Honorable Mentions for our article on
Access to Data for Environmental Purposes

The Chair for Law and Artificial Intelligence is honoured and thrilled to announce that Michèle Finck's and Marie-Sophie Müller's article Access to Data for Environmental Purposes: Setting the Scene and Evaluating Recent Changes to EU Data Law has been awarded Honorable Mentions as part of the JEL Richard Macrory Prize for Best Article 2023. The Prize and Honorable mentions are awarded for 'the most thought-provoking and innovative article published in the Journal in that year.' The Prize panel have motivated their decision as follows:

This article looks in depth at the extent to which EU law shapes the use of data for environmental sustainability purposes. It is both reflective and forward-looking, focusing on the recently enacted Data Governance Act and draft Data Act and the extent to which they have the potential to facilitate access to data sharing. Michèle and Marie-Sophie guide the reader through a complex web of legal instruments and develop a series of well-crafted arguments, shining a light on the fact that new EU legal developments in this space curtail rather than enhance the availability of data for environmental sustainability purposes.

We kindly and humbly thank the JEL Macrory Prize panel for their recognition of our work and look forward to continuing our research in the area of ecological data regulation.