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Dr Martin Husovec [pronounced as Husovets, or Husoveck] is an Associate Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Martin investigates questions of innovation policy and digital liberties, in particular, regulation of online digital platforms, intellectual property, and freedom of expression.
He is a year-long expert on platform regulation. Since the adoption of the Digital Services Act, Martin has been training professionals and civil servants from all the regulators around Europe. His book, The Principles of Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press, August 2024) is among the leading publications on the DSA. Martin’s work was repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.
At LSE Law School, he leads CJEU and ECtHR Intervention Clinic, where he works with students on pending technology cases. Martin has filed a number of amicus curiae briefs or third-party interventions before the European Court of Human Rights in key cases dealing with digital freedom of expression (see the overview of cases here). He also represented NGOs that intervened in digital technology cases to support the public interest before the Court of Justice of the European Union (Apple v Commission T-1080/23, Zalando v Commission T-348/23, Technius v Commission T-134/24).
Martin is a founder of the Platform Regulation Academy, an organisation dedicated to independent continuous education about platform regulation. He is also one of the rapporteurs of the Council of Europe’s Recommendation on Online Safety and Empowerment of Content Creators and Users.
Martin obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for his work on injunctions against intermediaries (published with Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is a member of the European Copyright Society (ECS), a group of prominent European copyright scholars. Martin was an advisor to the President of the Slovak Constitutional Court, national ministries in Europe and Asia, and various EU institutions in the areas of intellectual property, digital services regulation, freedom of expression, and privacy.
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Research Interests
Martin conducts research in the areas of intellectual property, digital rights and EU law, in particular:
(i) accountability and liability of online intermediaries,
(ii) remedies in copyright and patent law,
(iii) state regulation of innovation,
(iv) various problems of the data economy
(v) digital freedom of expression