Digital Sovereignty in the European Union CGLG Talk with Guest Speaker Michal Czerniawski

Michal Czerniawski works in the Justice Committee of the European Parliament, specialising in digital laws, personal data protection, and transparency. As part of the EU fellowship programme, Michal's research project at St Andrews focuses on ‘Strengthening the EU's Normative Digital Sovereignty'. This CGLG event is an opportunity for students and faculty members to learn more about the EU's – and Michal's – work on digital sovereignty as practitioner and academic fellow.

Michal will speak about how the transatlantic tensions surrounding EU digital legislation, including the Digital Services Act and the General Data Protection Regulation, expose a clash over jurisdiction and authority online. US criticism and recent developments show that matters such as content moderation, data protection/privacy and artificial intelligence are now geopolitical issues. Although justified in terms of international law, the EU digital laws face a test of the Union's capacity for credible extraterritorial enforcement.