The rise of the data economy dominates many of the contemporary policy debates. One specific aspect that is often overlooked is the impact of trade law. The present Article seeks to fill this gap by exploring the relevance of international trade rules for data and cross-border data flows. It...

Digital technologies, taken as a broad generic category of technological inventions and applications, fall under a rare kind of ‘disruptive technologies' that can radically change existing economic sectors, enable new modes of work, production and consumption and trigger broader societal...

The article provides a concise overview of the rules applicable to postal communications at the international level. Particular attention is paid to the regulations of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as...

The Internet revolution and the digital environment have spurred a significant amount of innovative activity that has had spillover effects on many sectors of the economy. For a growing group of countries – both developed and developing – digital goods and services have become an important...

This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring the governance of "European values" inside data flows. Protecting fundamental human rights and critical public interests that undergird European societies in a global digital ecosystem poses complex...

The ELSI White Paper is the final achievement of the ELSI Task Force for the National Research Programme “Big Data” (NRP 75). It is an informational document that provides an overview of the key ethical, legal, and social challenges of big data and provides guidance for the collection, use,...

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the rules created in preferential trade agreements (PTAs), their evolution over time, and the positioning of the main stake-holders – the EU and the US. The mapping of the new data governance regime in trade agreements should not however be...

The field of copyright law is dynamic and shaped by technological advances. The disruptive digitization of the last three decades has enabled on the one hand more creativity and on the other hand facilitated copyright infringement. Technology itself has become a tool of copyright management and...

Digital technologies have profoundly changed not only the ways we create, distribute, access, use and re-use information but also many of the governance structures we had in place. Overall, "older" institutions at all governance levels have grappled and often failed to master the multi-faceted...