Globalizing the European Media Order: The Brussels Effect in Times of Crisis
04/07/2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in Berlin (Deutschland)
What are the challenges of finding consensus in a diverse Europe and the potential of Europe as a global regulator of the digital field? Renate Nikolay is a key voice in the development of European digital regulation, with a deep experience in data protection, hate speech, and disinformation. She will talk with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz about the challenges of finding consensus in a diverse Europe and, the potential of Europe as a global regulator of the digital field. Together they will enquire about Europe’s regulatory approaches anchored sufficiently in scientific insights into platforms, regulation, and whether the “Brussels effect” of digital rules underlines the importance of European digital law.
The event will be held in English and moderated by Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann.
Renate Nikolay is Head of Cabinet of Vĕra Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, working on matters such as rule of law or disinformation. She was Director in charge of Asia and Latin America in DG Trade and, from 2014 to 2019, she was Head of Cabinet of the Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality where she played a key role in the adoption of the data protection reform and the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor and the Code of Conduct with platforms on online hate speech. She holds a law degree (erstes und zweites Staatsexamen) from the Free University of Berlin.
Wolfgang Schulz is Director of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) and holds the university professorship “Media Law and Public Law including its Theoretical Foundations” at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg. Since February 2012, he has been Research Director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). His work emphasizes the freedom of communication, problems of legal regulation with regard to media contents, questions of law in new media, above all in digital television, and the legal bases of journalism, but also the jurisprudential bases of freedom of communication and the implications of the changing public sphere on the law.