Jaroslav Šuchman

Tongue in cheek on the topic of “My Legal Specializations”: I’m not the biggest fan of information technology, mainly because of the ever-increasing dependence of everything and everyone on tech. The very nature of which we’re now failing to understand ourselves, hiding behind terms like “prediction,” “stochasticity,” or “non-determinism.” I don’t spend my time playing games either, including gambling games. And regulation—or rather, managing it as smoothly as possible, including, in particular, data protection—interests me “only” as a legal phenomenon. However, I firmly believe in the civilizing role of legal communities of states, especially those like the European Union, even though—or perhaps precisely because—it is the EU that is churning out one regulation after another from its nearly three dozen sleeves. After all, behind them are always the Member States and their governments.