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Institute of Media and Information Law, Dept. II: Public Law

Welcome
to the Institute of Media and Information Law
– Department Public Law –

and

to the Chair of Public Law with European Administrative, Information and Environmental Law!

Director and Professor: Prof. Dr. Jens-Peter Schneider

News

November 2025

Guest Talk

Beyond Trees and Rivers: Fungi and the Future of Rights of Nature
by Anna-Julia Saiger

As part of the international conference “Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity in and through the Anthropocene” at Goethe University Frankfurt.

November 2025

Guest Talk

Due Diligence Obligations on Climate Change. Insights from the ECtHR on the ICJ
by Anna-Julia Saiger

As part of the international conference “Wind Power and Wildlife. European Legal Frameworks for Energy Transition” at the University of Mannheim.

December 2024

Conference

State of AI Regulation in a Global Perspective 2024

On December 4 and 5, 2024, the Institute for Media and Information Law organized the conference “State of AI Regulation in Global Perspective 2024.”

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November 2024

Book contribution

Collaborative Governance of the EU Digital Single Market Established by the Digital Services Act

by J.-P. Schneider, K. Siegrist, S. Oles
in: Hofmann/Pflücke, Governance of Automated Decision-Making and EU Law

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September 2024

Essay

Collaborative Governance Structures for Interoperability in the EU’s new data acts

by J.-P. Schneider, J. Erny, F. Enderlein
in: European Journal of Risk Regulation

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June 2024

Publication

The Administration and You

Prof. Schneider participated in an international working group that revised the Council of Europe handbook “The Administration and You” in light of the use of artificial intelligence systems by public administrations.

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June 2023

Essay

Platform regulation as a building block of European AI governance

by J.-P. Schneider
in: Matthias Ruffert (ed.), Die Regulierung digitaler Plattformen (The Regulation of Digital Platforms), Nomos Verlag Baden-Baden 2023, p. 105 ff.

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2020-2022

Project

AI and Public Administration

The European Law Institute has adopted the “Model Rules on Impact Assessment of Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Used by Pub. Admin.,” which were drafted under the leadership of Prof. Schneider and J. Dollinger.

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