The European Union and the Search for an International Data Protection Framework

TY - JOUR

T1 - The European Union and the Search for an International Data Protection Framework

AU - Kuner, Christopher Barth

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - The European Union (EU) has supported the growing calls for the creation of an international legal framework to safeguard data protection rights. At the same time, it has worked to spread its data protection law to other regions, and recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) have reaffirmed the autonomous nature of EU law and the primacy of EU fundamental rights law. The tension between initiatives to create a global data protection framework and the assertion of EU data protection law raises questions about how the EU can best promote data protection on a global level, and about the EU’s responsibilities to third countries that have adopted its system of data protection.

AB - The European Union (EU) has supported the growing calls for the creation of an international legal framework to safeguard data protection rights. At the same time, it has worked to spread its data protection law to other regions, and recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) have reaffirmed the autonomous nature of EU law and the primacy of EU fundamental rights law. The tension between initiatives to create a global data protection framework and the assertion of EU data protection law raises questions about how the EU can best promote data protection on a global level, and about the EU’s responsibilities to third countries that have adopted its system of data protection.

KW - Faculty of Law

KW - Data protection

KW - privacy

KW - EU law

KW - international law

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2352-2674

VL - 2

SP - 55

EP - 71

JO - Groningen Journal of International Law

JF - Groningen Journal of International Law

IS - 2

ER -