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. Natalia Menéndez González 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.

Training Courses

• New trends in digital regulation

Recent research output

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;BOTTA, Marco
  International transfers of personal v. non-personal data: reconstructing the EU legal puzzle - Article

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;LEVANTINO, Francesco Paolo;VERZA, Sofia;TREVISAN, Stefano
  'Face the facts' : examining the use of facial recognition technology by news outlets through human rights lenses - Article

• Authors: CARLINI, Roberta;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;SCHIFFRIN, Anya
  How to update EU and US copyright regimes in the age of AI - Working Paper

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;MOBILIO, Giuseppe
  Between prohibited risks and high risks : the regulation of facial recognition technology - Contribution to book

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia
  Technical solutions for a proportional use of Facial Recognition Technology - Contribution to book

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;MOBILIO, Giuseppe
  Facial Recognition Technology and the challenges to democratic systems : an introduction - Contribution to book

• Authors: PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;PARCU, Pier Luigi;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra;BOTTA, Marco;MAZZONI, Leonardo;GALLI, Niccolò;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;SIGNORETTA, Camilla
  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

• Authors: 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
  CDS position statement on the UK Intellectual Property Office's consultation on standard essential patents - Working Paper

• Authors: CHOŁODECKI, Mateusz;PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;PARCU, Pier Luigi;BOTTA, Marco;MAZZONI, Leonardo;GALLI, Niccolò;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra
  CDS position statement on the European Commission's call for evidence for an impact assessment on the EU Delivery Act - Working Paper

• Editors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;MOBILIO, Giuseppe
  Next democratic frontiers for Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) : the legal, ethical and democratic implications of FRT - Book