Dr Martin Husovec

Dr Martin Husovec [pronounced as Husovets, or Husoveck] is an Associate Professor of Law at The 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.

Martin is one of the leading experts and educators on the EU Digital Services Act. He is the author of the monograph, Principles of the Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press, 2024) and designer of popular courses on the Digital Services Act. Martin is also one of the rapporteurs of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on online safety and empowerment of content creators and users. Over the years, Martin acted as a lawyer for numerous NGOs before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in digital-technology-related cases (see the overview of cases here). Martin’s work was repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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. He is also a co-founder of a think-tank, the European Information Society Institute, which is active as an intervener before the European Court of Human Rights, and the Court of Justice of the European Union, and operates a domain name dispute resolution system for skTLD.

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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