Martin Fertmann

Martin Fertmann is an associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). He investigates how international human rights standards and national and European regulation shape the actions of global platform companies. He studied law in Hamburg and Beijing. He has worked as a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg since 2020, where he has conducted several interdisciplinary research projects on platform regulation. He has conducted research as a visiting scholar at the Universities of Sorbonne (LIP6), Oslo (Norwegian Center for Human Rights) and Harvard (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society).

His work has appeared in journals such as Wissenschaftsrecht, European Journal of International Law, and Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik. In an Article-by-Article Commentary on European digital regulation (DSA/DMA), he is responsible for the commentary on Art. 20, 21 and 86 DSA. Martin regularly presents his work at international conferences – most recently, he spoke at the University of Oxford on the human rights responsibilities of tech companies and at Columbia University on European platform regulation.