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According to news reports, Netflix is preparing to impose a crackdown on the practice of what it calls 'password sharing', that is the use of the service by multiple people outside the same household. Looking at the reports it seems Netflix is going a lot further than simply
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The University of Copenhagen is organising a conference on December 2nd in memory of Prof. Steen Treumer who would be 57 that day. In addition to yours truly, the conference is packed with a number of top notch speakers and it is one of those rare occasions where it is
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Two PhD positions have just been announced for CBS LAW. One in Compliance/Financial Compliance, the other in Digital Transformations & Law, both starting in Autumn 2022: https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-compliancefinancial-compliance-the-department-of-management https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-digital-transformations-and-the-law-the-department-of-management I’m not involved direc
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For my Public Regulations course at CBS, I had the chance to interview Rob Baugh from Keepabl about data protection and GDPR. He was kind enough to ask for the video and upload it to his YouTube channel Privacy Kitchen. Here’s the interview in all its glory:
Higher Education
My good friend Kirsi-Maria Halonen from the University of Lapland asked me to circulate the information that she is looking for a Post-doctoral researcher – EU Internal Market Law and Security of Supply. This is a 24 month role part of the LEXSECURE project. More information is available here and anyone
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One of the most puzzling features of the assessment strategy in the UK's Higher Education sector is its over reliance on essays. Students are given a topic or questions and then have a few weeks to write a few thousand words about said topic. On my law degree,
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A couple of days ago I expressed some strong reservations regarding Apple's anti-trust strategy and how it was fuelling the competition law infringement fire instead of taking some evasive measures. Well, this week's WWDC is showing less competition law recklessness on the part of the company.
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I have been thinking about Apple's dominant position in the (iOS) smartphone market for quite a few years, mostly in the context of how slow EU competition law enforcement is in regards with technology sectors. The last week or so, first with the EU Commission's investigation
Public Procurement
On the footsteps of yesterday’s ‘goodbye’ post I am [thrilled/deligthed/enthused/humbled/smug] to announce that I will be joining the Copenhagen Business School as Associate Professor in Procurement Law from next Monday. My connection with CBS can be traced all the way back to my Ph.D.
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As mentioned a few weeks ago on twitter, I left my employment at Swansea University and checked out from British academia. At the time I tweeted that there was plenty to say about the state of British academia and why I took this decision. The decision itself is based on
Public Procurement
Eurotunnel is suing the Department for Transport due to the ferry contract(s) awarded back in December without proper tendering procedures. This turn of affairs is not really surprising and a logical consequence of the poor handling of those contracts. The merits of the actual complaint, they appear obvious. In
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This is a slide I will be using on Monday’s EU law lecture. I have not drilled down into the details, namely if there is any evolution or if there has been an increase on Commission’s delegated Regulations but I was suprised at the findings. The EU legal