Date: March 31, 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Piotr Staszczyk (Référendaire (Legal Clerk), Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg)
This speech introduces the European Union’s new legal framework for digital technologies, presenting the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, and the Digital Markets Act as three pillars of a broader regulatory architecture. It explains why the EU decided to intervene in these areas, what each regulation is designed to achieve, and how they complement one another. The AI Act will be outlined through its risk-based system and the new rules for general-purpose AI, the DSA through its provisions on platform accountability and systemic risk management, and the DMA through its obligations imposed on digital “gatekeepers.”
The speech provides a comprehensive synthesis of these legal instruments, framing the AI Act, DSA, and DMA as the completed architecture of the EU’s digital strategy. It offers a clear, high-level perspective on how these mechanisms function in unison to manage systemic risk and platform accountability within the global digital economy. By connecting the practical significance of each regulation, the presentation highlights their collective role in shaping the future of digital governance. The session will conclude with a Q&A, giving the participants the opportunity to engage directly with the material and discuss its broader implications.
Piotr Staszczyk is a Référendaire (Legal Clerk) at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, where he has served since 2019, specializing in EU law analysis and judicial document drafting. He holds a Ph.D. in European Union Law (with distinction) from Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland) with his dissertation on NGOs and European civil society published by Wolters Kluwer. He is a member of the Kraków Bar. His current research focuses on AI and platform regulation. He has been a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institutes in Hamburg and Heidelberg (Germany), and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Essex (England).
Moderator: Marianne von Blomberg (Global Academic Fellow (incoming), The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law; Fellow, University of Cologne)
To register, please go to https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=105222.
For inquiries, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at / 3917 4727.