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Digital GovernancePublic Law
August 2026 - January 2027

Stefanie Egidy

Regulating the Information Infrastructure

As societies increasingly rely on digital infrastructures, it is imperative to rethink the legal foundations of information control and access. Reports about the removal of data from public websites, about cyber-attacks on critical information systems, and about the targeting of AI-generated misinformation during democratic elections motivates my project, which investigates, how the legal framework governing public information infrastructures has to adapt to the digital transformation.

Biography

University of Mannheim; Prof. Dr., LL.M. (Yale)
I am a professor of public law, economic analysis of law, and public economic law. Before joining the University of Mannheim, I completed my Habilitation thesis at the University of Bonn on "Strategic Litigation as a Challenge for the Judiciary" while working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, in Bonn.


Publications

Egidy, Stefanie Due Process of Lawmaking. The United States, South Africa, Germany and the European Union

Cambridge University Press, 2015, Paperback 2018, 310 S. (with Susan Rose-Ackerman, James Fowkes)

Egidy, Stefanie Finanzkrise und Verfassung. Demokratisches Krisenmanagement in Deutschland und den USA

Mohr Siebeck, 2019