Well, thank you very much all for coming.

I'm David Erlos, a lecturer in Laura in the Open Society here for those who don't know me.

It's my very great pleasure to introduce Paula Linsky, a very, very good colleague who's

a social professor at the LSE.

She's no stranger at all to any of the aspects of this seminar to data protection, to Europe,

or to Cambridge. She's associate professor at LSE, working mainly on information law, but also on competition law in a European context.

She's just published a brilliant new book on the foundations of European data protection law

published by the other place OUP, but we won't hold that against her because she is also

absolutely no stranger to this faculty.

That book is actually based and developed on her PhD work, which she did here,

and she's been developing this area for many years after that.

So it's my very great pleasure to introduce all of all of all that we'll talk for roughly half or maybe a bit more of the session

and then we'll have some conversation discussion questions so all are able to give well thank you

David it's a it's a real pleasure to be to be back here delivering one of these seminars

and so thank you very much for the invitation. So today I am going

to talk about, well, between independence and integration in EU data protection law. So as David

has mentioned, my primary area of research is in EU data protection law, and I've been

looking in particular at the evolution of data protection as a policy within the EU field.

And I feel that one aspect of that development that has been overlooked so far by much of the academic research, I'd say

with the exception of a piece of David has recently produced on the empirical aspects of this,

is the enforcement of data protection law. And so I chose him to look at the question of the

independence of national data protection authorities

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