Legal Affairs

The Legal Affairs office provides EPFL’s middle and upper management with expert legal support. We are involved in the School’s strategic projects, ensuring they comply with all applicable legal requirements. We also play a role in drafting agreements, anticipating changes to the law and raising awareness of legal issues, as well as in conflict and risk management.

Other services include publishing laws and directives that apply to EPFL, drawing up new directives, and overseeing the development of new applications (such as for electronic signatures and managing contracts).

Legal Affairs also includes a team of Legal Counsels specialized in the fields of education and research. The aim of this team is to provide legal support to the units of the Academic Vice-Presidency for their activities relating to education, research and technology transfer. Its mission is to provide information on the laws, directives and procedures applicable to EPFL activities, to set up appropriate legal frameworks for collaborations with external partners (public or private), to prevent legal problems and to provide objective and relevant opinions or advice, in order to help EPFL teaching staff, students and researchers to achieve their teaching, research and technology transfer objectives.

The Director of Legal Affairs coordinates a Legal Network comprising all EPFL Legal Counsels, including those attached to Human Resources, as well as the Data Protection Advisor.

Team

Legal Affairs

Françoise Chardonnens : Director of Legal Affairs

Sonia Gander Henguely : Deputy of Director of Legal Affairs

Sarah Marti : Senior Legal Counsel

Géraldine Guédon : Administrative Assistant

David Gozel : Project Manager

Specialized Legal Counsels for the education and research sectors

Melissa Magnenat: Head of Unit

Legal Counsel for the Domain of Education

Denise Flury Poffet: Legal Counsel

Frédéric George: Legal Counsel

Lorraine Dalang: Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel for the Domain of Research and Technology Transfer

Elena Bourtchouladze: Legal Counsel

Beatriz Burgos Lorenzo: Legal Counsel

Agathe Chamary: Legal Counsel

Valentin Conrad: Legal Counsel

Tania Germond: Legal Counsel

Hervé Ghellaï: Legal Counsel