Mini-course: EU Technology Law in Practice: The AI Act, DSA, and DMA

A five-session mini-course introducing the European Union’s new digital regulatory framework. Designed especially for students without prior EU law knowledge, the course covers three landmark instruments: the AI Act (risk-based regulation of artificial intelligence), the Digital Services Act (platform accountability and content moderation), and the Digital Markets Act (rules for dominant “gatekeeper” firms). Sessions will combine doctrinal explanation with case studies and classification exercises, equipping students to read and apply EU technology law to realistic scenarios.

Topics:

1. Introduction: Why the EU Regulates Technology
2. The AI Act: Risk-Based Regulation
3. General-Purpose AI (GPAI) and Foundation Models
4. The DSA: Platforms and the Digital Public Sphere
5. The DMA: Gatekeepers and Market Fairness

Piotr Staszczyk is a Référendaire (Legal Clerk) at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, where he has served since 2019, specializing in EU law analysis and judicial document drafting. He holds a Ph.D. in European Union Law (with distinction) from Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland) with his dissertation on NGOs and European civil society published by Wolters Kluwer. He is a member of the Kraków Bar.  His current research focuses on AI and platform regulation. He has been a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institutes in Hamburg and Heidelberg (Germany), and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Essex (England).

This mini-course is open to current HKU students only. Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?UEID=105223 (HKU Portal log-in required).