ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jennifer Urban

Jennifer M. Urban is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is Director of Policy Initiatives for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Views expressed in this piece are her own and should not be attributed to the University of California, the California Privacy Protection Agency, or the California Privacy Protection Agency Board.

POSTS BY Jennifer Urban

21 February 2024

Will the DSA have the Brussels Effect?

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a comprehensive effort by the European Union (EU) to regulate digital services. Many on-lookers in Europe and beyond its borders wonder about whether the DSA will influence activities outside of Europe via a “Brussels Effect.” In this contribution, we argue that when it comes to extraterritorial spill-over effects of the DSA that are driven by economic incentives or de facto standardisation and private ordering. Continue reading >>