Fay Carathanassis
Research assistant
Tel.: +49 89 - 907793 - 302
f.carathanassis@tum.de
TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
Department Governance
Richard-Wagner-Straße 1
80333 München
Room H.215
Office Hours: By appointment
Fay Carathanassis studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. During her studies she focused on competition law, intellectual property and media law. She then completed her legal clerk-ship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich. During her legal clerkship, she worked in the 33rd Civil Law Chamber of the Regional Court of Munich I (in the field of industrial property rights; copyright and film law), in a renowned media law firm and in the legal department of The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH.
Since May 2021 she has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Law and Security in Digital Transformation of Professor Dr. Dirk Heckmann. In this context, she also provides editorial support for the websites of the Chair and TUM Center for Digital Public Services (TUM CDPS) and provided significant support in the organization of the 17th and 18th International For..Net Symposium. In addition, she has been working at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) since November 2023 as a research assistant in the project "Challenges of Regulating Digital Communication Platforms", researching, among other things, legal issues relating to hate speech. She is doing her doctorate in media law.
Summer term 2024
| Title | Type | Duration | Dates | Lecturer (assistant) |
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| (SOT110039) Legal Foundations of Digital Transformation | VO | 2 |  |
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| (SOT82521) Debate course with media law content | SE | 2 | |
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| (SOT82530) Media Law and Social Media | SE | 2 | |
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- Gesamtmoderation des 2. Tages des 18. Internationalen For..Net Symposiums 2024, Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) und TUM Center for Digital Public Services (TUM CDPS), am 19.04.2024.
- Moderation des Panels „Demokratiegefährdung durch Deepfakes und Desinformation“ am 1. Tag des 18. Internationalen For..Net Symposiums 2024, Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) und TUM Center for Digital Public Services (TUM CDPS), am 18.04.2024.
- Moderation der Diskussionsrunde „European, National and Regional Perspectives on the Digital Services Act (DSA)”, Multi-Stakeholder Workshop „Facilitating Constructive Dialog – Combating Online Hate Speech”, TUM Think Tank, am 16.11.2023.
- Vortrag „Hate Speech in light of the Digital Services Act (DSA)”, Lehrveranstaltung „Development of Data Analysis Tools and Communication Strategies to Address Harmful Online Content (TUM Projekt Week)” des Lehrstuhls Public Policy, Governance & Innovative Technology, am 26.10.2023. Videoaufzeichnung
- Vortrag „Hate Speech in light of the Digital Services Act (DSA)”, Lehrveranstaltung „Development of Data Analysis Tools and Communication Strategies to Address Harmful Online Content (TUM Projekt Week)” des Lehrstuhls Public Policy, Governance & Innovative Technology, am 26.10.2023.
- Vortrag „Steuerung privater Onlinekommunikation auf Social Media - Auslotung der Grenzen der Äußerungsfreiheit angesichts neuer Regulierungen“, 24. Herbstakademie 2023 - Das IT-Recht vor der (europäischen) Zeitenwende?, Deutsche Stiftung für Recht und Informatik (DSRI), am 15.09.2023. Videoaufzeichnung
- Reboot Social Media Lab Podcast Series on the Digital Services Act (DSA), zusammen mit Daan Herpers und Fernanda Sauca, TUM Think Tank (auf Englisch/in English):
- Gesamtmoderation des 2. Tages des 17. Internationalen For..Net Symposiums 2023, Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) und TUM Center for Digital Public Services (TUM CDPS), am 20.04.2023.
- Projektleitung im Projekt „Social Media Leitfaden für Beschäftigte im Öffentlichen Dienst“, 2023 (https://sml.tum-cdps.de/en)