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… voluntary, inclusive and legitimate?’, 20-21 September, Maastricht University Campus Brussels. People Dr. Bilyana Petkova joined the Department of International and European Law and MCEL as an Assistant Professor and is currently affiliated as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Information Society Project. Previously, Bilyana was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and at the New York University, where she was part of the Jean Monnet Center and the … P. van der Mei, J. H. Pohl, N. Gundt, and D. Fromage. The research fora also gave the stage to T. Nguyen, Z. Vankova and P. Melin to present and practice their PhD defences. Members of MCEL also participated in and organised various conferences, workshops and lectures. M. Eliantonio organised the three-day SoLaR conference on ‘EU environmental soft law and its reception in the Member States’. A. Ott was invited to attend an international conference and a roundtable with business representatives in … advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their implications for the developments of the Digital Single Market. Together with T. Ojanen (University of Helsinky), B. Petkova organised a workshop on the judicial response to the evolving role of online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, other social media and search engines. Upon invitation of the Department of International Law, M. Peeters attended the XVI Blischenko Conference on Public International Law at the Peoples’ Friendship …

… stresses that new products alone will not do the job. Celebrated innovators like Thomas Edison, Henri Ford, or Steve Jobs did not start working from signals of “need”, but from visions about a new system that could work, provided a mass market would buy the products and services. In his voluminous Networks of Power, the historian Thomas Hughes describes in detail the strategies Thomas Edison used to build new empires. “I have the right vision”, he said and sought ways to involve others in his …