ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francesca Bignami

Francesca Bignami is the Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

POSTS BY Francesca Bignami

29 Juli 2020

Francesca Bignami

Schrems II: The Right to Privacy and the New Illiberalism

This post unpacks the implications of Schrems II for this new, unstable, and in many instances, illiberal political landscape. A number of excellent posts on this blog have already examined the impact of Schrems II on the corporate actors that transfer EU data globally. My focus here is on how Schrems II and the CJEU’s evolving jurisprudence on the right to privacy can be read as targeting the political developments of recent years. Continue reading >>

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21 Mai 2020

Francesca Bignami

Law or Politics?

Why should a proportionality assessment of an instrument of monetary policy, which no one doubts is at least in part designed to increase money supply and combat deflation, examine that instrument’s effect on economic policy? There are two different answers—one under EU law, the other under German law. Continue reading >>

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