Roberto L. López-Dávila
Belize Street, E-**, Altos de Torrimar
Bayamón, Puerto Rico (USA) 00959 Tel. 787-***-**** ***************@******.***
https://pr.linkedin.com/in/roberto-l-lopez-davila-b7aa2314 EDUCATION Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Master in Telecommunications & Information
Technology Law (LL.M.): December 2006
GPA: 9.5 Outstanding (Spain’s equivalent to
Summa Cum Laude) Ranked 1st in class
University of Puerto Rico
School of Law, Río Piedras
Campus Juris Doctor:
May1999
Magna Cum Laude GPA: 3.55
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) major in Sociology:
May1996 Summa Cum Laude GPA: 3.97
University College Cork, Ireland
eLaw Summer Institute Certificate
July 2-20,2012 GPA:3.66
CERTIFICATIONS Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Bar Examination, January 2000
& DIPLOMAS
ForHumanity AI Certified Auditor
(FHCA) on UK/EU General Data
Protection Regulation (Issued Jul 2022)
Artificial Intelligence Policy -Advance
Certification
Center for AI and Digital Policy
(Washington, D.C.) (April 2022)
Certified eDiscovery Master
eDiscovery Education Center (Feb.
2022)
Artificial Intelligence Policy -Basic
Certification
Center for AI and Digital Policy
(Washington, D.C.) (December 2021)
Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP)
The International Association of
Privacy Professionals (June, 2021)
•License 34180831
Certified Information Privacy Manager
(CIPM) The International Association
of Privacy Professionals (May, 2021)
•License 1030321
Certified Information Privacy Professional/United
States, Private Sector (CIPP/US) The International Association of Privacy Professionals (June, 2016)
•License 10240926
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe
(CIPP/E) The International Association of Privacy
Professionals (Feb, 2023)
•License 67851669
Cybersecurity Fundamentals Certificate (CSX-F)
ISACA, Jul 2018 - Present •License 2018-
1015057-CSXF
Diploma of Higher Specialization in Legal Tech
and Digital Transformation, Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain (June, 2021)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jan. 2022 - June. 2022 Counseling to the National Center for State Courts, on a short-term, contractual basis, on the privacy and cybersecurity risks associated with victims’ communications with the courts and other service providers as part of a domestic violence educational project the institution developed with the financial support of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Nov. 2014 – Present Legal Adviser at the Office of Legislation and Regulations, Office of Court Administration of
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
-Drafting of written submissions to legislative
chambers and their committees regarding draft
bills, resolutions and acts with implications to the judicial branch and/or judicial processes.
-Testified at and delivered statements to
legislative committees regarding draft bills
pertaining to judicial matters.
-Drafting of regulations regarding a wide array of legal, administrative and policy matters which are internal to the judicial system, as well as those
derived from the institutional relationship between the judicial branch and the other branch of
government.
- Provide counseling on privacy and cybersecurity
strategies and policies; information and data
governance practices; on the benefits and risks on emerging technologies as applied to the judicial
real (including A.I.); provided technical and policy assessments for the acquisition of technologies
through procurement processes
Oct. 2004 – Oct. 2014 Special Assistant to the Administrative Director of the Office of Court Administration
of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Hon. Sonia
Ivette Vélez Colón
-Provided direct counseling to the Administrative
Director on legal and policy issues pertaining to
the administration of the courts at a statewide
level, including provision of support, counseling
and leadership to ejustice and justicetech projects.
-Drafting of reports and special research on wide
array of legal and policy issues. Collaborated in
outreach efforts with US federal and states judicial systems, as well as with courts systems from
abroad.
March 2000 – Sept. 2004 Law Clerk to Judge Sonia Ivette Vélez Colón, Superior Judge of the Court of First Instance,
Extraordinary Writs Section, San Juan Judicial
Region; Bayamón Judicial Region
-Provided legal research, drafting of legal
memorandums, as well as drafting of judicial
orders, and judgments for the consideration of the court.
-Handled day-to-day management of court record
cases.
May 1999 – Nov. 1999 Legal Research Assistant to Demetrio Fernández Quiñones, Professor in Civil and Labor Law,
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
-Provided research, memorandums and citation
corrections in support of professor’s scholarship
endeavors.
-Assisted with professor’s class logistics, test
administrations and other guiding activities
1997 – 1999 Legal Research Assistant to Pedro Silva-Ruíz, Professor in Civil Law, University of Puerto Rico
School of Law
-Provided research, memorandums and citation
corrections in support of professor’s scholarship
endeavors.
-Assisted with professor’s class logistics, test
administrations and other guiding activities
SPECIAL PROJECTS
& ASSIGNMENTS Involved in several eJustice and business process initiatives within the Judicial Branch
of Puerto Rico. Member of the Executive
Committee of the Strategic Plan of the
Judicial Branch of Puerto Rico, 2016-2019.
Contributor with other authors within the
Big Science framework in the curation of
the dataset on which the BLOOM project is
based, the first multilingual LLM trained in
complete transparency (Paper published Nov.
2022)
Contributor to the Task Force on
Responsible Use of Generative AI for Law,
convened by law.MIT.edu, with the aim of
crafting model principles and best practices
for the ethical and responsible use of
Generative AI by lawyers
Collaborated with the editorial board of the
International Journal for Court
Administration in reviewing draft articles for
publication
Volunteered (from 2019 to 2021) as a
KnowledgeNet co-chair of a region chapter
of the International Association of Privacy
Professionals (the largest and most
influential global privacy community)
hosting events and fostering dialogues at the
intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, AI
and law
RELEVANT
PUBLICATIONS
“BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual
Language Model BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter
Open-Access Multilingual Language Model”, Arxiv ·
Nov 9, 2022 (Contributor)
“Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental
Values Index 2021”, Center for AI
and Digital Policy, Feb 21, 2022
(Draft and research contributor)
“Ante la Inteligencia Artificial y Valores
Democráticos”, Mar 13, 2023 Microjuris (In
Spanish)
“Legal Tech: ventana para modernizar la
profesión legal y potenciar el acceso a la
justicia”, Mar 21, 2021 Microjuris, Al DIA
(In Spanish)
“Nuevas tecnologías y abogacía
puertorriqueña: Análisis breve acerca de sus
implicaciones sobre la profesión en el marco
del proyecto de Código de Conducta
Profesional de Puerto Rico” (A three part
series, from Sept. 2019 to March 2020)
Microjuris, Al DIA (In Spanish)
“La Profesión Jurídica Puertorriqueña en la Era
Global y Digital: Comentarios al Proyecto de
Código de Conducta Profesional”, 84 Rev. Jur.
UPR 1025 (2015) (in Spanish)
“Bases de Datos Policiales de ADN para fines de
Investigación Criminal: el Modelo Español”, 67
Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico
55 (2006) (in Spanish).
RELEVANT CONTINUING
LEGAL EDUCATION &
CONFERENCES
• 7th Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law
2002: Engineering Data Regulation in an Age of
Reform, Brussels Privacy Hub, Brussels,
Belgium (27 June to 1 July, 2022).
• 2014 American Bar Association Information
Governance, Electronic Discovery and Digital
Evidence National Institute held at Stetson’s
Tampa Law Center in Tampa, Florida, USA
(January 28-31, 2014). • 10th Annual Advanced
eDiscovery Institute, Georgetown Law CLE,
Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner
• 10th Annual Advanced eDiscovery Institute,
Georgetown Law CLE, Ritz-Carlton, Tysons
Corner,3 Virginia, USA (November 21-22, 2013)
(conference devoted to the study, at an advanced
level, of the latest developments and coming
trends with regard to the fields of eDiscovery and Information Governance as applied to the legal
and judicial domains)
• #ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013, held at The
Computer History Museum, Mountain View,
California, USA (March 8, 2013) (conference
devoted to law, technology, innovation and
entrepreneurship in the legal services domain)
• International Summer School in Managing
Legal Resources in the Semantic Web,
University of Bologna, Faculty of Law,
Ravenna Campus, Italy (September 5-10,
2011) (program designed to provide basic
knowledge and skills on the most
common semantics standards, applications
and tools for the drafting and management
of legislative and legal documents)
•Gartner Business Process Management Summit
(September 16-19, 2007).
MEMBERSHIPS
Puerto Rico Bar Association; American Bar
Association, Science & Technology Section;
AI Policy Fellow, Center for AI and Digital
Policy, International Association for
Artificial Intelligence and Law; International
Association of Privacy Professionals,
Government Membership; The Association
for Intelligent Information Management;
Electronic Frontier Foundation; Internet
Society-PR; Centre for Legal Innovation,
Legalpreneurs Lab member.