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Dr Martin Husovec [pronounced as Husovets, or Husoveck] is an Associate Professor of Law at The London School of Economics and Political Science (杏吧论坛). Martin investigates questions of innovation policy and digital liberties, in particular, regulation of online digital platforms, intellectual property, and freedom of expression.

Martin is one of the leading experts and educators on the EU Digital Services Act. He is the author of the monograph,  and designer of popular . Martin is also one of the rapporteurs of the Council of Europe’s . Over the years, Martin acted as a lawyer for numerous NGOs before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in digital-technology-related cases (see the overview of cases ). Martin’s work was repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Martin obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for his work on injunctions against intermediaries (published with Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is a member of , a group of prominent European copyright scholars. He is also a co-founder of a think-tank, , which is active as an intervener before the European Court of Human Rights, and the Court of Justice of the European Union, and operates a domain name dispute resolution system for skTLD.

Martin was an advisor to the President of the Slovak Constitutional Court, national ministries in Europe and Asia, and various EU institutions in the areas of intellectual property, digital services regulation, freedom of expression, and privacy. 

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