Dr Christina Angelopoulos was awarded Proxime Accessit in the ELFA Award 2016 for her thesis on “European Intermediary Liability in Copyright”.

The thesis was written at IViR from 2011 to 2015 and publicly defended in Amsterdam in April 2016. In November 2016, it was published as part of the Information Law Series of Kluwer Law International.

The award is organised annually by the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) and is dedicated to theses in European law (including comparative law).

The winners of the ELFA Award 2016 were announced and awarded during the ELFA AGM and Conference 2017 held from 19 to 21 April in Brno, Czech Republic.