If you're in NY next week on Monday - drop by at New York University School of Law at 4.45pm for a high class panel on the changing state of international governance.
We'll talk with H Aust, J Gathii, MJ Durkee, M Koskenniemi, and S Nouwen.
More info & RSVP: www.iilj.org/events/law-a...
A picture of a snowy street in Lvi with city lights
If you sometimes wonder where to look for hope in 2026, amid constant news of crisis in democracy and international law, I would suggest this: look to Ukraine. 🇺🇦
My editorial for @verfassungsblog.de on Lviv — and what we can learn from this city:
verfassungsblog.de/laboratorium...
IT’S HAPPENING!
Just sent the proofs to CUP - book due 3/2026. It’s a comprehensive sociolegal study of Art 21 DSA & @oversightboard.bsky.social.
Teaches A LOT about future governance, institutional performativity & contested relevance of public law as framework for whatever lies ahead.
IT’S HAPPENING!
Just sent the proofs to CUP - book due 3/2026. It’s a comprehensive sociolegal study of Art 21 DSA & @oversightboard.bsky.social.
Teaches A LOT about future governance, institutional performativity & contested relevance of public law as framework for whatever lies ahead.
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
Out now — die Ergebnisse des Justiz-Projekts.💥
Ein Jahr Arbeit, rund 70 Gespräche mit Expertinnen und Experten, in denen wir der Frage nachgegangen sind: Wie verwundbar ist die deutsche Justiz?
Ab sofort Open Access verfügbar: verfassungsblog.de/book/das-jus... 🔗
Antizipation beginnt jetzt.
Release Day für das Justiz-Projekt!
Hier ist ein Jahr Arbeit in fünf Minuten zusammengefasst: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/angriffe-von...
Quick intro to my forthcoming book (CUP, 2026): Through two socio-legal case studies—DSA and the Oversight Board—I trace how public-law ideas are reproduced in both private and regulatory governance for Big Tech, highlighting the promise & pitfalls of this approach. Join at 8:15am EST / 2:15pm CET!
Morgen veröffentlichen wir die Ergebnisse des Justiz-Projektes @verfassungsblog.de!
Auf über 330 Seiten gehen wir der Frage nach, wie verwundbar die deutsche Justiz gegenüber autoritären Populisten ist.
Spoiler: Antizipation beginnt jetzt!
@claraigk.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @robyncaplan.bsky.social @joaomagalhaessp.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social
Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
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Jeder Euro zählt. ❤️ Sichern Sie mit uns gemeinsam das Fundament der Demokratie – Text für Text.
Im DLF Hintergrund durfte ich ausgiebig über die Themen des Justiz-Projekts sprechen: Inwiefern Delegitimierungsstrategien bereits jetzt greifen, wo mögliche Einfallstore liegen und warum man sich dagegen nicht in eine Wagenburg zurückziehen kann.
will do!
Many thanks to Oreste Pollicino, Giovanni De Gregorio, and Peggy Valcke for including me :))
here's the doi: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
In essence, those are, in my humble opinion, more empirics, more admin law perspectives, more postcolonial perspectives, and overall caution with constitutional metaphors.
Global Constitutionalism, another major scholarly project, examining global power structures through the lens of—and driven by the aspiration for—constitutional order.
The comparison with digital constitutionalism then highlights potential avenues for further research.
abstract: Eventually, many scholarly approaches that mix a descriptive programme with a normative agenda face a delicate question: what if the thing written about for years does not (fully) transpire? Today, public law is a crucial discursive reference point in international politics and global constitutionalism a widely known scholarly approach thereof. However, despite prevalent talk about constitutional principles in global governance, aspirations of a liberal world order gave way to confrontation, tribalism, and cynicism. Simply put, the promise of global constitutionalism has not fully materialized. So, what can digital constitutionalism, a new scholarly approach that mixes description with desire, learn from global constitutionalism? Apart from several already learned fundamentals, this chapter focuses on what digital constitutionalism might learn from global constitutionalism’s current moment of introspection. Concretely, the chapter presents four lessons, all of which build on critiques of global constitutionalism, which may be, in the future, relevant for digital constitutionalism as well. These lessons are: a stronger empirical footing, a broader focus that includes administrative dimensions, less constitutional metaphors, and more disciplinary and scholarly diversity.
Digital Constitutionalism has become a widespread analytical framework and linguistic toolbox for studying digitization, particularly in Europe.
In the recently published Oxford Handbook on Digital Constitutionalism, I reflect on some of its discursive continuities with...
Here’s the link (cover will follow, currently scrambling to get the rights for the painting I intend to use 🙃): www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Out in March 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org —and it’ll be fully open access. 📖✨
I owe thanks to countless people who supported this project—more personal thank-yous will follow soon.
The thesis: today’s governance of globally powerful corporations borrows from public law paradigms—rights, review, due process. Using content moderation as a test case, the book draws general insights into the future governance of private power in an ever more privatised world.
Big news: my book is (finally) coming out! 🎉
Based on exclusive interviews with EU lawmakers, @oversightboard.bsky.social & other key players, it explores how regulators, corporations & new actors experiment in private & regulatory governance by emulating public law classics.
The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social
3 year postdoc in Tübingen in Law and Tech with the excellent Michele Finck! www.ailaw-tuebingen.eu/vacancy-for-...
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@NYers - I have 3 very good concert tickets for Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sold out, v nice atmospheric post-rock, can't go myself unfortunately) @PioneerWorks in Brooklyn on June 26, 2025.
Hit me up if you're interested 👻🤟
have a listen👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=55CL...
Semi-structured interviewing is an ever-more common method in (sociolegal) research.
Yet, few lawyers are trained in social scientific methods.
Hopefully, this piece answers some initial methodological questions and/or makes more people curious about interviews as method in legal research!
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and again with proper poster! Join us next week on Wednesday! 🤓
Join us via @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin on Wed, 14 May at 6pm to discuss the @oversightboard.bsky.social's future under Trump and Silicon Valley's political shift.
w/ Board members & academics.
Will be good!
www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/rhp...
Briefly escaped funding apps & bar exam prep to give a small class on admin perspectives on global law @CatolicaLisbon—more a reflective pause than anything bigger, but a good reminder (I hope) not to lose the global picture amid the domestic mess.
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Thanks @Giovanni De Gregorio & students!
