Tanel Kerikmäe is a professor of European Legal Policy and Law & Tech at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), and he has a worldwide experience from different universities in teaching and research. Tanel has been invited visiting professor in Europe and Asia. He is honorary professor at HCMC University of Law and holds a title of doctor honoris causaat National University of Law in Kharkiv, acting also as a foreign member of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. Tanel is also foreign member of the Centre of Robotics, AI and Law at National University Singapore. He is also a member of the Nordic association Law, Technology and Design Thinking Research Group (L.T.D.T).

Tanel is founder and head of TalTech law school and is known as a designer of new type of legal education that is international and interdisciplinary. Most of his research activities are related to law & technology issues. Tanel is a member of excellent academic network in the field and has been a PI for solid amount of research and capacity building projects with top experts over the world.