Maxime Fanna

Law, read as code. Code, read as law.

European and digital law graduate (UCLouvain, 2026), after ten years of software development. Based in Walloon Brabant — Brussels and Luxembourg within reach. Available immediately.

Whereas:

  1. the texts that govern Europe's digital sphere (DMA, DSA, AI Act, GDPR) cannot be settled in law alone, nor in engineering alone;
  2. ten years of software development teach what systems actually do, beyond what their documentation claims;
  3. a Master of Laws in European law from UCLouvain, concluded by a dissertation on the messaging interoperability mandated by the Digital Markets Act, teaches what the texts actually require, beyond what their titles announce;
  4. the same file is worth reading twice: once as an architecture, once as a contract.

I. — Background

  1. 2026 Law + code

    Master's dissertation, written in English

    The challenges of the interoperability of messaging services required by the DMA. Article 7(3) requires end-to-end encryption to survive interoperability: a question that is legal and technical at once.

  2. 2024–2026 Law

    Master of Laws in European law, UCLouvain

    Specialised track; options in intellectual property and digital law.

  3. 2021–2024 In between

    Reception office, Faculty of Law and Criminology

    Regulatory guidance to students; files arising from a change of decree.

  4. 2020–2024 Law

    Bachelor of Laws, UCLouvain

    Minor in scientific culture.

  5. 2020–2021 In between

    Distance-learning support, UCLouvain

    Rollout and support of remote-teaching tools during the pandemic, for the Faculty of Law.

  6. 2015–2019 Code

    OpenClassrooms certificates

    Software and web development, alongside the practice.

  7. 2012–2019 Code

    Freelance developer

    Bespoke websites and applications: specifications, development, client relations.

  8. 2010–2016 Code

    Tom's Guide

    Moderator, then administrator of a French-speaking tech community: rules, arbitration, disputes.

II. — Practice areas

Platform regulation
DMA and DSA: gatekeeper and very-large-platform obligations, from the text to its implementation.
Interoperability and security
Where obligation meets architecture: encryption, APIs, access and ranking conditions.
Artificial intelligence
AI Act: system qualification, provider and deployer obligations.
Data protection
GDPR, spoken fluently on both sides: the lawyer's and the database's.
Intellectual property
Software, databases, content: ownership, licences, exceptions.
Union law
Institutional and substantive: how the texts work, from proposal to judgment.

III. — Writing

Reading notes, legal and technical at once, on the texts that govern Europe's digital sphere. Published right here, no middleman.

First notes in preparation.

IV. — Built work

V. — Contact

A file where law and engineering answer each other? Let's talk.

Bonlez, Walloon Brabant. Mobile across Brussels, Wallonia and Luxembourg.

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