Maelenn Corfmat

Maelenn holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Montreal and from the University of Paris Cité. She completed her undergraduate studies in French and German law (LL.B.) and holds a Master’s degree (M.A.) in Health Law at University of Paris Cité. She also worked for several years as a legal counsel in the pharmaceutical industry before turning to academia and research.

She joins the CGP as an Academic Associate, specializing in healthcare law and AI law. In her doctoral research, she explored the capacity of data protection rules to regulate the development and use phases of AI systems in the healthcare sector. Her interests also include the impact of healthcare technologies on privacy, medical liability in the context of digital technologies, and medical device law. She also reflects about the combination of different modes of normativity to regulate and shape uses and societal impacts of AI in healthcare.

Key research areas: health data governance, personal data protection, AI law, medical liability, comparative law, methodological approaches in comparative legal studies, ethics of AI.