Michèle Finck

I research, teach and advise on law and technology.

I am Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Tübingen, an Affiliated Fellow at the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College London as well as a Visiting Professor at LUISS University in Rome. I previously worked at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

My research focuses on artificial intelligence and the digital economy with a particular emphasis on data (protection) law and governance. More recently, I have become interested in the intersection between digitalization and sustainability.

I am the author of Subnational Authorities in EU Law (Oxford University Press 2017) and Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe (Cambridge University Press 2018). I am moreover an editor of the Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy (which has also been translated into Korean) and Smart Urban Mobility.

I am a member of a number of expert committees on digitalization, including the Council of Europe’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the European Commission’s Blockchain Observatory and Forum. I have moreover advised national institutions as well as the European Commission and the European Parliament on different occasions.

I am a strong believer in the importance of effectively communicating independent academic research to researchers in other disciplines, relevant policy actors and the broader public.

Monographs & Edited Volumes

Michèle Finck, Subnational Authorities in EU Law (Oxford University Press 2017).

Nestor Davidson, Michèle Finck and John Infranca (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Korean Translation: 2020.

Michèle Finck, Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Michèle Finck et al (eds), Smart Urban Transportation Systems and the Law (Springer 2020).

Editor of the ‘Digital Single Market’ and ‘Data Protection’ Sections of the Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Law (forthcoming, Oxford University Press 2020).

Articles

Asia Biega and Michèle Finck, 'Reviving Purpose Limitation and Data Minimisation in Data-Driven Systems' Technology and Regulation (2021)

Michèle Finck, 'Cobwebs of Control: 'The Two Imaginations of the Data Controller in EU Law' International Data Privacy Law (2021)

Michèle Finck and Frank Pallas, ‘They Who Must Not Be Identified - Distinguishing Personal from Non-Personal Data Under the GDPR’ International Data Privacy Law (2020)

Michèle Finck, Afterword on ‘Spatial Statism’ (forthcoming, International Journal of Constitutional Law 2020) (upon invitation of the editorial board).

Michèle Finck and Floris de Witte, ‘The Challenge of Challenges’ (2020) 21 German Law Journal 1-4.

Michèle Finck et al, ‘Data subjects as data controllers: a Fashion(able) concept?’ (2019) Internet Policy Review.

Michèle Finck, ‘Smart Contracts as Automated Decision-Making under Article 22 GDPR’ (2019) 9 International Data Privacy Law 78-94.

Michèle Finck and Valentina Moscon, ‘Copyright Law on Blockchains: Between New Forms of Rights Administration and Digital Rights Management 2.0’ (2019) 50 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 77-108.

Michèle Finck, ‘Distinguishing Internet Platforms from Transportation Services: Uber Spain’ (2018) 55 Common Market Law Review 1619-1640.

Michèle Finck, ‘Blockchains: Regulating the Unknown’ (2018) 4 German Law Journal 665-692.

Translation into Mandarin: 2020.

Michèle Finck, ‘Blockchains and the General Data Protection Regulation’ (2018) 4 European Data Protection Law Review 17-35.

Michèle Finck, ‘Digital Co-Regulation: Designing a Supranational Legal Framework for the Platform Economy’ (2018) 41 European Law Review 33-67.

Michèle Finck, ‘Fragmentation as an Agent of Integration’ (2018) 15 International Journal of Constitutional Law 1119-1134.

Michèle Finck and Sofia Ranchordás, ‘Sharing and the City’ (2016) 49 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1299-1369.

Michèle Finck, ‘The Role of Human Dignity in Gay Rights Adjudication’ (2016) 14 International Journal of Constitutional Law 26-53.

Michèle Finck, ‘Challenging the Subnational Dimension of the Principle of Subsidiarity’ (2015) 17 European Journal of Legal Studies 5-17.

Michèle Finck and Betül Kas, ‘Surrogacy Leave as a Matter of EU Law’ (2015) 52 Common Market Law Review 281-298.

Michèle Finck, ‘Towards an Ever Closer Union Between Residents and Citizens? On The Possible Extension of Voting Rights to Foreign Residents in Luxembourg’ (2015) 11 European Constitutional Law Review 78-98.

Michèle Finck, ‘Above and Below the Surface: The Status of Sub-National Authorities in EU Climate Change Regulation’ (2014) 26 Journal of Environmental Law 443-472.

Michèle Finck, ‘The Role of Localism in Constitutional Change: A Case Study’ (2014) 30 The Journal of Law & Politics 53-95.

Book Chapters

Michèle Finck, ‘Using Data Protection Law to Tame AI’ in Uta Kohl, James Davey and Jacob Eisler (eds), Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press 2020).

Michèle Finck and Domagoj Pavić, ‘Blockchain-Technologien zwischen Datenschutz und Transparenz’ in Alexander Dix et al (eds) Informationsfreiheit und Informationsrecht – Jahrbuch 2019 (forthcoming, Lexxion 2020).

Michèle Finck, ‘Automated Decision-Making and Transparency in Administrative Law’ in Peter Cane et al, The Oxford Handbook on Comparative Administrative Law (forthcoming, Oxford University Press 2020).

Michèle Finck, ‘Foreword’, in Lars Hornuf and Gregor Dorfleitner, FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany (Springer 2019).

Michèle Finck, ‘Blockchains and the Right to be Forgotten’ in Nikita Aggraval et al (eds), Autonomous Systems and the Law( Beck 2019).

Michèle Finck, ‘Grundlagen und Technologie von Smart Contracts‘ in Martin Fries and Boris Paal (eds), Smart Contracts (Mohr Siebeck 2019).

Michèle Finck, ‘Smart Contracts und Art. 22 DS-GVO’ in Tom Braegelmann and Markus Kaulartz, Rechtshandbuch Smart Contracts(Beck 2019).

Michèle Finck, ‘The Sharing Economy and the EU’ in Nestor Davidson et al, The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Michèle Finck, ‘Loyalty towards Federation’ in The Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press 2018).

Michèle Finck, ‘The Impact of EU Law in Luxembourg: Does Size Matter?’ in Petra Butler and Caroline Morris, Small States in a Legal World (Springer 2018).