOTTA, Marco; MAZZONI, Leonardo; GALLI, Niccolò; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; SIGNORETTA, Camilla (2025), CDS position statement on the European Commission's call for evidence for an evaluation and impact assessment on the EU Chips Act 2, Working Paper