Cedric Manara has been working on internet-related legal issues for more than twelve years. In 1995 he wrote the first French Master thesis on private law and the Internet, and has analyzed French or foreign cases which relate to that topic since then. He works as a consultant for e-commerce companies or law firms.
Cedric Manara is also an expert in intellectual property. In 2005 he was an invited researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo. The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice wrote he is “one of the liveliest and most influential intellectual property educators and opinion-makers to emerge from France in recent years”.
Cédric Manara also works on marketing-related legal issues (online or offline). He is the author of a book on Marketing and Law.
In 1999, Cedric Manara was appointed by EDHEC Business School (France), where he mostly works on these issues. Since 2000 he has been head columnist for Dalloz, a prominent French law publisher, for which he is in charge of the electronic commerce section. In 2004, he worked at Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia.
He is, or has been, expert to European or French institutions.

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