Attila Mráz is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and a ...

Access to knowledge and information is essential to foster innovation. In the EU, existing copyright rules pose significant ...

With the sudden passing of Catarina de Albuquerque on 7 October 2025, the human rights community has lost a champion whose contribution to the promotion of socio-economic rights in the last twenty ...

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In an interview with Deutschlandfunk (DE), project lead Friedrich Zillessen reported on the work of the Judicial Resilience Project. He explained that the aim of the project is to conduct a stress ...

To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package The concentration of private power in the digital realm is not tenable – on this there is consensus. It ...

“Is there a common denominator between shareholders, multinationals, and their suppliers at the other side of the world? Our answer is yes. You may respond that businesses can’t see that far. I ...

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There is little point in rehearsing in length, yet again, the all too justified laments about the unfortunate decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (‘BVerfG’) of 5 May 2020 in the case ...

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Commentaries to the German Federal Constitutional Court’s unprecedented judgment in Weiss (2 BvR 859/15 and others of 5 May 2020) are likely to focus on the German court’s argument on proportionality ...

“It’s political economy, stupid!” There is probably no better way to express our increasing frustration caused by the avalanche of commentaries on the Weiss judgment by the German Constitutional Court ...