'Regulating for Digital Policy in the EU: A Toolkit Approach': CELS Webinar (audio)

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Speaker: Professor Colin Scott, University College, Dublin Biography: Colin Scott is Professor of EU Regulation & Governance at University College Dublin, where he currently serves as Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Principal of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law and Dean of Social Sciences. He was previously Dean of Law in UCD and has held academic posts at the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics, the Australian National University and the College of Europe Bruges. His main research interests lie in the field of regulatory governance and he served as Convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance from 2016 to 2021. He has held editorial positions at the Modern Law Review, Law & Policy, and Legal Studies and currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Conversation UK. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series

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0:00.0	So hello and welcome to today's Centre for European Legal Studies Seminar.
0:11.0	And we're really thrilled to be able to welcome today Professor Colin Scott from University
0:17.0	College Dublin to give today's seminar. Colin will be well known to many of you.
0:23.6	He is professor of EU regulation and governance, UCD.
0:28.6	In other guises, he is a principal of the College of Social Sciences and Law
0:35.6	and Dean for Social Sciences. Colin's reputation is he's incredibly well known for the work that he does on regulatory policy.
0:45.3	I think almost everything I know about regulatory theory, regulatory policy,
0:51.3	regulatory spaces is largely due to Collins.
0:57.0	It is a great honor for us to have you and thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today.
1:04.0	And Colin is going to talk for about half an hour about the emerging regulatory landscape for digital services and how we should
1:14.0	begin to think and conceptualise a regulatory toolkit for carrying out that task. So without any
1:21.0	further comment from me, Colin, great to have you. Thanks very much, Kenneth. It's really delightful to be with you virtually today, and I hope in person, in future,
1:33.3	and it's a privilege to be able to talk in this wonderful seminar series.
1:38.3	I'm just going to talk for a moment about the motivation for the paper, and then I've got some slides which I'll share.
1:47.0	So the presentation today is very much a work in progress. The paper looks at the potential for
1:52.0	deploying a regulatory toolkit approach to better understand proposed and potential mechanisms for addressing the policy challenges associated with the digital society.
2:02.7	The paper is motivated by a dissatisfaction that the way regulation is discussed, particularly
2:08.2	in current EU policymaking, big tech firms, for example, often present their position
2:14.0	as a willingness to comply with whatever regulation national or EU authorities
2:19.2	may impose. But in my view, this is misleading as, first, big tech companies possess substantial
2:26.8	regulatory capacity themselves, for example, through their terms of service and supply chain contracts.
2:33.7	And second, because they are also
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