Cédric Manara, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Law at EDHEC (featured by the Financial Times among the top business schools in Europe). His primary teaching and research interests concern intellectual property in the digital age and before, and electronic business law. In 2010, he received a Google Research Award.

Since 2000, Prof. Manara is head columnist for Dalloz, a prominent francophone law review, where he regularly publishes comments on internet related cases. He has published numerous articles in French and foreign law reviews.

Cédric Manara serves as counsel to prominent firms and governmental agencies in his field of expertise.
He is also a domain dispute resolution panelist (Arbitration Center for .eu Disputes, Prague, Czech Republic, Belgian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration, Brussels, Belgium, and Regional Center for Arbitration, Kuala-Lupur, Malaysia). He is listed in the EU Directory of Academic Experts in the field of Consumer Policy and Consumer Affairs.

In 2004 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Law and Public Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law (Philadelphia, PA, USA), in 2005 an invited researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property (Tokyo, Japan), in 2009 a visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), in Spring 2010 a visiting professor at LUISS (Rome), and an affilate researcher at the IPR University Center (Finland) from August 2010 to April 2011.

In 2012 he published a 500 pages book on domain names law. He is now finishing another one on e-commerce law.

Specialties: Electronic commerce and Law, Intellectual Property Law, Law & Marketing