About Our 2023 Presenters & Panelists

The Hon. John Browning

The Hon. John Browning is a former Texas appellate justice and a nationally recognized thought leader on technology and the law. He serves as distinguished jurist in residence at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama, and chairs the Institute for Law & Technology at the Center for American and International Law. Browning is the author of several law books on social media and the law as well as dozens of law review articles on subjects at the intersection of law and technology.

Andrew Chin

Andrew Chin joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2001 and serves as the Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law. His teaching and research interests include intellectual property, antitrust, technology, business, contract, and election law. Prior to law teaching, Chin taught mathematics, computer science and statistics. His writings continue to apply novel quantitative approaches to adjudicating and analyzing issues across diverse legal fields. He has authored and filed numerous amicus curiae briefs in major cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Susanna Guffey

Susanna Guffey is a senior director of business and legal affairs at Universal Music Group in New York. She is responsible for a broad range of technology-related commercial transactions and provides legal support and advice across UMG’s central business teams including eCommerce, marketing and security. She holds an LL.M. in intellectual property from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is a 2013 graduate of Elon University School of Law.

Danielle Hardy

Danielle B. Hardy is a New York-based entertainment attorney and in-house counsel for Warner Music Group. As director of business & legal affairs for Warner’s frontline label Warner Records, Hardy handles record deals, license agreements, brand partnership deals, and more for a roster of superstar artists including Cher, Dua Lipa, and Green Day. Prior to Warner Music, Hardy served as counsel of business & legal affairs at Universal Music Group. The Maryland native graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University with a Bachelor of Science in legal studies and earned her Juris Doctor from Elon Law in 2018. Hardy is the founder & CEO of Pursuing the Esquire, LLC, an organization that supports aspiring minority lawyers get to and through law school through mentorship.

Eddie Holder

Attorney Eddie M. Holder is a 2013 graduate of Elon University School of Law and is licensed in the state of North Carolina. He is also licensed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney. Holder earned his undergraduate degree in computer science from Winston-Salem State University and holds a Master of Business Administration from Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management. Prior to law school, Eddie performed server systems analysis and network architecture work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, North Carolina Baptist Memorial Hospital, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, and Wells Fargo Bank.

Edward Lee

Edward Lee is a professor of law and co-director of Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Center for Design, Law, and Technology. He founded The Free Internet Project, a nonprofit whose mission is to protect Internet freedoms. His work has been featured in outlets such as the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Billboard. He worked on public interest litigation as an attorney for Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. Lee’s current research focuses on AI’s intersection with copyright laws. He is the author of the book “Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment”, published by Harper Business.

Sarah Rajec

Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec is a professor of law at William & Mary Law School. She writes in the fields of patent law and international intellectual property law, and she is a coauthor of “Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook” (2021). Rajec graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School after earning her Bachelor of Science with honors from Brown University, where she majored in physics. Before entering the academy, Rajec practiced patent litigation and served as a law clerk to judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has also held positions at Stanford Law School and George Washington University Law School.

Elizabeth Townsend Gard

Elizabeth Townsend Gard is the John E. Koerner Endowed Professor of Law and founding director of the Tulane Center for IP, Media & Culture, and deputy faculty director of the Masters of Jurisprudence Labor and Employment Law Program. She specializes in intellectual property law, including copyright, trademark, and comparative intellectual property; and entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship, solopreneurs, and handcraft-entrepreneurs. Townsend Gard is the co-inventor and director of the Durationator®, a software system that aims to determine the worldwide copyright status of every kind of cultural work. She also co-owns the Tulane spin-out company, Limited Times, which is commercializing the Durationator® software and services.

Dr. Vladimir Troitsky

Vladimir Troitskiy is a JD, PhD, and MBA holder with expertise in international law, international technical regulations, law and technology, and cross-border taxation. He earned his first law degree from St Petersburg University in 2002, his PhD in 2007, and his MBA from Columbia University in New York in 2014. Troitskiy currently serves as the managing partner at Lex International Law Firm, a Miami-based boutique consulting group with offices in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Previously, he worked as a corporate representative and in-house lawyer in major international corporations. Troitskiy is a regular participant in international conferences on topics of law and technology. He has authored more than 35 articles published across eight countries in three languages.