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CUHK LAW CLINDS’s 28th Law & Digital Society Seminar – ‘Enforcement under the GDPR: A Global Regulatory Model or Dystopian Overreach?’ by Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker
2026年9月3日
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Graduate Law Centre 2/F, Bank of America Tower, 12 Harcourt Road Central, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown Univ.) holds the Chair in Public Law, Information Law and Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cologne, is the Director of its Institute of Digitalization and one of Germany’s leading legal experts on digital law. She has published nationally and internationally on constitutional and administrative law with a focus on privacy and data protection law, technology law, AI law, Internet platform regulation, and legal theory. Prof. Spiecker is the first lawyer to be elected to the German National Technology Academy (Acatech) and has published extensively for the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). She has advised parliaments, governments, companies and NGOs. Guest professorships have taken her e.g. to the U.S., Turkey, China, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, and many European countries.
Prof Spiecker has been appointed to numerous scientific advisory boards (e.g. Fraunhofer Institute and the Federal Network Regulatory Agency) and serves as a co-editor and/or founder of several national and international law journals, including the European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL) and Computer und Recht (CR). She is co-editor and lead author of the leading English-language commentary on the GDPR (Spiecker gen. Döhmann/Papakonstantinou/Hornung/te Hert (eds), General Data Protection Regulation: Article-by-Article Commentary (C.H. Beck/Hart, 2023).
clinds.law@cuhk.edu.hk
This presentation explores the enforcement architecture of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from an empirical and doctrinal perspective. In particular, it examines the effectiveness of its numerous enforcement measures (regulatory action by data protection authorities, administrative fines, compliance obligations, and liability for damages) and overlapping judicial pathways (administrative and civil courts). As other EU digital laws have adopted similar enforcement regimes, and comparable approaches have emerged internationally, it will also be discussed whether this enforcement model represents a successful manifestation of the “Brussels Effect” or an example of regulatory overreach.
Language: English
CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).
