Today in Berlin at for a meeting of the German Advisory Council on Consumer Policy. On the agenda: our new position paper on the #DigitalFairnessAct - to be published next week. Stay tuned… #DFA #ConsumerLaw #ConsumerProtection ##ConsumerPolicy

🚨New Publication🚨

ISP fellow @christophbusch.bsky.social writes about: "Consumer Law for AI Agents":

arxiv.org/abs/2507.11567

Join us for the next Berkeley/ELI Transatlantic Conversation on Consumer Protection Law organized by the European Law Institute's Digital Law Group and the UC Berkeley Center on Consumer Law & Social Justice. The discussion will focus on the topic of #darkpatterns.

#DigitalFairnessAct #ConsumerLaw

Today, the European Law Institute published the Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Digital Assistants for Consumer Contracts (“DACC”) - a blueprint for making consumer law ready for AI commerce.

Here is the link to the full text of the model rules: www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/projects-pub...

📱How can #DigitalPlatforms design for child safety?

In this article Miriam Buiten & @christophbusch.bsky.social identify guiding principles to ensure children's safety online & highlight best practices to complement #DSA requirements.

Read the full research here 🔗 rb.gy/ddy3nt

„Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.“

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/a...

💡News on the Digital Services Act

📑 CERRE's DSA Implementation Forum unveils a framework to safeguard minors online, focusing on age-appropriate design and age assurance for clearer EU standards.

Read the full research here 👉 rb.gy/2rn51f

#DSA #ChildProtection #CERREInsights #CERREDPS2025

New paper alert: "Consumer Law for AI Agents" (forthcoming German Law Journal 2025)

How could AI agents change the existing e-commerce landscape and how will they challenge the premises of a human-centric consumer law?

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ISP Fellow @christophbusch.bsky.social writes about: "Platform Responsibility in the European Union From the E-Commerce Directive to the Digital Services Act"

www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Desk with a view... over Pacific Heights, San Francisco.

Getting ready for this year's Consumer Law Scholars Conference at the University of California, Berkeley later this week.

Here is the full text of the ELI report on algorithmic decision making & consumer contracts: www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/news-events/...

Is EU Consumer Law ready for the rise of digital assistants? Yes, but…

For more details, have a look at our Report on “EU Consumer Law & Automated Decision-Making” published today by the the European Law Institute (ELI) - or join us for a webinar on 31 January 2024 (registration via ELI website).

Join us on 7 Dec at 17:00 CET for the inaugural event of the new Transatlantic Dialogues on Consumer Protection organised by the European Law Institute and the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice.

A great lineup of speakers will discuss the new California Delete Act and the GDPR.

Rounding off my research stay in Scotland with three days in Edinburgh: a visit to the wonderful National Gallery and a coffee with the great @lilianedwards.bsky.social. Really inspiring conversation about the #DSA, #ChatGPT and #GranularLaw...