Vagelis Papakonstantinou
This is the website of Vagelis Papakonstantinou
Professor of Law @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) · Attorney at law @ MPlegal
Featured books
Featured publications
- A question of strategic legislation: Can the EU deal with cybersecurity issues in space? — Telecommunications Policy, 2025
- Democratic legitimacy of AI in judicial decision-making — AI & Society, 2025
- Digital constitutionalism in the States-as-Information-Platforms context: A new programme, the acknowledgement of Platform Rights — Digital Constitutionalism, Nomos, 2025
News
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Regulating Other People’s Technology: Europe, AI and Digital Sovereignty
LinkedIn article, 5 September 2026 Europe has become remarkably good at regulating technologies it did not develop and does not control. The EU AI Act is perhaps the clearest example. To understand its logic, think of a hammer. I imagine that, just as we feel about AI today, this is more or less how our…
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The Archipelago Seminar launched with inaugural session on “The State as Information Platform”
The inaugural session of The Archipelago Seminar introduced the central thesis of Archipelago: the state as an information platform.
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AI in German Employment Relationships: Fourth volume in my Nomos book series
Happy to share the publication of the fourth volume in my Nomos book series The Regulation of Digital Technologies Artificial Intelligence in German Employment Relationships: Analysis from an International Perspective The volume, which I co-edited with Daniel Wasser, looks at a question that is becoming increasingly urgent in practice: how AI can be understood, introduced…