Tanel Kerikmäe is Full Tenured Professor of European Legal policy and Law & Technology at the Tallinn University of Technology. Professor Kerikmäe is a well-known international lawyer and EU scholar who received his academic degrees in law and political science & governance from Tartu, Tallinn, Helsinki and educated himself also in Oxford, EUI, Turku, Cambridge, Strasbourg and Edinburgh. He serves also as a director of TalTech Law School and senior strategist of TalTech Legal Lab, an entrepreneurial hub that consults public and private sector all over the world.
Professor Kerikmäe is a board member of several high-ranked law journals (such as Baltic Yearbook of International Law), chief-editor of TalTech Journal of European Studies and an author of more than 150 articles and publications e.g., published by Ashgate, Martinus Nijhoff, Kluwer, Cambridge Press, Peter Lang, Lexis Nexis, Springer etc. He has been teaching in Nagoya university, Luzern university and was invited speaker for high level expert forums in Brussels, Tokyo, Beijing and elsewhere. He has been active as principal investigator and/or of several capacity building projects funded by EU in Eastern Partership countries, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Tanel is elected foreign member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and awarded with the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa at Jaroslav Mudryi National Law University and honorary professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law.