Dr. M Maroni

Biography

After joining Maastricht University, I obtained my PhD cum laude in Constitutional Law from the University of Helsinki, where I worked at the Erik Castrén Institute Legal Tech Lab as an affiliated fellow. My research focuses on constitutionalism in relation to Internet infrastructure and governance, emphasizing the role of law in regulating digital technologies and their transformative impact on contemporary societal constitutional arrangements. I combine social theory, law, sociology of constitutions, legal analysis, and science and technology studies to study forms of concentrated power and the inequalities and exclusions caused by Internet technologies. I am currently revising my PhD dissertation, titled 'The Right of Access to the Internet: A Critical Analysis of the Constitutionalisation of the Internet', for publication as a monograph in Routledge's socio-legal series. This book elaborates on the conceptualisation of the right of access and the principle of the organisation of the Internet, providing a historical account of the development of Internet regulations and legal analysis of practices regarding the regulation of private corporations such as ICANN, ISPs, and digital media platforms. It articulates a critical, empirically driven analysis of the extant liberal understanding of digital constitutionalism. I have also published papers and chapters on freedom of expression, EU law, platform governance, and algorithmic content moderation, with a particular focus on recommender systems and media pluralism. My publications also examine the co-production dynamics of law and corporate power.

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