July 26-27, 1999
Montreal, Canada

Speaker Biography

Mike Pullen

Associate
Dibb Lupton Alsop

Mike Pullen is an Associate in the Dibb Lupton Alsop Brussels Office. He specialises in EU regulatory and competition law with a particular emphasis on E-commerce, media convergence, data protection and commercial communications (advertising, direct marketing, sponsorship etc). Mike also advises Central and Eastern European Governments on bringing their laws into line with EU internal market law as a prerequisite for their membership of the EU.

He is legal counsel to Medecins sans Frontieres (a leading humanitarian aid organisation) on a pro bono basis.

Mike has an LLB from the University of Lancaster and an LLM in EU and international trade law from the University of Brussels. He is visiting lecturer at the University of Brussels and the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Mike is a member of the American Bar Association's Taskforce on Electronic Commerce. He is also news editor of International Trade Law and Regulation.

Before joining Dibb Lupton Alsop Mike some time working in the unit with responsibility for drafting the E-commerce directive in DGXV of the European Commission.

Mike has spoken and written widely on the free movement of goods and services in the EU internal market, E-commerce, advertising, trans-border television broadcasting and a number of other EU and trade related legal issues.