Book Talk – Digital Services Act

New Pillars of Digital Law - 1st Book Talk

Digital Services Act
An Article-by-Article Commentary, Beck - Hart - Nomos, 2025
Edited by Franz Hofmann and Benjamin Raue

Introduction
Alberto De Franceschi, University of Ferrara / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Round Table
Franz Hofmann, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Benjamin Raue, University of Trier and Director of the Institute for Digital Law Trier (IRDT)
Karen Lee, University of Technology, Sydney

Info and registration: alberto.defranceschi@unife.it
Link for the livestream: meet.google.com/doz-joie-ixk

Franz Hofmann/Benjamin Raue (eds.) Digital Services Act,
An Article-by-Article Commentary, Nomos, 2025
With the Digital Services Act (DSA – Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), the European legislator introduced a comprehensive set of regulations covering diverse areas of the digital society such as intermediary liability, transparency obligations for recommender systems or provisions on dark patterns. But how to interpret these new rules?
Franz Hofmann and Benjamin Raue have assembled a team of distinguished academics with extensive experience in European law. The authors have systematically analysed the telos, the background, the systematics and all the different elements of each of the 92 articles of the Digital Services Act. The commentaries are complemented by introductions that explore the overarching principles and systematics of the DSA and each of its chapters.
As a further measure to promote a European perspective on the provisions of the DSA, most of the commentaries have included French translations of key terms. This may challenge the perception often associated with the use of an English term, which is often associated with a particular concept of English law.
The authors see their commentary as an invitation to start a discussion on how the DSA and its provisions should be interpreted and put into practice. In doing so, they hope to contribute to the European and transcontinental dialogue on the proper regulation of platforms