The General Data Protection Regulation: The New Gold Standard?

Date: 

Monday, October 15, 2018, 12:00am to 1:00pm

Location: 

WCC 2036 (Milstein East C), Harvard Law School

The European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is currently discussed worldwide. As of May 2018, every company targeting customers in Europe has to comply with the new rules on data processing. The GDPR’s principles and legislative techniques are highly debated: Is it a truly modern approach to the data economy? Has the GDPR become the new gold standard for worldwide data protection regulation? Has the European Union initiated a ‘race to the top’ and gained a legislative First-Mover-Advantage? Will other countries / regions follow the European approach?

This lunch talk by Dr. Moritz Hennemann will tackle these questions and will also point to additional EU data protection laws currently debated. 

Lunch will be provided.

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Speaker: Dr. Moritz Hennemann, MJur (Oxford) is an Assistant Professor (Postdoc) at the Institute of Media and Information Law, University of Freiburg Law Faculty. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as an Attorney-at-Law at Germany’s top tier law firm Hengeler Mueller. His research focuses mainly on the data-driven economy and its legal framework – especially with respect to Contract Law, Data Privacy Law, Anti-Trust Law, and Media Law). He has widely published on these topics in German law journals and is one of the authors of Germany’s leading academic commentary to the General Data Protection Regulation. For the Fall Term 2018, Moritz Hennemann is a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School.

Sponsor: Harvard European Law Association (HELA)