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By Arailym, Patrick and Sondra The road to what might be called regulatory maturity is often a long one. In EU cybersecurity regulation, a culture of vertical and horizontal collaboration is optimistic but seemingly ineffective. It likely leaves the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) feeling somewhat envious of the centralised enforcement powers recently vested…

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  Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Andre Engels, via Wikimedia Commons The EU’s asylum pact was adopted less a year ago, and mostly won’t apply for over another year – and yet the EU Commission has already proposed to amend it, in order to bring forward some of…

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Introduction The topic of debate is whether corporate human rights pose an obstacle or precursor to their own accountability for human rights violations. Many might have an intuitive response: if corporations can be held responsible for human rights violations, they also should have protected rights and access to courts to enforce those rights. Or vice…

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US Antitrust Case Targets Meta’s Acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp At a time when Europeans are eagerly awaiting the European Commission’s rigorous enforcement of the new tech rules designed to tackle digital platform power, this week’s developments across the Atlantic reminded us that big tech scrutiny has not only been on the European agenda in…

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