With a population of 73 million, second only to Germany when compared to the 27 European Union Member States, and a gross domestic product growth rate of 8 percent, Turkey is a force to be reckoned with on the outskirts of Europe. Turkey harbors the largest city in Europe (Istanbul, with an...

Two important features of European integration have been a deepening commitment to in-formation privacy as a fundamental human right, and the successful integration of technical standards into the regulatory framework to support the growth of the internal market. This paper will explore the...

For some decades, the right to privacy and the right to the protection of personal data seemed to be the same thing. Since 2008, the case-law of the ECJ has started considering them as autonomous rights, although the first is considered to be strictly connected to the second. The Treaty of...

The last two decades have borne witness to the unstoppable rise of the Internet and other information and communication technologies that have gradually introduced changes in social life. It is commonly understood that this implies rethinking the law of effectiveness in a “2.0 world.” The...

Drawing on theories of European integration and governance and sociological studies on the influence of elite law firms on rule-setting in other areas of law and business, this paper shows that law firms operate in the area of data protection that is of extreme complexity and requires expert...