Publications by the CDSL
All of the CDSL members publish actively within the CDSL academic fields of interest. A list of publications for each member can be found at the respective individual pages. Anyone interested is also welcome to visit VUB's online Research Explorer service (search possible, among others, by researcher's name or research topic/keyowrds), which is automaticall updated and includes the latest updates.
The CDSL aims, to the greatest extent possible, to provide its publications under an open access policy.
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Featured publications
- Cybersecurity as praxis and as a state: The EU law path towards acknowledgement of a new right to cybersecurity? Papakonstantinou V, Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 44, April 2022, (open access)
- Cyber-insurance in EU policy-making: Regulatory options, the market's challenges and the US example, Markopoulou D, Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 43, November 2021,
- pdf fileDigitalisation of water services and the water sector cyber threat landscape: Is the EU regulatory framework adequate? (130 KB) Markopoulou D/Papakonstantinou V, Journal of Water Law, Volume 27, Issue 4.
- The regulatory framework for the protection of Critical Infrastructures against cyber threats: Identifying shortcomings and addressing future challenges; The case of the healthsector in particular, Markopoulou D/Papakonstantinou V, Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 41, July 2021, (open access)
- The new EU cybersecurity framework: The NIS Directive, ENISA's role and the General Data Protection Regulation, Markopoulou D/Papakonstantinou V/de Hert P, Computer Law & Security Review 35.6, November 2019 (open access)
- Big data analytics in electronic communications: A reality in need of granular regulation (even if this includes an interim period of no regulation at all), Papakonstantinou V/de Hert P, Computer Law & Security Review, April 2020
- EU sanctions against cyber-attacks and defense rights: Wanna Cry? Dumortier Franck, Papakonstantinou Vagelis, De Hert Paul, European Law Blog, 28 September 2020
The CDSL Working Paper Series
CDSL Working Papers have been drafted by CDSL researchers and are made available via the CDSL website in order to promote academic exchange and discussion. They do not warrant fitness for any purpose and their contents should be treated at all times as work in progress.
- Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert, Big Data Analytics in Electronic Communications: A Reality in need of Granular Regulation (even if this includes an interim period of no regulation at all), CDSL Working Paper 1/2019, pdf filedownload (520 KB)
- Paul de Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Framing Big Data in the Council of Europe and the EU data protection law systems: Adding "should" to "must" via soft law to address more than only individual harms, CDSL Working Paper 2/2020, pdf filedownload (728 KB)
- Franck Dumortier, L’obligation de sécurité des données personnelles : vers un standard de «diligence digitale»?, pdf fileCDSL Working Paper 3/2021 (643 KB),
CDSL blog posts
- Whistleblowing Directive not yet transposed: obligation for corporations to implement "whistleblowing" or "so what about it"? Daniel Wasser & Vagelis Papakonstantinou, EU Law Live (Weekend Edition), 25 June 2022,
- EU lawmaking in the Artificial Intelligent Age: Act-ification, GDPR mimesis, and regulatory brutality, European Law Blog, 8 July 2021,
- China's draft privacy bill: A pragmatic, but yet-to-be improved approach? IAPP Privacy Tracker, 4 February 2021,
- Post GDPR EU laws and their GDPR mimesis. DGA, DSA, DMA and the EU regulation of AI, European Law Blog, 1 April 2021,
- The “act-ification” of EU law: The (long-overdue) move towards “eponymous” EU legislation, European Law Blog, European Law Blog, 26 January 2021,
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Refusing to award legal personality to AI: Why the European Parliament got it wrong, European Law Blog, 25 November 2020,
- EU sanctions against cyber-attacks and defense rights: Wanna Cry? European Law Blog, 28 September 2020.