A short few days in September 2020 saw an extraordinary turn of events. The Member States of the European Union used the withdrawal of a Member State from the European Union (EU) as a pretext to dismiss a sitting Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union … [Read more...]

In a high-profile decision of 6 February 2019, the German Federal Cartel Office prohibited Facebook’s data collection policy as an abuse of dominance for infringing its users’ constitutional right to privacy.  The case triggered a remarkable inter-institutional dispute between … [Read more...]

In a world where a very few platforms have increasingly become the gatekeepers of digital markets, online music licensing requires solutions based on data infrastructure and detailed rights ownership information and technologies. So far, these solutions have been mostly … [Read more...]

The year 2019 marked the centenary of the academic field of International Relations (IR) and called for a serious and thorough assessment of its past achievements and failures, as well as the challenges that lay ahead. IR seems to be experiencing an existential crisis quite … [Read more...]

This paper suggests a new framework for the legitimacy of international adjudication relative to other branches and modes of public decision-making. Named ‘Public Epistemic Authority’, this new framework approaches judicial authority from its often-overlooked institutional … [Read more...]