About me

Martin Husovec [pronounced Husovets, or Husoveck] is an Associate Professor of Law at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His scholarship deals with questions of innovation policy and digital liberties, particularly intellectual property law, platform regulation, and freedom of expression. Martin is the author of Principles of the Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press, 2024) and of the leading online course on the EU Digital Services Act, the DSA Specialist Masterclass.

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. He also represented NGOs that intervened in digital technology cases to support the public interest before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Martin previously acted as 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, freedom of expression, and privacy. His work has been repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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). Between 2015-2020, he was Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, appointed jointly by Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC). He held visiting appointments at Stanford Law School (2014), the Japanese Institute for Intellectual Property (2015), the Central European University (2018), the European University Institute (2018), and Cambridge University (2019). He remains to be fellow at CREATe, and TILEC. Martin is also a member of the European Copyright Society (ECS), a group of prominent European copyright scholars.

Present Affiliations

  • Associate Professor at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • CREATe Fellow at University of Glasgow (2020-Present)
  • TILEC Extramural Fellow at Tilburg University (07/2020-Present)

Past Affiliations

  • Affiliated Researcher at Stanford University, Centre for Internet and Society (starting in 12/2014)
  • Assistant Professor at Tilburg Law School, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC) (10/2015-06/2020)
  • Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, Faculty of Law (9-10/2019)
  • Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) (9-10/2018)
  • Visiting Professor at Central European University (CEU) (02/2018; 04/2019)
  • Guest Lecturer at Leibniz University, Institüt für Rechtsinformatik (09/2015-12/2016)
  • Visiting Researcher at Stanford University, Centre for Internet and Society (04/2014–06/2014)
  • Invited Researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo (09/2015–10/2015)
  • Tutor at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre (01/10/2013–30/09/2015)

Martin is a rapporteur of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on online safety and empowerment of content creators and users (MSI-eSEC). He has co-founded the European Information Society Institute (EISi), which spearheaded the data retention complaint in Slovakia, resulting in the invalidation of the Slovak implementation (PL. ÚS 10/2014). As part of EISi, he also co-founded a Slovak alternative dispute resolution system for the TLD sk (see adr.eisionline.org). In recent years, has advised the judges of the Slovak Constitutional Court in several important cases, including eKasa (PL. ÚS 25/2019) and Covid data (PL. ÚS 25/2019). In 2024, he also authored the modernisation of the Slovak unfair competition law, which is currently being incorporated into the effort to recodify the Slovak civil law.