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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My AI is better than yours!
Published on LinkedIn, on 21 October 2026 The first to feel the wind of change were probably those receiving submissions of all kinds. Only a few weeks ago, for example, the European Commission announced that proposals for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships had more than tripled since 2022. In March, Springer Nature announced manuscript submissions…
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Ibn Khaldun and the Canon of Political Thinkers
This paper argues that Ibn Khaldun deserves a place in the canon of political thinkers not as a precursor to Machiavelli or modern social science, but as an original, systematic political thinker in his own right. Reading The Muqaddimah against interpretations that emphasise the fiscal and civilising functions of the state, it locates Khaldun’s most…
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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…