Leona King

Leona is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven, funded by a PhD Fellowship for Fundamental Research from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Her research examines the intersection of copyright and data protection law in the context of generative AI, with a particular focus on the legality of data scraping involving both personal and non-personal data. Using Large Language Models (LLMs) as a case study, she investigates whether a unified concept of data can be developed across legal domains - addressing a pressing gap in EU digital scholarship and governance.
Before embarking on her PhD, Leona contributed to several EU-funded initiatives, including the Preparatory Action for a European Mobility Data Space and the Data Spaces Support Centre, where she focused on the legal and governance frameworks underpinning Common European Data Spaces.