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Three papers recognised for the Top Policy Provocations at PLSC Europe 2025

24 October, 2025

PLSC Europe is full of fresh, timely ideas, and we want to support these ideas gaining visibility in front of policymakers. To support this the Standing Committee of PLSC Europe has been starting a new initiative: Top Policy Provocations.

Provocations are not conventional ‘best paper awards’. They are likely to be excellent scholarship, but not all excellent scholarship might be suited for this selection. We are looking specifically for papers that are most likely to make policymakers think, and potentially, make them act.

The Top Policy Provocation of the 2025 edition of PLSC Europe, hosted by the University of Leiden, from 23-24 October 2025 goes to:

How experienced are Data Protection Authorities in enforcement concerning AI? Lessons for the enforcement system of the AI Act, by Joanna Mazur, Claudio Novelli & Zuzanna Choińska

Beyond Individual Privacy: A Layered Model to Reassess the Legal Nature of Genetic Data, by Ruoxin Su

Beyond Schrems: The Unresolved Tensions Between US Government Access and the GDPR, by Johan David Michels, Ian Walden, Christopher Millard & Ulrich Wuermeling

Congratulations!

The PLSC Europe Top Policy Provocations have been selected by a selection committee composed of members of the PLSC Europe Standing Committee. Authors of the selected Provocations will be invited to present and discuss their work in Brussels in January 2026 as part of the CPDP – Data Protection Day, supported by Privacy Salon.

The announcing commitee!

The certificate for the Schrems paper!

The certificate for the paper on genetic data!

The certificate for the AI enforcement paper!

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May, 2025

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