CV & Research

Dr Martin Husovec [pronounced as Husovets, or Husoveck] is an Associate Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Martin investigates questions of innovation policy and digital liberties, in particular, regulation of online digital platforms, intellectual property, and freedom of expression.

He is a year-long expert on platform regulation. Since the adoption of the Digital Services Act, Martin has been training professionals and civil servants from all the regulators around Europe. His book, The Principles of Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press, August 2024) is among the leading publications on the DSA. Martin’s work was repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

At LSE Law School, he leads CJEU and ECtHR Intervention Clinic, where he works with students on pending technology cases. Martin has filed a number of amicus curiae briefs or third-party interventions before the European Court of Human Rights in key cases dealing with digital freedom of expression (see the overview of cases here). He also represented NGOs that intervened in digital technology cases to support the public interest before the Court of Justice of the European Union (Apple v Commission T-1080/23, Zalando v Commission T-348/23, Technius v Commission T-134/24).

Martin is a founder of the Platform Regulation Academy, an organisation dedicated to independent continuous education about platform regulation. He is also one of the rapporteurs of the Council of Europe’s Recommendation on Online Safety and Empowerment of Content Creators and Users.

Martin obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for his work on injunctions against intermediaries (published with Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is a member of the European Copyright Society (ECS), a group of prominent European copyright scholars. Martin was an advisor to the President of the Slovak Constitutional Court, national ministries in Europe and Asia, and various EU institutions in the areas of intellectual property, digital services regulation, freedom of expression, and privacy.

  • My SSRN can be found here.

My New Work

  1. [EN] The Missing Link: How New Institutions Could Improve What We Read Online (2026) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming)
  2. [EN] FIDE Report on EU Digital Economy: general framework (DSA/DMA): XXXI FIDE Congress (May 2025)
  3. [EN] Principles of the Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press, August 2024)
  4. [EN] Martin Husovec, The DSA’s Red Line: What the Commission and Cannot Do About Disinformation 16 (2024) in Journal of Media Law [here]
  5. [EN] Martin Husovec, Tatjana Grote, Yara Mazhar, Cham Mikhaeil, Harold Miñarro Escalona, Pragya Sinha Kumar, Sanjana Sreenath, Grand Confusion After Sanchez v. France: Seven Reasons for Concern about Strasbourg Jurisprudence on Intermediaries (2024) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 4(2024)
  6. [EN] Genevieve Heng, Martin Husovec and Jorge Contreras, Patentomania: The Cost of Embedding Patents in Social Policies (2023) University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 581
  7. [EN] Martin Husovec, When is the EU Legislator Responsible? (2023) [work-in-progress]
  8. [EN] Martin Husovec, Luxembourg, Do You Read Me? How to Open Up the CJEU to National Courts, Academies and Civil Society (2024)

My Recent Work

Shorter pieces

  1. [EN] Martin Husovec, Will the DSA Work? (2023) Verfassungsblog
  2. [EN] Martin Husovec and Jennifer Urban, Will the DSA Have Brussels’ Effect? (2024) Verfassungsblog
  3. [EN] Martin Husovec, Trusted Content Creators (2022) LSE Law – Policy Briefing Paper No. 52

Journal articles in English:

  1. [EN] Martin Husovec, Mandatory filtering does not always violate freedom of expression: Important lessons from Poland v. Council and European Parliament (2023) Common Market Law Review 60(1)
  2. [EN] Lenka Fiala and Martin Husovec, ‘Using Experimental Evidence to Design Optimal Notice and Takedown Process’ (2022) 71 International Review of Law and Economics. 
  3. [EN] Estelle Derclaye and Martin Husovec, Sui Generis Database Protection 2.0: Judicial and Legislative Reforms (2022) European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR)
  4. [EN] Martin Husovec and João Pedro Quintais, ‘How to license Article 17? Exploring the Implementation Options for the New EU Rules on Content-Sharing Platforms’ (2021) 70(4) GRUR International.
  5. [EN] Martin Husovec, How will the European patent judges understand proportionality? 60(4) (2020) Jurimetrics 5
  6. [EN] Inge Graef, Martin Husovec, and Jasper den Boom, ‘Spill-Overs in Data Governance: The Relationship Between the GDPR’s Right to Data Portability and EU Sector-Specific Data Access Regimes’ (2020) 3 Journal of European Consumer and Market Law
  7. [EN] Martin Husovec, Essence of Intellectual Property Rights under Art 17(2) of the EU Charter (2019) 20(6) German Law Journal (special edition on ‘Essence of Fundamental Rights’), pp. 840-863
  8. [EN] Inge Graef, Raphael Gellert, and Martin Husovec, ‘Towards a Holistic Regulatory Approach for the European Data Economy: Why the Illusive Notion of Non-Personal Data is Counterproductive to Data Innovation’ (2019) 44(5) European Law Review, p. 605-621
  9. [EN] Martin Husovec, The Promises of Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement: Takedown or Staydown? Which is Superior? And Why? (2018) 42(1) Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, pp. 53-84
  10. [EN] Inge Graef, Martin Husovec, Nadya Purtova, Data Portability and Data Control: Lessons for an Emerging Concept in EU Law (2018) 19(6) German Law Journal, pp. 1359-1398

Books

  1. [EN] Martin Husovec, Injunctions Against Intermediaries in the European Union: Accountable, but not Liable? (Cambridge University Press 2017) – 296 pages
  2. [EN] Contreras and Husovec (eds.) Injunctions in Patent Law: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Flexibility and Tailoring (Cambridge University Press 2021)
  3. [SK] Martin Husovec, Liability on the Internet under Czech and Slovak law [Zodpovednosť na internete podľa českého a slovenského práva] (CZ.NIC, 2014) – 236 pages

Book Chapters in English

  1. [EN] Jorge L. Contreras, Martin Husovec, Matthew Rimmer, Utility Models and Other Forms of Sub-Patent Protection in Jorge L. Contreras, Sub-Patent Innovation Rights Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World (CUP 2024)
  2. [EN] Jorge Contreras and Martin Husovec, Issuing and Tailoring Patent Injunctions – a Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison and Synthesis in Contreras and Husovec (eds.) Injunctions in Patent Law: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Flexibility and Tailoring (Cambridge University Press 2022)
  3. [EN] Martin Husovec and João Quintais, Too Small to Matter? On the Copyright Directive’s bias in favour of big right-holders in Tuomas Mylly and Jonathan Griffiths (Eds.) Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism. Hedging Exclusive Rights (Oxford University Press, 2021)
  4. [EN] Martin Husovec, Closing the Gap: How EU Law Constrains National Rules Against Imitation? in Brunn, Dinwoodie, Ohly, Levin (eds.) Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law (Cambridge University Press 2020)
  5. [EN] Martin Husovec, Remedies First, Liability Second: Or Why We Fail to Agree on Optimal Design of Intermediary Liability? In Giancarlo Frosio (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Intermediary Liability Online (Oxford University Press 2020)
  6. [EN] Giancarlo Frosio and Martin Husovec, Intermediary Accountability and Responsibility In Giancarlo Frosio (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Intermediary Liability Online (Oxford University Press 2020)
  7. [EN] Martin Husovec, How Europe Wants to Redefine Global Online Copyright Enforcement In: Tatiana Eleni Synodinou (ed.), Pluralism or Universalism in International Copyright Law (Kluwer Law, 2019) 
  8. [EN] Martin Husovec, The Fundamental Right to Property and the Protection of Investment: How Difficult Is It to Repeal New Intellectual Property Rights in Christophe Geiger (eds), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law (Edward Elgar 2019)
  9. [EN] Martin Husovec, Asking Innocent Third Parties for a Remedy: Origins and Trends In Franz Hofmann and Franziska Kurz (eds.) Law of Remedies (Intersencia 2019)
  10. [EN] Martin Husovec, Standardization, Open Source, and Innovation: Sketching the Effect of IPR Policies In Jorge Contreras (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law (Cambridge University Press 2019) 

Textbooks

  1. [SK] Martin Husovec, Matúš Mesarčík, Jozef Andraško, Law of Information and Communication Technologies 1 [Právo informačných a komunikačných technológií 1] (TINCT, 2021)

Important Slovak articles

  1. [SK] Martin Husovec, The concept of parasitizing unfair competition [Koncept parazitujúcej nekalej súťaže] in Marian Kropaj (ed.) Sub Specie Aeternitatis: Život a dielo profesora Jána Švidroňa (Faber, 2015), pp. 159-193
  2. [SK] Martin Husovec, The Public Interest in Copyright law: exceptions and limitations, restrictively? [Verejný záujem v autorskom práve. Výnimky a obmedzenia, reštriktívne? (2013) 5 Právny obzor, pp. 472-498
  3. [SK] Martin Husovec, The domain name transfer before the court Prevod domény .eu všeobecným súdom 8(4) Revue pro právo a technologie, pp. 53-55
  4. [SK] Martin Husovec, Consent or a license agreement? Response to Prof. Telec. Súhlas alebo licenčná zmluva? Reakcia na článok prof. Telca 8(4) Revue pro právo a technologie, pp. 3-8
  5. [SK] Martin Husovec, Is it still possible to claim the domain name transfer? Je ešte stále možné žalovať o prevod domény? 6 Revue pro právo a technologie, pp. 3-10
  6. [SK] Martin Husovec, Judicial harmonization of the copyright term ‘work’ in the Union law Judikatórna harmonizácia pojmu autorského diela v únijnom práve. 12 Bulletin slovenskej advokácie, pp. 16-20
  7. [SK] Martin Husovec, On the European “revision” of the copyright subject matter K európskemu “prepisovaniu” pojmových znakov autorského diela 4 Duševné vlastníctvo, pp. 24-27
  8. [SK] Martin Husovec, Is it possible to claim the domain name transfer? Je možné žalovať o prevod domény? 1 Revue pro právo a technologie, pp. 29-35
  9. [SK] Martin Husovec, Interpretation of the article 5(1) and (2) of trademark directive in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of European Union Výklad článku 5(1) a (2) známkovej smernice v judikatúre Súdneho dvora EÚ 1 Časopis Průmyslové vlastnictví
  10. [SK] Martin Husovec, Recognizing claim and the action of recognition in the field of intellectual property law Uznávací nárok a uznávacia žaloba v práve duševného vlastníctva 4 Justičná Revue, pp. 642-649
  11. [SK] Matej Gera and Martin Husovec, Štefan Szilva and Petra Zabuďková, Digital public administration and human rights [Digitálna verejná správa a ľudské práva] (European Information Society Institute (EISi), 2015

Case Books

  1. [CZ] Martin Husovec a Martin Loučka, Selected (Czech) case-law in the area of domain names [Vybraná judikatura z oblasti doménových sporů] (Wolters Kluwer, 2019) – available here.
  2. [SK] Martin Husovec, Domain Reader: Selected Slovak domain name decisions. [Doménová čítanka. Výber zo slovenských doménových rozhodnutí] (EISI, 2013) – available here.

 Reports

  1. [EN] Justus Baron, Jorge Contreras, Martin Husovec, Pierre Larouche, Nikolaus Thumm, The Technical Standardization Ecosystem and Institutional Decision Making: The case of SDO IPR policies and their inter-dependencies
  2. [EN] Alexander de Streel and Martin Husovec, The e-commerce Directive as the cornerstone of the Internal Market (2020, European Parliament)

My Slovak papers can be generally found here.

For a full list of my publications, click here.