Paul Friedl

Me (Paul Friedl)

About

I’m a legal researcher with a focus on data and technology law. After having completed my JSD at Humboldt University Berlin supervised by Prof. Martin Eifert, I am currently a clerk with the German Ministry of Justice as well as a post-doctoral researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and an affiliate researcher at the Information Law Institute at New York University. My research mostly concerns law’s impacts on data and internet governance, with a special focus on the governance of AI. Some of my publications also address other issues of (European) public law, specifically human and fundamental rights law. You can find me on Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn and Google Scholar or send me an email on [myfirstname].[mylastname]@hu-berlin.de.

I’m currently on the advisory board of the Verfassungsblog, responsible for contributions on data law and artificial intelligence. If you are interested in publishing with the Verfassungsblog on these issues, please send me a message.

Publications

Paul Friedl and Louis Rolfes (2024) “Datenschutz gegen digitalen Autoritarismus”, Verfassungsblog (Thüringen-Projekt), 2024/8/21.

Paul Friedl and Julian Morgan (2024) “Decentralised Content Moderation”, Internet Policy Review 13(2), DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1754.

Paul Friedl and Gabriel Nicholas (2024) “Regulating Large Language Models: A Roundtable Report”, Report by the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Information Law Institute @ NYU Law.

Paul Friedl and Gustavo Gil Gasiola (2024) “Examining the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act”, Verfassungsblog, 2024/2/07, DOI: 10.59704/789d6ad759d0a40b.

Paul Friedl (2023) “Dis/similarities in the design and development of legal and algorithmic normative systems: the case of Perspective API”, Law, Innovation and Technology 15(1), 25-59, DOI: 10.1080/17579961.2023.2184134.

Paul Friedl (2022) “Privacy Law and the Social Construction of Identity: An Interrelated History”, in: Jill Marshall (ed.), “Personal Identity and the European Court of Human Rights” (Routledge 2022)

Paul Friedl (2020) “A New European Fundamental Rights Court: The German Constitutional Court on the Right to Be Forgotten”, European Papers 2020(1), 447-460

Paul Friedl (2019) “New Laws of Forgetting: The German Constitutional Court on the Right to be Forgotten”, European Law Blog 2019(12)

Paul Friedl (2016). “Deutschland und Ukraine: Datenschutzrecht im Vergleich”, in: Dimitri Kessler & Elgin Keskin (eds.), “Regulierung des Wirtschaftslebens in Deutschland und der Ukraine”

Talks and presentations

“Decentralised Content Moderation”, Young Digital Law Conference 2024, Sciences Po, Paris, June 2024 [slides]

“Foundation Models under the EU AI Act”, Comillas Universidad Pontificia, Madrid, April 2024 (invited talk) [slides] [video]

“Escaping Scraping: The (New) Laws and Politics of Web Scraping in an Age of Generative AI”, DigiMeet 2023, Online, November 2023 [slides]

“Rethinking Language Model Governance”, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, September 2023 [slides]

“The EU’s AI Act and its potential implications for Large Language Models”, Roundtable on LLMs, Law & Policy, New York, July 2023

“Dis/similarities in the Design and Development of Legal and Algorithmic Normative Systems: the Case of Perspective API”

“Rechtliche Bedingungen der Verkehrswende im urbanen Raum”, Forschungsgruppe „Digitale Mobilität und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung“, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, June 2022

“Reasonable Expectations of Privacy: an Update for the Age of Algorithms”, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, June 2021

“(Im)Mobilitätsfiktionen: Berlin zwischen Teslafuturismus und autofreier Innenstadt”, Klasse Klima, Universität der Künste, Berlin, February 2021

“Privacy Law and the Social Construction of Identity: An Interrelated History”, World Conference of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Lucerne, July 2019

Curriculum Vitae

Here’s my CV and here’s a German version of it.

Work

Teaching

“Human and Fundamental Rights in the Digital Era: Current Challenges”, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2024

“Law in the Age of Algorithms: Interdisciplinary Investigations” [Syllabus], Humboldt Summer University, 2022

Seminar “Constitutional Law II” (fundamental rights law), Humboldt University Berlin, 2022

Seminar “Constitutional Law I” (law of state institutions), Humboldt University Berlin, 2021

Academic

Organization of the “Rountable on Large Language Models, Law & Policy”, hosted by the Information Law Institute @ NYU and the Center for Democracy and Technology, July 2023

Organization of a conference and moderation of a discussion on AI regulation with Prof. Philipp Hacker and Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt, “Markets, Governance and European Law in the Algorithmic Era” Conference, July 2021

Moderation of a panel discussion on electoral law, Law & Society Institute, Berlin, April 2021

Moderation of a panel discussion on European integration through law, Law & Society Institute, Berlin, February 2021

Organization of a university exchange between Humboldt University Berlin and Tbilisi University, November 2019

Organization of a workshop on “Privacy, Dignity and Human Identities”, the World Conference of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Lucerne, July 2019

Community Service

Legal support (drafting of bill proposals, drafting of court briefs, legal advising) for a Berlin grassroots movement working towards reducing motorized transport within the city of Berlin, 2019-today

Misc

Music is life. If you’re in need of a playlist that includes both annoyingly wonderful radio pop and 17-minute-ambient-pieces, you might like this one or this one.

Movies, too, are life and sometimes when I watch one I list and review it here.

“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”, Octavia E. Butler