“Making the Cyberspace Great Again”, Alexandre de Streel
PLAMADISO Talk by Alexandre de Streel (University of Namur & CERRE) – 13 March 2025 || Organized by the Research Group “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem & Internet Policy” @Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Title: “Making the Cyberspace Great Again: How Can EU Tech Laws Restore the Promises of the Internet?”
Abstract
The talk will discuss what are the synergies between the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act and their ultimate objectives in restoring some of the early promises of the Internet expressed by John Perry Barlow in his Declaration of the Cyberspace. The talk will also discuss what are the means which are necessary to achieve those objectives and how the new EU tech law influence the four regulators of the cyberspace identified by Lessig (law, markets, technical architecture and social norms). Finally the talk with discuss the enforcement of the EU tech in the current geo-political turmoils.
Short Bio
Alexandre de Streel is professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He is also academic director of the digital research programme at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) and member of decision panel at the Belgian Competition Authority. He sits in the scientific committees of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), the European University Institute-Centre for a Digital Society (Italy) and Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).
His main research areas are the regulation and the application of competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regularly advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.
Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission and has been the chair the expert group on the online platform economy advising the European Commission.
More info about Alexandre de Streel:
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Website: https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/destreea
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