Data at the Boundaries of European Law

Data at the Boundaries of European Law represents an original and engaged piece of scholarship in an important and fast developing field of policy and research. Beyond, and including, the most recent major new pieces of EU legislation-the Data Governance Act, together with the Data Act and the AI Act still going through the legislative process-this book draws attention to the substance of a number of core themes of the relationship between law and the digital world that are still somewhat hidden.

These themes include the mimetic regulatory trajectories in and around the GDPR, transparency, ownership, and accountability, as well as the translation of all of these into core areas of public law such as criminal law, migration law, and intellectual property law. As a result, this book occupies a distinctive place in the debate on digital law that goes beyond the various silos of knowledge of particular legal disciplines. The issues addressed in this book are of interest to a global readership. They grapple with a number of the difficult themes of our times as applied to private and public actors and their (future) regulation in a manner that is relevant not just in Europe but worldwide.

Deirdre Curtin, Law Professor, European University Institute,Mariavittoria Catanzariti, Research Associate, European University Institute

Deirdre Curtin is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute (EUI). Prior to joining the EUI, she held the Chair in European Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam. She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2003), of the Royal Irish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020) and a laureate of the Spinoza prize (NWO, 2007) for research in the field of European law and governance. Her research interests are in the fields of European institutions and European administrative law with a particular interest in justice and home affairs and data protection.

Joining the EUI as Jean Monnet Fellow in 2017, Mariavittoria Catanzariti is currently Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI) and Adjunct Professor of Law & Ethics of Innovation & Sustainability at LUISS University. Barrister at law since 2010, she obtained a PhD in European Law in 2011 from Roma Tre University and qualified as an Associate Professor in Legal Sociology in 2018. Her research interest revolves around the interaction of digital transformation and information society with the law. Her publications cover privacy and data protection, law & technologies, human rights, and legal sociology.

1. Data at the Boundaries of (European) Law: A First Cut, Mariavittoria Catanzariti and Deirdre Curtin
2. Boundary Work between Computational 'Law' and 'Law as-we-know-it', Mireille Hildebrandt
3. Post-GDPR Lawmaking in the Digital Data Society: Mimesis without Integration - Topological Understandings of Twisted Boundary Setting in EU Data Protection Law, Paul de Hert
4. Thinking Inside the Box: The Promise and Boundaries of Transparency in Automated Decision-Making, Ida Koivisto
5. Beyond Originator Control of Personal Data in EU Interoperable Information Systems: Towards Data Originalism, Mariavittoria Catanzariti and Deirdre Curtin
6. Bits, Bytes, Searches, and Hits: Logging-in Accountability for EU Data-led Security, Deirdre Curtin and Marieke de Goede
7. Afterword, Niovi Vavoula