To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package

University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR); Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Law, Science, Technology & Society Research Group; University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Students

Giovanni De Gregorio

Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon

Oreste Pollicino

Bocconi University - Department of Law

Alexander Peukert

Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Law

Naomi Appelman

University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR)

João Pedro Quintais

University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR)

Ronan Fahy

University of Amsterdam

Herbert Zech

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät

Catalina Goanta

Utrecht University - Faculty of Law

Hannah Ruschemeier

German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer; CAIS NRW

Paddy Leerssen

University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR)

Ruth Janal

Bayreuth University

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell

Charles III University of Madrid; Independent

Inge Graef

Tilburg Law School; Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT); Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)

Jens-Uwe Franck

University of Mannheim - Department of Law

Martin Peitz

University of Mannheim - Department of Economics

Rupprecht Podszun

Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Faculty of Law

Peter Georg Picht

University of Zurich - Institute of Law

Dr. Suzanne Vergnolle

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)

Date Written: October 11, 2021

Abstract

Are the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) appropriate instruments to regulate private power in the digital space? From August 30 to September 7, 2021, the Verfassungsblog and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition co-hosted the online symposium “To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package“. This eBook brings together the 15 contributions from different perspectives, which were originally published successively on the Verfassungsblog. The collection in this eBook is intended to further advance the scholarly discourse on the regulation of private power.
Authors are Ilaria Buri, Joris van Hoboken, Giovanni De Gregorio, Oreste Pollicino, Alexander Peukert, Naomi Appelman, João Pedro Quintais, Ronan Fahy, Herbert Zech, Catalina Goanta, Hannah Ruschemeier, Paddy Leerssen, Ruth Janal, Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Inge Graef, Jens-Uwe Franck, Martin Peitz, Rupprecht Podszun, Peter Picht, and Suzanne Vergnolle.

Keywords: competition law, data act, data protection, data governance act, data regulation, digital services act, digital markets act, enforcement, fundamental rights, GDPR, platform regulation, private enforcement, private power

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Richter, Heiko and Straub, Marlene and Tuchtfeld, Erik and Buri, Ilaria and van Hoboken, Joris V. J. and van Hoboken, Joris V. J. and van Hoboken, Joris V. J. and De Gregorio, Giovanni and Pollicino, Oreste and Peukert, Alexander and Appelman, Naomi and Quintais, João Pedro and Fahy, Ronan and Zech, Herbert and Goanta, Catalina and Ruschemeier, Hannah and Leerssen, Paddy and Janal, Ruth and Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Teresa and Graef, Inge and Franck, Jens-Uwe and Peitz, Martin and Podszun, Rupprecht and Picht, Peter Georg and Vergnolle, Suzanne, To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package (October 11, 2021). Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 21-25, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3932809 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3932809