Philippe Coen

VP Attorney EU the Disney Company NGO Respect Zone founder

"Philippe is the General Secretary of www.unifab.com, a French IP association protecting counterfeit. He is the Honorary President of ECLA (www.ecla.eu). ECLA is the umbrella association gathering 20 European company lawyers associations, amounting to 67,000 company lawyers altogether. Among other initiatives, he prompted ECLANEWS, ECLACHANNEL, the ECLA Code of Ethics for Company Lawyers, and the White Paper “Independent by design” and an online database on Legal Privilege across Europe. Philippe founded the Ethical Committee of the Company Lawyers profession in France and is a Vice-President with the In-House Counsel Worldwide association (ICW). Before practicing as a General Counsel and government affairs specialist, Philippe started his career in private practice in NYC with an International British law firm where he qualified. He then lead the competition law practice of a French law firm. He earned a double JD at the Paris Sorbonne and a post-grad degree (LL.M.) from the Harvard Law School (with a scholarship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs). He has taught various law topics including anti-trust and IP at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris X, and currently teaches anti-trust law at the international post-grad Business school named ESSEC and media law at Paris 2 Assas. He pens from time to time published essays and legal chronicles in various periodicals. He founded an anti-bullying NGO: www.respectzone.org developing CSR and soft law tools leveraging the use of IP laws. RespectZone has been adopted in particular by AFJE, the Paris Bar, Unesco, TF1, MSN, Free, various schools, and many individual users. He wrote two books about law, ethics, and the Internet, selected for the Edgar Faure Prize in France. He is the Director of the Respect Zone Law Clinic for Digital Human Rights of Paris Dauphine http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/?page_id=167"