Annual Update on the EU Digital Services Act

This one-day executive in-person course provides an advanced update on the latest legal, policy and enforcement developments surrounding the EU Digital Services Act.

Overview

The Annual Update on the EU Digital Services Act is an executive education course designed by Dr Husovec.

It combines 6 hours of live in-person seminars with an additional 12 hours of pre-recorded lectures from Dr Husovec's online course, the DSA Specialist Masterclass, to which the participants are granted access for two months.

This one-day course provides regular updates on the latest developments concerning the Digital Services Act. The seminars, led by Dr Martin Husovec and other leading practitioners in the field, are held at LSE in London. The course is designed for professionals in tech, law, regulation and public policy who need a practical, authoritative update on how the EU Digital Services Act is evolving in practice.

Participants include professionals from national regulatory authorities, technology companies, law firms, funding agencies, and civil society organisations.

Aims

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Showcase comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of key legal, policy, and compliance developments surrounding the EU Digital Services Act from the previous year
• Critically assess recent developments in the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), and apply up-to-date regulatory insights to their professional context
• Identify relevant enforcement trends, anticipate regulatory risks, and engage confidently with clients, internal teams, or regulators on DSA-related matters
• Demonstrate an understanding of the main provisions of the EU Digital Services Act through a set of hypotheticals from daily practice

Target Audience

• Practitioners, in-house lawyers, and civil servants across the world who work on the trust and safety regulation of digital services, including content moderation, and who want to prepare for DSA compliance work
• Professionals and students across the world who wish to gain in-depth knowledge of the key DSA concepts to boost their career prospects

Course Content

Topics

• The DSA’s scope, components, and broader regulatory context
• Content moderation and risk management issues
• Update on the latest CJEU case law (Zalando, Amazon, Russmedia)
• Private enforcement of the DSA
• Procedural aspects of the DSA public enforcement

Teaching Materials

• Slides
• Free access to Dr Husovec’s DSA Specialist Masterclass (online course)
• Suggested further reading: The Principles of the Digital Services Act

Academic staff

Course convenor

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  Dr Martin Husovec is an Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is an expert in platform regulation. Since the adoption of the Digital Services Act, Martin has been training professionals and civil servants from regulatory agencies across Europe. His book, The Principles of Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press, August 2024) is among the leading publications on the DSA. 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. He has 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 education about platform regulation. Martin’s work has been repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Guest speakers

This short course will include guest lectures by practitioners.

Assimakis Komninos (Partner, White & Case)

Assimakis Komninos's practice focuses on the newly adopted Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), and complex cases of abuse of dominance, restrictive agreements and Phase I and Phase II merger control reviews. He represents clients before the EU Courts, the European Commission, national competition authorities, national courts, and international arbitration tribunals. He has represented Google in the Android and Heureka cases, Amazon in the Italian carve-out case (BuyBox), Meta in the successful challenge of their DSA supervisory fee, CCIA in Google Shopping, and has been part of the Microsoft litigation team (2004-2009). He has also appeared before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a number of preliminary reference cases.

Alfonso Lamadrid (Partner, Latham & Watkins)

Alfonso Lamadrid, one of the leading figures in European antitrust and related litigation, represents clients in their most significant and complex antitrust and competition law matters. His track record of more than 90 cases includes some of the most significant competition law cases in the EU. He provides strategic advice to leading companies in the technology and digital sectors on Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) investigations. He also advises clients on merger control and the application of State aid rules across a full spectrum of sectors. He serves as a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and as a visiting professor at the Brussels School of Competition. He is also a member of the Executive and Scientific Committees of the Global Competition Law Center and sits on the board of the Spanish Competition Law Association.

Professional services staff

Course manager

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  Amanda Tinnams is the Short Course Manager at LSE Law School, bringing over two decades of experience managing short course programs. Amanda has successfully overseen courses offered on-campus, online and internationally. She is committed to creating impactful learning experiences that combine academic excellence with practical application, supporting professionals and organisations worldwide.

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