Uroš Ćemalović is a legal expert with over twenty years of postgraduate professional and research experience in intellectual property law, EU law, environmental law, artificial intelligence, and law and technology. His career spans both private and public sectors.
He served (2022–2025) as principal investigator on the project ‘Regulatory and Ethical Evaluation of the Outputs of AI-Based Text-to-Image Tools,’ carried out at the Institute of European Studies (Belgrade, Serbia), and EU Intellectual Property Office (Alicante, Spain).
In May 2024, the Future of Life Institute (FLI) selected his project, ‘AI and Education on Climate Change Mitigation – From the King Midas Problem to a Golden Opportunity?,’ as a winner in its ‘Evaluating the Impact of AI on Poverty, Health, Energy and Climate SDGs’ call for proposals.
Dr. Ćemalović holds master’s degrees from Université Paris-Dauphine and the University of Nancy (France) and earned his PhD from the University of Strasbourg (France) in 2010.
In November 2019, he was awarded with the WIPO’s (World Intellectual Property Organization) Medal for Creativity for his book “Intellectual Property Law and Digital Transformation – Some Current Issues”.
Dr. Ćemalović serves or has served as a senior legal expert for different international organizations, agencies, foundations, and initiatives – such as, among others, UNDP, OSCE, SEECP, and Konrad Adenauer Foundation – as well as within various EU-funded initiatives, including EU IPA twinning projects. He was an Erasmus+ visiting professor or guest lecturer at several European universities (LUISS, Rome; New Bulgarian University, Sofia; Université catholique de Lille), as well as a keynote speaker, visiting fellow, or paper presenter at numerous events in different countries.
Dr. Ćemalović is the author and editor of several monographs on intellectual property law, digital transformation, and environmental law, as well as numerous chapters in collective volumes and articles in peer-reviewed journals across multiple countries. He speaks Serbo-Croatian (mother tongue), French (C2), and English (C2), and has basic knowledge of Spanish and German.
Latest publications:
- ‘Letting sleeping wasps lie: general-purpose AI models and copyright protection under the European Union AI Act’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, 2026
- ‘Environmental contradictions in the EU accession process: lessons from a lithium mining project in Serbia’, Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, Taylor & Francis, 2025
- ‘Prohibited artificial intelligence practices according to Article 5 of the European Union’s regulation on AI – between the ‘too late’ and the ‘not enough’, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Oxford University Press, 2024
