nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/73aaa5ac9d80b65b DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240603s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/73aaa5ac9d80b65b doi eng 342 23 Panahi, Tahireh Author aut Soft law, hardcore? - The Legal Enforcement of Codes of Conduct under the Digital Services Act Panahi, Tahireh Verfassungsblog 2024-06-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Soft law offers the possibility of agile and flexible regulation that can adapt to dynamic digital developments. However, due to its non-binding nature, soft law is not considered to be very effective. With the Digital Services Act (DSA), however, the EU is taking an - at least from a legal dogmatic perspective - unconventional approach by combining hard and soft law in a unique way. The DSA itself is a legally binding EU regulation, but it provides for soft law instruments and even contains provisions for their legal enforcement. Although such regulatory techniques are well known in EU law, they at least call into question the public perception of the DSA as the ‘constitution of the internet’. How far-reaching can such a constitution be that outsources essential issues to (executive-initiated, privately set) soft law? CC BY-SA 4.0 digital platforms Digital Services Act DSA Platform Regulation Soft Law de Bittencourt Siqueira, Andressa Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/soft-law-dsa-co-regulation/ raw object