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The (Euro)Stack (LAW-DS-ESTACK-25)

LAW-DS-ESTACK-25

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lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">In his 2016 book, Benjamin Bratton proposed that planetary-scale computation had created “The Stack” as a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. Around the same time, India began to promote “IndiaStack” as a “moniker for a set of open APIs and digital public goods that aim to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale”.

Roughly a decade later, in February 2025, an unorthodox coalition of European civil society actors, industry, academics, and policy-makers proposed the “EuroStack” as “a bold vision for Europe’s digital future, aiming to establish the continent as a leader in digital sovereignty”. This experimental seminar will analyze the EuroStack initiative from theoretical, comparative, and legal perspectives.

In this way, this seminar is a follow-up to “digital infrastructure regulation”: While the latter inquired how law can (re)shape existing digital infrastructures through regulation, this seminar asks how law may facilitate the construction of alternative digital infrastructures.

The seminar aims to lay the groundwork for a collective publication on “The Law of the EuroStack”. Seminar participants will be asked to choose – individually or collectively – a layer of the (Euro)Stack they would like to explore in-depth. Workshop-style sessions will facilitate the exploration of the past, present, and future of the EuroStack with digital infrastructure experts from other disciplines.

Attendance and active participation required. In the two weeks between the second session (11 Nov.) and the workshop sessions (25 Nov.), participants will be asked to research one layer of the EuroStack in depth. Attendance on 25 November is essential.

First, Second & Third Term: registration from 22 to 26 September 2025

 

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