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Moritz Schramm

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Digital Regulation, EU Law, Socio-Legal Studies | Researching & Teaching @nyulaw.bsky.social | Advisory Board @verfassungsblog.de

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Friedrich Zillessen @fzillessen.bsky.social · Aug 25

Im DLF Hintergrund durfte ich ausgiebig über die Themen des Justiz-Projekts sprechen: Inwiefern Delegitimierungsstrategien bereits jetzt greifen, wo mögliche Einfallstore liegen und warum man sich dagegen nicht in eine Wagenburg zurückziehen kann.

Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Aug 25

Wie widerstandsfähig ist die deutsche Justiz gegen politische Einflussnahme?

FRIEDRICH ZILLESSEN (@fzillessen.bsky.social), Projektleiter des Justiz-Projekts, hat mit dem Deutschlandfunk über die Resilienz der Justiz und unsere Arbeit im Projekt gesprochen.

www.deutschlandfunk.de/einfluss-der...

Zitat von Friedrich Zillessen, Projektleiter des Justiz-Projekts: „Wir wollen autoritäre Strategien antizipieren, um ein besseres Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, wo die Justiz verwundbar ist. Dann kann man sich besser darauf vorbereiten - und Gegenstrategien entwickeln.“

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 25

will do!

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Many thanks to Oreste Pollicino, Giovanni De Gregorio, and Peggy Valcke for including me :))

here's the doi: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 25

In essence, those are, in my humble opinion, more empirics, more admin law perspectives, more postcolonial perspectives, and overall caution with constitutional metaphors.

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Global Constitutionalism, another major scholarly project, examining global power structures through the lens of—and driven by the aspiration for—constitutional order.

The comparison with digital constitutionalism then highlights potential avenues for further research.

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Digital Constitutionalism has become a widespread analytical framework and linguistic toolbox for studying digitization, particularly in Europe.

In the recently published Oxford Handbook on Digital Constitutionalism, I reflect on some of its discursive continuities with...

abstract: Eventually, many scholarly approaches that mix a descriptive programme with a normative agenda face a delicate question: what if the thing written about for years does not (fully) transpire? Today, public law is a crucial discursive reference point in international politics and global constitutionalism a widely known scholarly approach thereof. However, despite prevalent talk about constitutional principles in global governance, aspirations of a liberal world order gave way to confrontation, tribalism, and cynicism. Simply put, the promise of global constitutionalism has not fully materialized. So, what can digital constitutionalism, a new scholarly approach that mixes description with desire, learn from global constitutionalism? Apart from several already learned fundamentals, this chapter focuses on what digital constitutionalism might learn from global constitutionalism’s current moment of introspection. Concretely, the chapter presents four lessons, all of which build on critiques of global constitutionalism, which may be, in the future, relevant for digital constitutionalism as well. These lessons are: a stronger empirical footing, a broader focus that includes administrative dimensions, less constitutional metaphors, and more disciplinary and scholarly diversity.

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here’s the link (cover will follow, currently scrambling to get the rights for the painting I intend to use 🙃): www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Governance by Emulation

Cambridge Core - Law and technology, science, communication - Governance by Emulation

www.cambridge.org

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Out in March 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org —and it’ll be fully open access. 📖✨
I owe thanks to countless people who supported this project—more personal thank-yous will follow soon.

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 21

The thesis: today’s governance of globally powerful corporations borrows from public law paradigms—rights, review, due process. Using content moderation as a test case, the book draws general insights into the future governance of private power in an ever more privatised world.

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Big news: my book is (finally) coming out! 🎉

Based on exclusive interviews with EU lawmakers, @oversightboard.bsky.social & other key players, it explores how regulators, corporations & new actors experiment in private & regulatory governance by emulating public law classics.

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · Jun 24

The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social

rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Working on platform governance?

Join for PlatGovNet 2025
Free online conference Dec 1-2
Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2

Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area.

Glad to be part of organizing it
Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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michael veale @michae.lv · Jun 18

3 year postdoc in Tübingen in Law and Tech with the excellent Michele Finck! www.ailaw-tuebingen.eu/vacancy-for-...

Vacancy for a Research Associate — Chair for Law and Artificial Intelligence

www.ailaw-tuebingen.eu

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · May 28

Sold

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · May 28

@NYers - I have 3 very good concert tickets for Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sold out, v nice atmospheric post-rock, can't go myself unfortunately) @PioneerWorks in Brooklyn on June 26, 2025.

Hit me up if you're interested 👻🤟

have a listen👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=55CL...

SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS

YouTube video by Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Topic

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Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · May 12

Semi-structured interviewing is an ever-more common method in (sociolegal) research.

Yet, few lawyers are trained in social scientific methods.

Hopefully, this piece answers some initial methodological questions and/or makes more people curious about interviews as method in legal research!

🤓☺️

Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · May 12

And to think – all of this insight simply from a few good conversations!

MORITZ SCHRAMM (@schrammmo.bsky.social) shares his personal insights on semi-structured expert interviews:

verfassungsblog.de/just-asking/

Quote from our published article by author Moritz Schramm: "Interviews I conducted over the past three years fundamentally called into question several normative priors I had and, eventually, added nuance to the final research outcome."

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · May 7

and again with proper poster! Join us next week on Wednesday! 🤓

Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · May 7

How are platforms changing their content moderation under the new #Trump administration? Join us on May 14, for a keynote & discussion with Paolo Carozza, Co-Chair of Meta's Oversight Board, @claraigk.bsky.social & Moritz Schramm (NYU Law)

Register here: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

PANEL-DISCUSSION. Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression between Oligarchy and Populism. With Paolo G. Carozza, Clara Iglesias Keller & Moritz Schramm. 14.05.2025, 18:00. Walter Hallstein Institute Library, Humboldt University Berlin

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · May 7

Join us via @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin on Wed, 14 May at 6pm to discuss the @oversightboard.bsky.social's future under Trump and Silicon Valley's political shift.

w/ Board members & academics.

Will be good!

www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/rhp...

Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression between Oligarchy and Populism - U.S. Legal Shifts, Meta’s Oversight Board and European Futures

www.rewi.hu-berlin.de

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · May 6

Briefly escaped funding apps & bar exam prep to give a small class on admin perspectives on global law @CatolicaLisbon—more a reflective pause than anything bigger, but a good reminder (I hope) not to lose the global picture amid the domestic mess.

🤓☺️

Thanks @Giovanni De Gregorio & students!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Apr 28

On July 21st to 25th Michael Rosen and I will be teaching a 'Meisterkurs' on Accountability and Power in Berlin at the Humboldt University. Syllabus and details of how to register here.

www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/...

Meisterkurs: Accountability and Power | 21. - 25. Juli 2025

www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Currently on a train in Belgium back to Berlin:

surrounded by a gang of short-silver-haired grandmas who are cracking jokes, share cheese bread, send each other “stay positive” memes on WhatsApp, knit, and ostensibly flirt with the conductor.

Among the most wholesome moments this year so far 🥹👵🏼☮️

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Apr 8

Desk Work Music #4:

spring is coming, time for ambient.

check out this beautiful mix: on.soundcloud.com/xxgUUnQzfnNw...

KrakeCast 040: Vivian Koch (Live at Krake Festival 2023)

During the magical ambient night at our last Krake Festival weekender at ://about blank, this wonderful DJ set by Vivian Koch was recorded in the garden. Enjoy a multifaceted journey led by one of the

on.soundcloud.com

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Maxim Bönnemann @maximb.bsky.social · Mar 3

Wer nur Zeit für einen Text zur Debatte rund um Sondervermögen und Schuldenbremse hat: Dieser Text von @meinel.bsky.social über den Versuch, den alten bundesrepublikanischen Industriekapitalismus zu konstitutionalisieren und die Schuldenbremse als gespenstisches Verfassungsrecht ist augenöffnend.

Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Mar 3

Die Bundesrepublik vor der Spaltung der Finanzverfassung:

FLORIAN MEINEL (@meinel.bsky.social) über die Spaltung des Fiskalregimes in Haushalt und Sondervermögen, finanzverfassungsrechtliche Fieberträume und das gespenstische Verfassungsrecht der Schuldenbremse:

verfassungsblog.de/schuldenbrem...

Zitat: „Noch wird das Neue gebannt in die Form eines heftigen finanzverfassungsrechtlichen Fiebertraums namens Sondervermögen, von dem man noch hofft, aus ihm zu erwachen. Wie ein Erwachen innerhalb der Verfassungsformen der parlamentarischen Demokratie anders aussehen sollte als die Abschaffung der Schuldenbremse, ist unklar.“

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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · Feb 18

📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thanks a million to the organizers of the ESIL interest group on intl law & technology and the team at the European Journal of Legal Studies!
Esp. @barriesander.bsky.social @stefaniasds.bsky.social @rachelgriffin.bsky.social @roxanav.bsky.social @hlahmann.bsky.social @esil-sedi.bsky.social

Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · Feb 28

New Publication! 👻🤓

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Why Europe's Digital Reforms May Not Become A Global Standard

▶️ I think much of the DSA etc. stabilizes private ordering rather than introduces strict public regulation. The truly globalizing standards will be corporate-made rules - for better, or worse.