Moritz Schramm

@schrammmo.bsky.social

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

If you're in NY next week on Monday - drop by at New York University School of Law at 4.45pm for a high class panel on the changing state of international governance. We'll talk with H Aust, J Gathii, MJ Durkee, M Koskenniemi, and S Nouwen. More info & RSVP: www.iilj.org/events/law-a...

Law and International Ordering: Views from the Present - Institute for International Law and Justice

The Institute for International Law and Justice invites you to a timely conversation on the changing state of international governance amid escalating conflict in various world regions, the growing en...

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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/

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!

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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@verfassungsblog.de · 12mo ago

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.“

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.

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@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.

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."

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!

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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 🥹👵🏼☮️

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@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.

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: verfassungsblog.de/schuldenbrem...

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.“

📣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.

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New Publication! 👻🤓 Curb Your Enthusiasm: Why Europe's Digital Reforms May Not Become A Global Standard ▶️ I think much of the DSA etc. stabilizes private ordering rather than introduces strict public regulation. The truly globalizing standards will be corporate-made rules - for better, or worse.

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