Prof. Egbert Dommering (b. 1943) has been a Professor of Information Law (0,4 Fte) at the University of Amsterdam since 1988. He served as Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) between 1989 and 2004. During that period, he continued to work as a lawyer in The Hague for Buruma & Maris and in Amsterdam for Stibbe (from 1995) and for Brinkhof (from 2005). As a lawyer, he was involved in many of the leading cases in fields of law coinciding with IViR's research interests.

His most important (joint) publications include: Verbinding en Ontvlechting in de Communicatie. Een studie naar toekomstig overheidsbeleid voor de elektronische communicatie (1990), Handboek Telecommunicatierecht (1999), Informatierecht, fundamentele rechten voor de informatiemaatschappij (2000), Coding Regulation (2006), European Media Law (2008), Gevangen in de waarneming (valedictory lecture, 2008) and De jacht op Prometheus (selected articles and case-notes, 2008).

Upon retirement, he will hold the Chair, "Theory of Information Law", at IViR and remain at Brinkhof law firm. He is also a member of the national Advisory Commitee on Copyright and a member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

The ever growing complexity of regulating the information society, in: P. Kleve and K. van Noortwijk (eds.), Something bigger than yourself - Essays in honour of Richard de Mulder, Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam 2011, p. 1-15.

05.07.2011

Us and them, some critical remarks on the introduction Citizenship, Democracy and Pluralism by Chantal Mouffe in Felix Meritis in Amsterdam op 1 October 2010.

06.10.2010

(with O. Castendyk & A. Scheuer) European Media Law, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International 2008.

This book supplies the first in-depth commentary on EU media law, with detailed analysis of all important legislation and court decisions. Leading European lawyers with vast knowledge and practical experience of media law provide detailed expert commentary on European media law. The commentary interprets the law whenever possible article by article, section by section, and concept by concept, with reference to relevant case law and legal literature as issues arise. Illustrating their reasoning throughout with practical examples, the authors also take account of anticipated developments and future reforms that are likely to have an impact on the existing legislation.

This book can be purchased through Kluwer Law International. See also the book review published in The Journal of Media Law, 2009-1, p. 129-132.

19.09.2008

Regulating technology: Code is not law, in: E.J. Dommering & L.F. Asscher (eds.), Coding Regulation: Essays on the Normative Role of Information Technology, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press 2006, p. 1-17.

23.11.2006

The collected essays in this book concern the intriguing matter of the interaction between law and technology and the normative role of information technology. More precisely, they focus on the way information and communication technologies regulate human behaviour. Can information technology be an alternative to legal regulation and, if so, what are the risks? 
The issues raised in this book were discussed during a conference entitled Code as Code, held in Amsterdam. The report of the debate between leading experts who attended the conference forms the round-up in the book, as do the proposals for a future agenda for research.

09.11.2006

(with Andrew Nicol) Report on the case of Rzeczpospolita, commissioned by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), December 2003.

See also: Legal Opinion of Professor Egbert Dommering  concerning the Freedom of the Press in relation to the numerous conflicts in and around the Company Presspublica between the government and the other shareholder, the management and the editors, presented in Warsaw, May 9, 2002.

Published 04.02.2004

‘Advertising and Sponsorship Law - Problems of Regulating Partly Liberalised Markets’, in: Europäisches Medienrecht - Fernsehen und seine gemeinschaftsrechtliche Regelung, Band 18 Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Europäisches Medienrecht, Saarbrücken Verlaggruppe Jehle Rehm: München/Berlin 1998, p. 49-60.

This article analyzes the jurisprudence of the ECJ on the interpretation of the TV Directive and more specifically on cross-border advertisements and sponsoring.

Published 03.08.1998

'The Dutch Audiovisual Landscape: An Interesting European Case', in: Santiago Munoz Machado (ed.), Derecho Europeo del Audiovisual, Tomo I, 521-534, Madrid: 1997.

This article analyzes the development of the Dutch broadcasting system in respect of European law.

Published 06.04.1998

'Copyright being washed away through the electronic sieve. Some thoughts on the impending copyright crisis', in: P.B. Hugenholtz (ed.), The future of copyright in a digital environment. Proceedings of the Royal Academy Colloquium organized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Institute for Information Law (Amsterdam 6-7 July 1995), Den Haag: Kluwer Law International 1996, p. 1-11. English revision of an article which was originally published in Computerrecht 1994, p. 109-113.

Copyright works are stored in electronically accessible data banks, presenting entirely new questions on the use of these works. People talk about making electrocopies of book pages. This article views electrocopies as a spectre from the paper era. We will have to develop entirely new concepts for the use of the information speeding along the electronic highways and offered to users by various media.

Published 06.04.1998

Updated 09.04.2013