Professors of BSC

Przemysław (Przemek) Pałka is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where he serves as Principal Investigator in two projects: Private Law of Data (Norway Grants) and “Consumer Law and the Attention Economy” (NCN Poland). He is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale.

In his research, he focuses on the intersections of law, technology, society, psychology, and philosophy. He is broadly interested in how the law contributes to the emergence of the information society and the normative and conceptual challenges posed by socio-technological transformations. Specifically, his interests include private and economic law (property, contract, consumer law, data protection), data analytics, artificial intelligence, virtual goods, and the automation of certain legal tasks. He is also developing an interest in law, cognitive sciences, and mental health.

From 2018 to 2020, he was a Fellow in Private Law at Yale, assisting in the management of the Yale Law School Center for Private Law, under the direction of Daniel Markovits. They organized the Seminar in Private Law, focusing on private law and technology in 2018, and private law and inequality in 2019. During this time, he was also a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale, led by Jack Balkin. Prior to Yale, he was a Research Associate at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he coordinated and contributed to projects like CLAUDETTE and ARTSY, which explored issues at the intersection of consumer law, personal data protection, and artificial intelligence. He previously completed his PhD at the EUI, where he wrote and defended a doctoral dissertation titled “Virtual Property: Towards a General Theory,” available in Open Access.