Over the last ten years, numerous pieces of EU legislation have been adopted in the field of digital law, including the AI Act, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. These complex but sometimes difficult to understand legal acts play an important role in research and everyday life. In this volume, legal scholars and experts present the key EU legal acts that are relevant to social scientists, students and the general public. The volume also aims to stimulate a greater exchange between the social sciences and law, from which both disciplines can benefit.

Table of Contents

• Rita Gsenger & Marie-Therese Sekwenz: Introduction 9
• Catrien Bijleveld: Methods for Empirical Legal Research 21
• Hannah Ruschemeier & Jascha Bareis: Searching for Harmonised Rules: Understanding the Paradigms, Provisions, and Pressing Issues in the Final EU AI Act 41
• Jorge Constantino: Accountable AI: It Takes Two to Tango 95
• Marie-Therese Sekwenz & Rita Gsenger: The Digital Services Act: Online Risks, Transparency and Data Access 115
• Pascal Schneiders & Lena Auler: The Digital Services Act – An Appropriate Response to Online Hate Speech? 141
• Liza Herrmann: The Brave Little Tailor v. Digital Giants: A Fairy-Tale Analysis of the Social Character of the DMA 179
• Valerie Albus: Eyes Shut, Fingers Crossed: The EU’s Governance of Terrorist Content Online under Regulation 2021/784 209
• Max van Drunen: What the Political Advertising Regulation Can Do for Researchers (and Vice Versa) 233
• Lisa Völzmann: The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 255
• Adelaida Afilipoaie & Heritiana Ranaivoson: The European Media Freedom Act. A Redoubt for Pluralism in an Increasingly Concentrated Landscape 273
• Lucie Antoine: The Data Governance Act – Is “Trust” the Key for Incentivising Data Sharing? 311
• Nik Roeingh & David Wagner: The Open Data Directive: Potential and Pitfalls for the Social Sciences 343
• Prisca von Hagen: Internet of Things Data within the Context of the Data Act: Between Opportunities and Obstacles 371
• Julia Krämer: EU Data Protection Law in Action: Introducing the GDPR 393
• Lisa Markschies: The European Health Data Space: The Next Step in Data Regulation 425
• Lucas Lasota: The CRA and the Challenges of Regulating Cybersecurity in Open Environments: The Case of Free and Open Source Software 445
• Eyup Kun: Unpacking the NIS 2 Directive: Enhancing EU Cybersecurity for the Digital Age 479