Liisi Jürgen | NJORD Law Firm

Areas of expertise

Partner Liisi Jürgen heads NJORD Law Firm’s IT law practice. Liisi Jürgen is an attorney at law at NJORD and a visiting lecturer at Estonia’s oldest and most established university – University of Tartu. Her main subject is E-Commerce and IT Contracts. Liisi Jürgen is specialized in legal issues regarding data protection, e-commerce, electronic signatures (incl. legal issues arising from authentication and e-ID), consumer protection, product development. Liisi has advised clients on general corporate, and Healthtech matters. In 2015-2016 Liisi was a member of a work group responsible for the development of the electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions act, set up by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. In 2015, Liisi Jürgen finalized her second Master’s degree in Law at the University of Münster in Germany. The topic of her thesis is Electronic Signatures according to the EU law. She has a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Law from University of Tartu.

Public speaking engagements

2015- Guest Lecturer of IT Law programme at University of Tartu (Teaching e-commerce and IT-contract law in a University program (LLM) held in English)

01.03.2018 Training on the new GDPR. RMP

2015 Trust Services, Electronic Transactions, and Electronic Signatures, ITECHLAW, San Diego

2014 Legal aspects of electronic signature in EU, Vilnius

2014 Cross-border use of electronic signature, FOC 2014 Tallinn

2014 Legal meaning of electronic Signature, Comex 2014 Oman

Publications

"Blockchain’s Forever Memory Confounds EU ´Right to Be Forgotten´". Bloomberglaw.com, 03.08.2022, quoted
"Legal experts: The Digital Markets Act, to be created by the European Commission, needs to be reconsidered". err.ee, 02.03.2021.
"TOLERATING CRITICISM - A NEW CHALLENEGE FOR LEADERS?" njordlaw.com, 03.02.2021.
"The hybrid smart contract agreement challenge to European electronic signature regulation”. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Spring 2020.
"How to increase company value through careful strategic planning?" Focus, 2/2018.
"Handwritten signatures vs. e-signatures“. Rmp.ee, 26.03.2018.
"101 on cyber hygiene – from the perspective of mothers, fathers and employers". Rmp.ee, 26.02.2018; Ärileht, 06.03.2018.
"The private sector was reluctant to accept the e-signature". Äripäev, 14.10.2016.
"Cross-border e-signature – everyone has heard, few use". Äripäev, 27.06.2014.
"Pensions from several EU countries". Äripäev, 24.04.2012.
Collection on labour law in Europe: "Arbeitsrecht in Europa". Author of the chapter for Estonian law. 2011, Köln (collection in German).