https://barczentewicz.com/publication/Recent content in Research papers from Mikołaj Barczentewiczen2026 Mikołaj BarczentewiczFri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/ai-access-to-justice-linking-tool/Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/ai-access-to-justice-linking-tool/Authors: Hadeel Saadany, Constantin Orasan, Catherine Breslin, Mikołaj Barczentewicz, Sophie Walker The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence across domains presents new opportunities to enhance access to justice. In this paper, we introduce a human-centric AI tool that utilises advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to facilitate semantic linking between written UK Supreme Court (SC) judgements and their corresponding hearing videos.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/risks-in-staking-and-block-building/Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/risks-in-staking-and-block-building/Paper commissioned and published by Solidus Labs. Co-authored with James Airo, Nathan Catania, Delphine Forma, Eric Medoff, Michael Mosier, Rebecca Rettig, and Evan Zinaman Contents: I. Introduction II. Staking explained (by Mikołaj Barczentewicz)https://barczentewicz.com/publication/linking-court-judgement-text-hearing-videos/Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/linking-court-judgement-text-hearing-videos/Authors: Hadeel Saadany, Constantin Orasan, Mikołaj Barczentewicz, Catherine Breslin, Sophie Walker One the most important archived legal material in the UK is the video recordings of Supreme Court hearings and their corresponding judgements.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/mica-market-abuse/Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/mica-market-abuse/co-authored with André de Gândara Gomes The new EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (‘MiCA’) emphasizes the prevention of market abuse as one of its five main objectives. This paper critically analyzes MiCA’s provisions on market abuse (Title VI), applying the new rules to the primary categories of crypto-asset market integrity risks to provide a coherent interpretation.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/2024-04-csa-proposal/Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/2024-04-csa-proposal/Legal opinion commissioned by DOT Europe. This opinion presents the views of the authors and does not necessarily represent the position of DOT Europe or of its members. Co-authored with Jan Bednarski and Michał Czarnuch from the Rymarz Zdort Maruta law firmhttps://barczentewicz.com/publication/libe-gdpr-enforcement-report/Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/libe-gdpr-enforcement-report/This legal analysis was commissioned by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe). The opinions offered herein are purely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views of CCIA Europe.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/constitutionally-conforming-interpretation-poland/Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/constitutionally-conforming-interpretation-poland/co-authored with Marcin Matczak The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, it intends to show how constitutionally conforming interpretation (CCI) is understood in the Polish theory of legal interpretation and how it is applied by the Polish courts.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/iosco-defi-consultation-mev-10-2023/Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/iosco-defi-consultation-mev-10-2023/IOSCO is correct to identify conflicts of interest (Recommendation 4) and operational and technological risks (Recommendation 5) as issues of concern in DeFi that need to be addressed by providers of DeFi products and services.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/schrems-iii-validity-of-adequacy-decision-for-united-states/Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/schrems-iii-validity-of-adequacy-decision-for-united-states/The EU Court of Justice’s (CJEU) July 2020 Schrems II decision generated significant uncertainty, as well as enforcement actions in various EU countries, as it questioned the lawfulness of transferring data to the United States under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)1 while relying on “standard contractual clauses.https://barczentewicz.com/publication/interpreting-dma-consistently-with-eu-charter-privacy/Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://barczentewicz.com/publication/interpreting-dma-consistently-with-eu-charter-privacy/Depending on implementation details, the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) may have negative consequences regarding information privacy and security. The DMA’s interoperability mandates are a chief example of this problem. Some of the DMA’s provisions that pose risks to privacy and to the protection of personal data are accompanied either by no explicit safeguards or by insufficient safeguards.