Dr. Salomé LANNIER

Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Law; MSCA Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies

Principal investigator: “PROTect against EXploitation: exploitative offences versus legitimate work in a digitalised labour market” – PROTEX, co-funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies and the European Union (2025-2028)

Previous research:

2023-2025 – Postdoctoral researcher, under the supervision of Prof. TOSZA

• “Electronic evidence in administrative punitive proceedings”, ELEVADMIN Project, funded by the European Commission:
  • Luxembourg report on powers of administrative authorities to obtain electronic evidence from private third parties
  • Comparative report over the 9 national reports
• National Centre of Excellence in Research, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust:
  • REGCHECK project: development of a tool to check the compliance of mobile applications with the General Data Protection Regulation
  • ROBOCOMP project: legal analysis of artificial intelligence tools used for anti-money laundering compliance
• Innovation Friendly Regulations Advisory Group: assistance on the report to the European Commission, “Emerging digital technologies in public sector – The case of virtual worlds”

2020-2023 – Doctoral researcher, Centre for Comparative Labour and Social Security Law, University of Bordeaux, France, & Doctoral Programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice, University of Valencia, Spain: “New technologies and human trafficking. An analysis based on the theory of sovereignty”

Joint supervisors: Bénédicte LAVAUD-LEGENDRE, University of Bordeaux; María Teresa ALEMANY JORDAN, University of Valencia

Master 2 in European Economic and Financial Criminal Law

• Course “Criminal Law and Cyberspace”: Fighting against Child Sexual Abuse Material, Data retention and surveillance
• Course “Eurocrimes”: Human Trafficking
• Course “Methodology”: Databases & Zotero
• Supervision of master dissertations

Master 2 in European Union Law and Litigation

• Course “EU Asylum Law”: Human Trafficking vs Human Smuggling

Master 1 in European Law

• Course “Cyberlaw”: Online Gender-Based Violence and Content Moderation; Fighting against Child Sexual Abuse Material

Bachelor in law

• Course “Special Criminal Law”: Sexual offenses; Exploitation offenses

Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

• Seminars on methodology: Language Analysis

Invited presentations:

• “La traite des êtres humains : définition et enjeux juridiques européens et luxembourgeois”, Human Rights PhD Seminar, University of Luxembourg & Conférences Saint-Yves “La lutte contre la traite des êtres humains et la protection de ses victimes au Luxembourg”, March 2025
• “La loi du 7 août 2023 : les apports et les lacunes”, Legitech Conference “Les violences sexuelles après la Loi du 7 août 2023 en vue de renforcer les moyens de lutte contre les abus sexuels et l’exploitation sexuelle des mineurs”, February 2025
• “What does explainability mean in law? The need for a bottom-up approach”, Conference “Automating anti-money laundering compliance: technical opportunities and legal challenges”, University of Luxembourg, January 2025
• Round table “Initiatives prises par les entreprises technologiques pour lutter contre la traite des êtres humains et les collaborations possibles”, BENELUX Day “Human trafficking and new technologies”, December 2024
• “La légalité des actes d’enquête numériques : le Luxembourg se conforme-t-il aux critères de la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme ?”, Legitech Conference “Justice pénale et données électroniques”, November 2024
• “Trata de seres humanos facilitada por nuevas tecnologías: roles de los Estados y de los actores digitales”, Coloquio doctoral, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, June 2024
• With Siclari M., “Gathering electronic evidence for administrative punitive investigations – preliminary results of research into EU and national law”, in International Conference “Information Technology as a Challenge and an Opportunity for Gathering Evidence in Punitive Proceedings”, University of Luxembourg, May 2024
• “Etat de la doctrine française sur les violences sexuelles”, in Advanced training for magistrates – Criminal law and sexual consent, a comparative law approach, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Paris, France, March 2024
• “Corporate Sustainability and New Technologies”, Lunch Seminars, Löning Human Rights & Responsible Business, August 2023
• “Sex work: Ethics and Law. Legal perspective”, Johannes Gutenberg Mainz University, Germany, May 2022

Further dissemination:

• With Benichou Duhil de Benaze M., “Scoping intrusive investigation powers through social network analysis”, 14th edition of the Illicit Network Workshop, Leiden University, the Netherlands, December 2024
• “Obligations of private actors to fight against child sexual abuse. A systematisation of EU law”, 2nd annual Child Sexual Abuse Research Network workshop, Leiden University, the Netherlands, December 2024
• With Voordeckers O., and Tosza S., “The Use of AI for Anti-Money Laundering Purposes: Keeping Human Rights in the Loop”, ILPC Annual Conference, November 2024
• With Siclari M., Voordeckers O., Abualhaija S., Ceci M. and Sannier N., “Explaining the law for software engineering”, Lawtomation Days 2024 “Computing the law, regulating the algorithm: the transformative power of digital ecosystems”, iE University, Spain, September 2024
• “Regulating sex work as platform work. A focus on algorithms to forget about sex… and work”, Digital Global Intimacies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2024
• “Infiltrating virtual worlds: The regulation of undercover agents through fundamental rights”, International Congress “Towards a Responsible Development of the Metaverse”, University of Alicante, Spain, June 2024
• “Protecting trafficked victims in multi-level regulatory systems: national referral mechanisms”, Doctoral Workshop: Enforcement of law in multi-level regulatory systems, University of Luxembourg, December 2023
• “Quelle justice pour les victimes de traite des êtres humains ? Entre genre, âge et origine”, Journée d’étude “Genre et justice, perspectives croisées”, Université de Bordeaux & Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, France October 2023
• “Theorising sovereignty outside states”, PhD Summer Workshop in London, European Law School, United Kingdom, September 2023
• “Fighting human trafficking with new technologies: a new security approach?”, Summer School “Building bridges between dualities. Is there still room for optimistic views?”, Universitat de Valéncia, Spain, June 2023
• With Molinier E., “OnlyFans et relations de travail”, Internal Seminar “Les Frontières du travail marchand à l’épreuve des mutations technologiques”, COMPTRASEC, University of Bordeaux, France, November 2022
• “Repenser au territoire : Cybercriminalité et techniques d’enquête”, Conference “Repenser le territoire à l’aune du numérique”, Fédération pour l’Etude du Droit International, France, November 2022
• “Victims of human trafficking: belonging or non-belonging in Europe”, Winter School on Belonging and Non-Belonging in Europe, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, FORTHEM Alliance, March 2022.
• “Des algorithmes américains pour lutter contre la traite des êtres humains. Quelle régulation en Europe?”, Conference “Les droits et libertés face aux transformations technologiques”, Université de Bordeaux, France, December 2021

Other outreach activities:

Researchers at School, organized by Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg

03/2024: Pairing Scheme, panel “Rising poverty in Luxembourg and evolution of the labour market”, Fonds National de la Recherche & Chambre des Députés, Luxembourg

02/12/2023: Interview by France Culture (radio) for the international day for the abolition of slavery

2016 – 2020: Creation of the YouTube channel Codes&Co and publication of videos on various legal topics for a wide audience

PhD thesis prize, special mention for interdisciplinary, Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bordeaux, 2024, PhD thesis graded as Excellent, Cum Laude, University of Valencia, Spain

26/08/19 – 25/08/20: Legal writer for the magistrate in charge of the evaluation of France by the Financial Action Task Force, Sub-directorate for specialized criminal justice, Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons, Ministry of Justice, France

Internship experiences during university:

• Centre des Droits des Femmes et des Familles, Toulouse, France
• Cabinet Maître Mankou, droit des étrangers, Toulouse, France
• Mission égalité femmes-hommes, Direction Départementale de la Cohésion Sociale et de la Protection des Populations, Tarbes, France
• Lleytons Law Firm, comparative law, Valencia, Spain UNESCO Ha Noï Office (volunteer), Viet Nam

Master 2 in Economic Cooperation and International Business Law, University of Bordeaux, France, in partnership with the Vietnam National University, Vietnam

Master 1 in International Law, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France, in joint diploma with the University of Valencia, Spain

Spanish bachelor’s in law, University of Valencia, Spain, in joint diploma with the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France French bachelor’s in law, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France, in joint diploma with the University of Valencia, Spain