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Moritz Schramm
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Digital Corporations & Infrastructures, Socio-Legal Studies |
Governance by Emulation: Oversight Board, DSA, Platform Accountability (forthcoming CUP 2026) |
Researching & Teaching @nyulaw.bsky.social |
Advisory Board @verfassungsblog.de
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If you sometimes wonder where to look for hope in 2026, amid constant news of crisis in democracy and international law, I would suggest this: look to Ukraine. 🇺🇦

My editorial for @verfassungsblog.de on Lviv — and what we can learn from this city:

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A picture of a snowy street in Lvi with city lights
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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IT’S HAPPENING!

Just sent the proofs to CUP - book due 3/2026. It’s a comprehensive sociolegal study of Art 21 DSA & @oversightboard.bsky.social.

Teaches A LOT about future governance, institutional performativity & contested relevance of public law as framework for whatever lies ahead.
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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IT’S HAPPENING!

Just sent the proofs to CUP - book due 3/2026. It’s a comprehensive sociolegal study of Art 21 DSA & @oversightboard.bsky.social.

Teaches A LOT about future governance, institutional performativity & contested relevance of public law as framework for whatever lies ahead.
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.

That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Out now — die Ergebnisse des Justiz-Projekts.💥

Ein Jahr Arbeit, rund 70 Gespräche mit Expertinnen und Experten, in denen wir der Frage nachgegangen sind: Wie verwundbar ist die deutsche Justiz?

Ab sofort Open Access verfügbar: verfassungsblog.de/book/das-jus... 🔗

Antizipation beginnt jetzt.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Release Day für das Justiz-Projekt!

Hier ist ein Jahr Arbeit in fünf Minuten zusammengefasst: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/angriffe-von...
Angriffe von Rechtsaußen - Wie widerstandsfähig ist die deutsche Justiz?
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December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Quick intro to my forthcoming book (CUP, 2026): Through two socio-legal case studies—DSA and the Oversight Board—I trace how public-law ideas are reproduced in both private and regulatory governance for Big Tech, highlighting the promise & pitfalls of this approach. Join at 8:15am EST / 2:15pm CET!
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Morgen veröffentlichen wir die Ergebnisse des Justiz-Projektes @verfassungsblog.de!

Auf über 330 Seiten gehen wir der Frage nach, wie verwundbar die deutsche Justiz gegenüber autoritären Populisten ist.

Spoiler: Antizipation beginnt jetzt!
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓

Here’s the program:

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November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Damit wir diese Arbeit weiterhin leisten können, brauchen wir Ihre Unterstützung: 💳 verfassungsblog.de/support

Jeder Euro zählt. ❤️ Sichern Sie mit uns gemeinsam das Fundament der Demokratie – Text für Text.
Verfassungsblog Spendenkampagne Slide 6: Türkise Überschrift "UNTERSTÜTZEN SIE UNSERE ARBEIT MIT IHRER SPENDE". Text: "Mit 120.000 Euro bis Ende 2025 bleiben wir online. Mit 380.000 Euro bis April 2026 bauen wir unser Momentum in Redaktion, Verlag und mit unseren Projekten aus. Mit 750.000 Euro bis Oktober 2026 werden wir zukunftsfest." Fettgedruckt: "Wir zählen auf Sie." Schwarzer Balken: "Text für Text." Türkiser Button: "Jetzt direkt spenden: verfassungsblog.de/support".
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Im DLF Hintergrund durfte ich ausgiebig über die Themen des Justiz-Projekts sprechen: Inwiefern Delegitimierungsstrategien bereits jetzt greifen, wo mögliche Einfallstore liegen und warum man sich dagegen nicht in eine Wagenburg zurückziehen kann.
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Aug 25
Wie widerstandsfähig ist die deutsche Justiz gegen politische Einflussnahme?

FRIEDRICH ZILLESSEN (@fzillessen.bsky.social), Projektleiter des Justiz-Projekts, hat mit dem Deutschlandfunk über die Resilienz der Justiz und unsere Arbeit im Projekt gesprochen.

www.deutschlandfunk.de/einfluss-der...
Zitat von Friedrich Zillessen, Projektleiter des Justiz-Projekts: „Wir wollen autoritäre Strategien antizipieren, um ein besseres Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, wo die Justiz verwundbar ist. Dann kann man sich besser darauf vorbereiten - und Gegenstrategien entwickeln.“
August 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Digital Constitutionalism has become a widespread analytical framework and linguistic toolbox for studying digitization, particularly in Europe.

In the recently published Oxford Handbook on Digital Constitutionalism, I reflect on some of its discursive continuities with...
abstract: Eventually, many scholarly approaches that mix a descriptive programme with a normative agenda face a delicate question: what if the thing written about for years does not (fully) transpire? Today, public law is a crucial discursive reference point in international politics and global constitutionalism a widely known scholarly approach thereof. However, despite prevalent talk about constitutional principles in global governance, aspirations of a liberal world order gave way to confrontation, tribalism, and cynicism. Simply put, the promise of global constitutionalism has not fully materialized. So, what can digital constitutionalism, a new scholarly approach that mixes description with desire, learn from global constitutionalism? Apart from several already learned fundamentals, this chapter focuses on what digital constitutionalism might learn from global constitutionalism’s current moment of introspection. Concretely, the chapter presents four lessons, all of which build on critiques of global constitutionalism, which may be, in the future, relevant for digital constitutionalism as well. These lessons are: a stronger empirical footing, a broader focus that includes administrative dimensions, less constitutional metaphors, and more disciplinary and scholarly diversity.
August 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Big news: my book is (finally) coming out! 🎉

Based on exclusive interviews with EU lawmakers, @oversightboard.bsky.social & other key players, it explores how regulators, corporations & new actors experiment in private & regulatory governance by emulating public law classics.
August 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social
rasmuskleis.bsky.social rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Jun 24
Working on platform governance?

Join for PlatGovNet 2025
Free online conference Dec 1-2
Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2

Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area.

Glad to be part of organizing it
Details: platgov.net/conferences/...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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3 year postdoc in Tübingen in Law and Tech with the excellent Michele Finck! www.ailaw-tuebingen.eu/vacancy-for-...
Vacancy for a Research Associate — Chair for Law and Artificial Intelligence
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June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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@NYers - I have 3 very good concert tickets for Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sold out, v nice atmospheric post-rock, can't go myself unfortunately) @PioneerWorks in Brooklyn on June 26, 2025.

Hit me up if you're interested 👻🤟

have a listen👇

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SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS
YouTube video by Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Topic
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May 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Semi-structured interviewing is an ever-more common method in (sociolegal) research.

Yet, few lawyers are trained in social scientific methods.

Hopefully, this piece answers some initial methodological questions and/or makes more people curious about interviews as method in legal research!

🤓☺️
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · May 12
And to think – all of this insight simply from a few good conversations!

MORITZ SCHRAMM (@schrammmo.bsky.social) shares his personal insights on semi-structured expert interviews:

verfassungsblog.de/just-asking/
Quote from our published article by author Moritz Schramm: "Interviews I conducted over the past three years fundamentally called into question several normative priors I had and, eventually, added nuance to the final research outcome."
May 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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and again with proper poster! Join us next week on Wednesday! 🤓
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · May 7
How are platforms changing their content moderation under the new #Trump administration? Join us on May 14, for a keynote & discussion with Paolo Carozza, Co-Chair of Meta's Oversight Board, @claraigk.bsky.social & Moritz Schramm (NYU Law)

Register here: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
PANEL-DISCUSSION. Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression between Oligarchy and Populism. With Paolo G. Carozza, Clara Iglesias Keller & Moritz Schramm. 14.05.2025, 18:00. Walter Hallstein Institute Library, Humboldt University Berlin
May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Join us via @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin on Wed, 14 May at 6pm to discuss the @oversightboard.bsky.social's future under Trump and Silicon Valley's political shift.

w/ Board members & academics.

Will be good!

www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/rhp...
Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression between Oligarchy and Populism - U.S. Legal Shifts, Meta’s Oversight Board and European Futures
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May 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Briefly escaped funding apps & bar exam prep to give a small class on admin perspectives on global law @CatolicaLisbon—more a reflective pause than anything bigger, but a good reminder (I hope) not to lose the global picture amid the domestic mess.

🤓☺️

Thanks @Giovanni De Gregorio & students!
May 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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On July 21st to 25th Michael Rosen and I will be teaching a 'Meisterkurs' on Accountability and Power in Berlin at the Humboldt University. Syllabus and details of how to register here.

www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/...
Meisterkurs: Accountability and Power | 21. - 25. Juli 2025
www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de
April 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Currently on a train in Belgium back to Berlin:

surrounded by a gang of short-silver-haired grandmas who are cracking jokes, share cheese bread, send each other “stay positive” memes on WhatsApp, knit, and ostensibly flirt with the conductor.

Among the most wholesome moments this year so far 🥹👵🏼☮️
April 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Desk Work Music #4:

spring is coming, time for ambient.

check out this beautiful mix: on.soundcloud.com/xxgUUnQzfnNw...
KrakeCast 040: Vivian Koch (Live at Krake Festival 2023)
During the magical ambient night at our last Krake Festival weekender at ://about blank, this wonderful DJ set by Vivian Koch was recorded in the garden. Enjoy a multifaceted journey led by one of the
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April 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Wer nur Zeit für einen Text zur Debatte rund um Sondervermögen und Schuldenbremse hat: Dieser Text von @meinel.bsky.social über den Versuch, den alten bundesrepublikanischen Industriekapitalismus zu konstitutionalisieren und die Schuldenbremse als gespenstisches Verfassungsrecht ist augenöffnend.
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Mar 3
Die Bundesrepublik vor der Spaltung der Finanzverfassung:

FLORIAN MEINEL (@meinel.bsky.social) über die Spaltung des Fiskalregimes in Haushalt und Sondervermögen, finanzverfassungsrechtliche Fieberträume und das gespenstische Verfassungsrecht der Schuldenbremse:

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Zitat: „Noch wird das Neue gebannt in die Form eines heftigen finanzverfassungsrechtlichen Fiebertraums namens Sondervermögen, von dem man noch hofft, aus ihm zu erwachen. Wie ein Erwachen innerhalb der Verfassungsformen der parlamentarischen Demokratie anders aussehen sollte als die Abschaffung der Schuldenbremse, ist unklar.“
March 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.
February 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM