Mark Cole

Mark D. Cole is Professor for Media and Telecommunication Law at the University of Luxembourg since 2007 and Director for academic Affairs at the Institute of European Media Law (EMR) in Saarbrücken since 2014. At the University of Luxembourg he is also Faculty Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and Affiliate to the Institute of Digital
Ethics (ULIDE) as well as Study Programme Director for the Master in Space, Communication and Media Law and speaker for the Research Area in Technology Law at the Department of Law.

He is member of the Advisory Committee of the Luxembourg Independent Media Authority (Autorité luxembourgeoise indépendante de l’audiovisuel, ALIA), Co-Director of the Institute of Legal Informatics (Institut für Rechtsinformatik) at the Universität des Saarlandes and takes seat in the Advisory Committee of the European Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe.

He is appointed (2026-27) to the Council’s Committee of Experts on Media Regulators in a Platform-Based Environment (MSI-eREG), and was previously (2020-21) in the Committee of Experts on Media Environment and Reform (MSI-REF) as well as one of eight experts to the Future Council (“Zukunftsrat”) for the German Public Service Broadcasting on behalf of the Länder Broadcasting Committee in 2023-24.

He specialises in European and Comparative Media Law, covering the whole range of the regulatory framework for both traditional mass media as well as the law of the new information technologies which includes data protection, intellectual property law, cyberlaw and AI law; he has a research focus on the EU AVMSD / Digital Single Market regulatory framework (www.medialaw.lu). He studied law and political science and holds a doctorate from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (2003) as well as both German State Examinations in Law (1998/2004). He gained practical experience in media law at the DG Competition of the European Commission, a law office specialising in Intellectual Property Law and the legal department of a television broadcaster. Before joining the University of Luxembourg he had positions at the Chair in Public Law, Public International and European Law, Media Law in Mainz, the Mainz
Media Institute, the TU Braunschweig; he continues to teach in an LL.M. programme in Media Law in Mainz.

Mark D. Cole is co-editor/-author of the publications “Medienstaatsvertrag/Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag – Heidelberger Kommentar”, “Europäisches und Internationales Medienrecht” and annually of one edition of the IRIS Special of the European Audiovisual Observatory; he is co-founder and associate editor of EdpL (European Data Protection Law Review), UFITA (Archiv für Medienrecht und Medienwissenschaft) and AIRe (Journal of AI Law and Regulation), co-editor of Revue du Droit des Technologies de l’Information (R.D.T.I.) and International Journal of Law and Information Technology (IJLIT) as well as a number of book series.
Prof. Cole has published and guest lectured in many European countries and the U.S. and is a regular speaker at international  conferences, on subjects of Media, ICT and Data Protection Law as well as Public International Law and European Law and regularly contributes as expert to the work of public institutions on EU and national level.