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!

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/...

Damit wir diese Arbeit weiterhin leisten können, brauchen wir Ihre Unterstützung: 💳 verfassungsblog.de/support 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.

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...

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-...

@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! 🤓☺️

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. 🤓☺️ Thanks @Giovanni De Gregorio & students!

On July 21st to 25th Michael Rosen and I will be teaching a 'Meisterkurs' on Accountability and Power in Berlin at the Humboldt University. Syllabus and details of how to register here. www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/...

Currently on a train in Belgium back to Berlin: surrounded by a gang of short-silver-haired grandmas who are cracking jokes, share cheese bread, send each other “stay positive” memes on WhatsApp, knit, and ostensibly flirt with the conductor. Among the most wholesome moments this year so far 🥹👵🏼☮️

Desk Work Music #4: spring is coming, time for ambient. check out this beautiful mix: on.soundcloud.com/xxgUUnQzfnNw...

Wer nur Zeit für einen Text zur Debatte rund um Sondervermögen und Schuldenbremse hat: Dieser Text von @meinel.bsky.social über den Versuch, den alten bundesrepublikanischen Industriekapitalismus zu konstitutionalisieren und die Schuldenbremse als gespenstisches Verfassungsrecht ist augenöffnend.

📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.

New Publication! 👻🤓 Curb Your Enthusiasm: Why Europe's Digital Reforms May Not Become A Global Standard ▶️ I think much of the DSA etc. stabilizes private ordering rather than introduces strict public regulation. The truly globalizing standards will be corporate-made rules - for better, or worse.

The Issue features insightful contributions by @rachelgriffin.bsky.social and @schrammmo.bsky.social, who both critically engage with different facets of the EU Digital Services Act and its approach to the concept of fairness, 3/

Thank you to the contributors, @rachelgriffin.bsky.social elgriffin.bsky.social @schrammmo.bsky.social y.social @hlahmann.bsky.social & Tsung-Ling Lee, & the EJLS editorial team for their hard work in helping make this Special Issue come together. Special Issue link: ejls.eui.eu/wp-content/u...

🚀 Neues Jahr – neue #Karriere? ⏰ Die Bewerbungsfrist für die Position als Head of Finance endet am 12.01.25! Ihr möchtet Verantwortung in einer sinnstiftenden Organisation übernehmen? 🌍💡 Dann bewerbt euch jetzt und werdet Teil unseres Teams! #Jobangebot 🔗 👉 verfassungsblog.de/wp-content/u...

📺-Tipp für die Feiertage: „Ein Volksbürger“ in der @artefr.bsky.social Mediathek! Das Theaterstück zum Thüringen-Projekt zeigt den rasanten Aufstieg eines populistischen Ministerpräsidenten in einem deutschen Freistaat und die daraus resultierende Bedrohung für die Demokratie. Schaltet ein!

Proper culture wars at @verfassungsblog.de 😜 Must watch 🎭🌈🤓 (even @theguardian.com liked it!)

I made a Law and Technology Scholars starter pack!

Trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on blusky. I need HELP 🖤 @eraldo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @afropean.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @camillahawth.bsky.social @jeannetteoho.bsky.social

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Viele fragen sich, was sie tun können, um unsere Verfassung zu schützen. Unsere Antwort: Wissen schaffen. Wir klären auf über Gefahren für die Demokratie und wie sie abgewehrt werden können – open access. In Thüringen. Im Bund. In Europa. In der Welt. Spenden Sie jetzt. 🚀

Law, Tech, Democracy Starter Pack - for/by/with all who still care! 👋🏼😊https://go.bsky.app/QqcwRoF

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With all the stuff going on in the US, have a look at our editorial this week on @verfassungsblog.de. We talked to activists & law professors in NY, PA & DC on what to expect in a second Trump term. verfassungsblog.de/his-time-has...

Hi there. It’s fall. That’s like winter, spring, and summer the perfect time for good ambient sets. Especially while working. Enjoy this one: on.soundcloud.com/fo3tp8yiugWd...

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