The Technology Law & Policy Centre was pleased to host Dr. Mark Leiser (VUA) on 17 April 2024. He gave a stimulating talk entitled "From Here to Where? The DSA and Freedom of Expression".
Dr Mark Leiser is a regulatory theorist, specialising in Digital, Legal, and Platform Regulation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute). In his research and lecturing, he focuses on law and digital technologies, such as fundamental rights, e-commerce, regulatory theory, and platform regulation. contracting, security, privacy, freedom of speech, cybercrime; and phenomena related to deceptive design, dark patterns, consumer protection, and the use and regulation of AI and digital technologies.
Researchers in the Technology Law & Policy Centre study the role of technology in contemporary society, how technology challenges the orthodox legal framework (facilitated by continuously evolving technological innovations) and addresses how law and policy may be adapted to suit contemporary needs. Centre members’ research takes technology as a central focus of their work, and study technology through a legal and policy lens in a way that benefits society.