Saulius Kalėda

Judge at General Court

Speaker

Saulius Lukas Kalėda is a Judge at the General Court of the European Union since 27 September 2023 and a Professor at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University.

He has extensive experience in EU law and litigation, having served as a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service (2017-2023), where he was notably responsible for the EU’s digital legislation and, prior to that, as a Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the EU (2004-2017). He is a graduate of Vilnius University (Lithuania) and the University of Bonn (Germany), and holds a PhD in law from the Jagiellonian University (Poland).

He published on various topics of EU substantive and procedural law, focusing on the EU regulation and remedies in the area of new technologies. He has recently co-authored, with Folkert Wilman and Paul-John Loewenthal, The EU Digital Services Act: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2024).