Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Aade, L., & Goanta, C. (2025). Ban-It-Harderism in European Consumer Law: The Case of the French Influencer Law. Journal of Consumer Policy. [DOI]
Annabell, T., Goanta, C., Kelder, T., & Pflücke, F. (2025). Sponsored by the State: The Private Regulation of Government Influencers. Journal of Consumer Policy. [DOI]
Ortolani, P., Vahed, S., Goanta, C., & Sanfey, A. G. (2025). The Digital Services Act and the psychology of social media content reporting: drawing legal inferences from a behavioural experiment on notice-and-action mechanisms. European Law Open. [DOI]
Annabell, T., Kelder, T., van de Kerkhof, J., Gui, H., & Goanta, C. (2025). Influencer as individual and trader: exploring the boundaries of discrimination in influencer marketing from a multidisciplinary perspective. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. [DOI]
van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2025). Van Code is Wet naar Wet is Code Geautomatiseerde Transparantie in de Digitaledienstenverordening. Tijdschrift voor Internetrecht, 2025(1), 19-26. https://denhollander.info/artikel/18576 [Portal]
Gui, H., Costa Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., de Vries, S., & Spanakis, G. (2025). Across Platforms and Languages: Dutch Influencers and Legal Disclosures on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. In L. M. Aiello, T. Chakraborty, & S. Gaito (Eds.), Social Networks Analysis and Mining: 16th International Conference, ASONAM 2024, Rende, Italy, September 2–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part III (1 ed., pp. 3-12). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 15213 LNCS). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Divon, T., Annabell, T., & Goanta, C. (2025). Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok. New Media and Society. Advance online publication. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C., Camps, M., Costa Bertaglia, T., Spanakis, J., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). Child en family influencers op sociale media in Nederland. (1 ed.) (Handhaving en Gedrag). Boom. https://www.boom.nl/criminologie/100-15052_Child-en-family-influencers-op-sociale-media-in-Nederland [Portal]
Aletras, N., Chalkidis, I., Barrett, L., Goanta, C., Preotiuc-Pietro, D., & Spanakis, G. (2024). Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://aclanthology.org/2024.nllp-1.0.pdf [Portal]
Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). The Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement. In OASIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Media, Held in conjunction with the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2024 (pp. 1-9). (OASIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Media, Held in conjunction with the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2024). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Portal]
van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2024). Digital Constitutionalism and Consumer Protection. In G. De Gregorio, O. Pollicino, & P. Valcke (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Constitutionalism Oxford University Press. [DOI]
Goanta, C. (2024). Comparative Law and Cyberspace. In J. Husa (Ed.), A research agenda for comparative law Edward Elgar Publishing.
Kaushal, R., van de Kerkhof, J., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). Automated Transparency: A Legal and Empirical Analysis of the Digital Services Act Transparency Database. In FAccT '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 1121 - 1132). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Portal]
Vahed, S., Goanta, C., Ortolani, P., & Sanfey, A. G. (2024). Moral judgment of objectionable online content: Reporting decisions and punishment preferences on social media. PLoS One, 19(3 ), 1-20. Article e0300960. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
van de Kerkhof, J., de Gregorio, G., De Meyere, J., Gentile, G., Goanta, C., & Kuczerawy, A. (2024). Policy Brief for the European Commission's Digital Services Act Delegated Act on Data Access Consultation. European Commission. [Portal]
van de Kerkhof, J., Annabell, T., Goanta, C., Iamnitchi, A., Kaushal, R., & Spanakis, G. (2024). Policy Brief for the European Commission's Digital Services Act Delegated Act on Data Access consultation. European Commission. [Portal]
2023
Scholarly publications
Duivenvoorde, B., & Goanta, C. (2023). The regulation of digital advertising under the DSA: A critical assessment. Computer Law and Security Review, 51, 1-14. Article 105870. [DOI] [Repository]
Villegas, D. S., Goanta, C., & Aletras, N. (2023). A Multimodal Analysis of Influencer Content on Twitter. (pp. 1-16). [Repository]
Chalkidis, I., Garneau, N., Goanta, C., Katz, D. M., & Søgaard, A. (2023). LeXFiles and LegalLAMA: Facilitating English Multinational Legal Language Model Development. In A. Rogers, J. Boyd-Graber, & N. Okazaki (Eds.), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 15513–15535). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.865.pdf [Repository]
Goanta, C. (2023). Digital Market Surveillance: The Role of Automation in Consumer Protection Enforcement. In AI Governance in the EU & Consumer Protection (pp. 343-364). Larcier.
Mol, C., & Goanta, C. (2023). Shedding light on child influencers: Insights on the influencer economy, Dutch private law and children's rights. Tijdschrift voor Familie- en Jeugdrecht, 2023(7/8), 185-194. Article 36. https://www.navigator.nl/document/id0d5cce26dd4b488da6a05b2a07bece06/tijdschrift-voor-familie-en-jeugdrecht-shedding-light-on-child-influencers [Repository]
Goanta, C., & Costa Bertaglia, T. (2023). Digital Influencers, Monetization Models and Platforms as Transactional Spaces. Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, 3(1), 242-259. [DOI] [Repository]
Goanta, C., Straub, M., & van de Kerkhof, J. (2023). Social Media Contracts: The Quest for Fairness and the Need for Reform. Web publication/site, Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/radical-reforms/
Bertaglia, T., Huber, S., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2023). Closing the Loop: Testing ChatGPT to Generate Model Explanations to Improve Human Labelling of Sponsored Content on Social Media. (pp. 1-16). arXiv. [DOI] [Repository]
Goanta, C. (2023). The New Social Media: Contracts, Consumers, and Chaos. Iowa Law Review Online, 108, 118-130. https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-108-response-pieces/2023/05/new-social-media-contracts-consumers-and-chaos [Repository]
Goanta, C. (2023). Content Monetization on Twitter: A Study of Platform Documentation and Transatlantic Legal Implications. (pp. 1-22). (TTLF Working Papers ; Vol. 103). Stanford University. http://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TTLF-WP-103-Goanta.pdf [Repository]
Duivenvoorde, B., & Goanta, C. (2023). Contracten tussen socialmediaplatforms en gebruikers: Biedt het BW evenwicht? In W. V. Boom (Ed.), Vooruitgedenkboek Burgerlijk Wetboek 1992-2022 (1 ed., pp. 113-127). Boom Juridisch. [Repository]
Professional publications
Aade, L., Annabell, T., Costa Bertaglia, T., Iamnitchi, A., van de Kerkhof, J., Goanta, C., & Gui, H. (2023). Policy Brief for the European Commission's Digital Services Act implementation consultation. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13626-Digital-Services-Act-conducting-independent-audits/F3424101_en [Repository]
Aade, L., van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2023). Policy brief for French government public consultations on influencer regulation (Consultation publique “Influenceurs / Créateur de contenus”).
Popularising publications
Goanta, C. (2023). Liver King: how the rise of mega-influencers has put consumers at risk. Web publication/site, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/liver-king-how-the-rise-of-mega-influencers-has-put-consumers-at-risk-196445
2022
Scholarly publications
Aletras, N., Chalkidis, I., Barrett, L., Goanta, C., & Preotiuc-Pietro, D. (Eds.) (2022). Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022: Proceedings of the Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1
Busch, C., Goanta, C., Kryla-Cudna, K., Leszczynska, M., & Mak, V. (2022). Should Data Drive Private Law? Technology and Regulation, 2022, 81-87. [DOI] [Repository]
Luzak, J., & Goanta, C. (2022). #Paidpartnership Means More than Money: Influencer Disclosure Obligations in the Aftermath of Peek & Cloppenburg. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML) , 2022(5), 188-191. https://kluwerlawonline.com/api/Product/CitationPDFURL?file=Journals%5CEuCML%5CEuCML2022031.pdf [Repository]
Goanta, C., & Ortolani, P. (2022). Unpacking content moderation: The rise of social media platforms as online civil courts. In X. Kramer, J. Hoevenaars, B. Kas, & E. Themeli (Eds.), Frontiers in Civil Justice: Privatisation, Monetisation and Digitisation (pp. 192–216). Edward Elgar Publishing. [DOI] [Portal]
Erker, J.-J., Goanta, C., & Spanakis, G. (2022). A Cancel Culture Corpus through the Lens of Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of The First Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for a Fair, Inclusive, and Safe Society within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 17-25) http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/LATERAISSE/index.html [Repository]
Jaiman, V., Yohannis, A., Barrueco Mikelarena, E., Goanta, C., Covrig, B., & Urovi, V. (2022). DePhi: Decentralizing Philanthropy via Blockchain for Traceable Micro-transactions. In 2022 4th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS) (pp. 25-32)
Goanta, C., Costa Bertaglia, T., & Iamnitchi, A. (2022). The Case for a Legal Compliance API for the Enforcement of the EU's Digital Services Act on Social Media Platforms. 1341-1349. Paper presented at 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’22), Seoul, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. [DOI]
Goanta, C. (2022). The Ancient Alien: Good Faith as the Facilitator of Personalized Law. Web publication/site, The University of Chicago Law Review Online. https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2022/03/09/bp-goanta/
Goanta, C., & Spanakis, G. (2022). Discussing The Legitimacy of Digital Market Surveillance. Stanford Computational Antitrust, 2, 44-55. https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/goanta-spanakis.pdf [Repository]
Goanta, C., Yohanis, A., Jaiman, V., & Urovi, V. (2022). Web monetisation. Internet Policy Review, 11(1), 2-8. [DOI] [Repository]
Ranchordás, S., de Gregorio, G., & Goanta, C. (2022). Big Tech War Activism. Web publication/site, Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/big-tech-war-activism/
Covrig, B., Barrueco Mikelarena, E., Rosca, C., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Zarras, A. (2022). Upside Down: Exploring the Ecosystem of Dark Web Data Markets. In W. Meng, S. Fischer-Hübner, & C. D. Jensen (Eds.), ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 37th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13–15, 2022, Proceedings (1 ed., pp. 489–506). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ; Vol. 648). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
de Gregorio, G., & Goanta, C. (2022). The Influencer Republic: Monetizing Political Speech on Social Media. German Law Journal, 23(2), 204-225. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2022). Fakeness in Political Popularity. Web publication/site, Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/fakeness/
Michaelsen, F., Collini, L., Jacob, C., Goanta, C., Kettner, S. E., Bishop, S., Hausemer, P., Thorun, C., & Yesiloglu, S. (2022). The impact of influencers on advertising and consumer protection in the Single Market. European Parliament. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/IPOL_STU(2022)703350 [Repository]
Popularising publications
Goanta, C. (2022). Now What: Exploring the DSA’s Enforcement Futures in Relation to Social Media Platforms and Native Advertising. Web publication/site, Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-now-what/
2021
Scholarly publications
Costa Bertaglia, T., Dubois, A., & Goanta, C. (2021). Clout Chasing for the Sake of Content Monetization: Gaming Algorithmic Architectures with Self-Moderation Strategies. Morals & Machines, 2021(1), 22-29. [DOI]
Colombo, C., & Goanta, C. (2021). Airbnb in the European Union: The theory and practice of interpreting elements of algorithmic governance. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 12(3), 724-734. [DOI]
Goanta, C., & Ortolani, P. (2021). Content moderation als digitale conflictoplossing: Zijn sociale-mediaplatforms de rechtbanken van het internet? In P. Wolters, R. Hermans, A. Janssen, & P. Ortolani (Eds.), Onderneming en Digitale Conflictoplossing (pp. 171-188). (Serie Onderneming en Recht). Wolters Kluwer.
Rosca, C., Covrig, B., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Acar, G. (2021). Digital monitoring of unlawful dark patterns: What role for public interest technology?. https://chi2021.acm.org/for-authors/interacting-discussing/workshops-symposia/accepted-workshops-symposiums#W28
Cauffman, C., & Goanta, C. (2021). A New Order: The Digital Services Act and Consumer Protection. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 12(4), 758-774. [DOI] [Repository]
Goanta, C., & Zarras, A. (2021). Ransomware: Notes on the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the CoE International Convention on Cybercrime. (pp. 1-21). (TTLF Working Papers; Vol. 82). Stanford Law School. https://law.stanford.edu/publications/no-82-ransomware-notes-on-the-us-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-and-the-coe-international-convention-on-cybercrime/ [Repository]
Costa Bertaglia, T., Bishop, S., Bosher, H., Christin, A., Ershov, D., Goanta, C., de Gregorio, G., Newlands, G., Riefa, C., Spanakis, G., Yang, J., & Wildhaber, I. (2021). Written evidence on the 'Influencer culture' inquiry submitted to the UK Parliament Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
Goanta, C., Louisse, M., & Ortolani, P. (2021). Marketing Communications and the Digital Single Market. In P. Ortolani, & M. Louisse (Eds.), The EU Crowdfunding Regulation (pp. 287-298). Oxford University Press.
Aletras, N., Androutsopoulos, I., Barrett, L., Goanta, C., & Preotiuc-Pietro, D. (2021). Introduction. In T. A. F. C. Linguistics (Ed.), Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 (pp. iii-iii). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.0 [Repository]
Popularising publications
Goanta, C. (2021). Human Ads Beyond Targeted Advertising: Content monetization as the blind spot of the Digital Services Act. Web publication/site, Verfassungsblog.
2020
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C., & Ranchordás, S. (2020). The regulation of social media influencers: An introduction. In The Regulation of Social Media Influencers (pp. 1-22)
Goanta, C., & Ranchordás, S. (2020). The Regulation of Social Media Influencers. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Goanta, C. (2020). The private governance of identity on the Silk Road. Frontiers in Blockchain, 3, 1-10. [DOI]
Ranchordás, S., & Goanta, C. (2020). The new city regulators: Platform and public values in smart and sharing cities. Computer Law and Security Review, 36, 1-15. [DOI]
Rosca, C., Covrig, B., Goanta, C., van Dijck, G., & Spanakis, G. (2020). Return of the AI: An analysis of legal research on Artificial Intelligence using topic modeling. In N. Aletras, I. Androutsopoulos, L. Barrett, A. Meyers, & D. Preoţiuc-Pietro (Eds.), Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2020 (pp. 3-10). CEUR WS.
Goanta, C., Costa Bertaglia, T., Spanakis, G., de Gregorio, G., & Ranchordás, S. (2020). Comment submitted to the US Federal Trade Commission on Endorsement Guidelines update.
Goanta, C. (2020). Children on Social Media: A Comparison of COPPA [Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule] and the Revised AVMSD [Audiovisual Media Services Directive]. (pp. 1-18). (TTLF Working Papers). Stanford Law School.
Goanta, C., van Dijck, G., & Spanakis, G. (2020). Back to the future: Waves of legal scholarship on artificial intelligence. In S. Ranchordas, & Y. Roznai (Eds.), Time, Law, and Change (pp. 327-347). Hart Publishing.
Goanta, C., & Spanakis, G. (2020). Influencers and Social Media Recommender Systems: Unfair Commercial Practices in EU and US Law. (TTLF Working Papers). Stanford Law School.
Goanta, C., & Hopman, M. (2020). Crypto communities as legal orders. Internet Policy Review, 9(2), 1-22. [DOI]
2019
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C., & Mulders, S. (2019). ‘Move fast and break things’: Unfair commercial practices and consent on Social Media. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 8(4), 136-146.
Goanta, C. (2019). Review of: Marise Cremona (ed), New Technologies and EU Law , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, (288 p.). European Journal of Risk Regulation, 10(1), 236-239. [DOI]
Goanta, C., & Wildhaber, I. (2019). In the Business of Influence: Contractual practices and Social Media content monetisation. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Finanzmarktrecht, 91(4), 346.
Goanta, C., & Siems, M. (2019). What determines national convergence of EU law?: Measuring the implementation of consumer sales law. Legal Studies, 39(4), 714-734. [DOI]
Goanta, C., & Mulders, S. (2019). Eerst doen, dan denken? Social media, databrokers en oneerlijke handelspraktijken. Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie, 150(7221), 9-17.
Professional publications
Goanta, C., van Dijck, G., & Spanakis, G. (2019). Back to the future: Waves of legal scholarship on artificial intelligence. Web publication/site, Oxford University Press.
2018
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C. (2018). How Technology Disrupts Private Law: An Exploratory Study of California and Switzerland as Innovative Jurisdictions. (TTLF Working Papers). Stanford Law School.
Goanta, C. (2018). Facebook’s Data Sharing Practices under Unfair Competition Law. Transatlantic Antitrust and IPR Developments, 2018(2), 31-39.
Popularising publications
Goanta, C. (2018). How technology disrupts private law: An exploratory study of California and Switzerland as innovative jurisdictions. Web publication/site, University of Oxford.
2017
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C. (2017). Consumers on fyre: Influencer marketing and recent reactions of the United States Federal Trade Commission. Transatlantic Antitrust and IPR Developments, 2017(3), 35-38.
2016
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C. (2016). Convergence in European consumer sales law: A comparative and numerical approach. (Ius Commune Europaeum, 154 ed.) Intersentia. [DOI]
Goanta, C. (2016). The exploratory Study of Consumer Issues in the Sharing Economy, national report for Romania, European Commission, DG Justice and Consumers research tender CHAFEA/2015/CP/02.
2015
Scholarly publications
Kawakami, M., & Goanta, C. (2015). Even lawyers are consumers: perceiving business attitudes in online contracts. In M. B. M. Loos, & I. Samoy (Eds.), Information and notification duties (pp. 155-180). Intersentia.
Bull, W., Ge, J., Goanta, C., Kawakami, M., & Smits, J. M. (2015). Who does what in consumer law: a search for criteria for centralized lawmaking. In B. Akkermans, J. Hage, N. Kornet, & J. Smits (Eds.), Who does what in European private law? (pp. 97-123). (Ius Commune Europaeum). Intersentia.
2014
Scholarly publications
Smits, J. M., Bull, W., Goanta, C., & Kawakami, M. (2014). Ars Aequi Wetseditie European Private Law 2014-2016. (Ars Aequi Wetseditie). Ars Aequi.
2013
Scholarly publications
Goanta, C. (2013). Information Duties in the Internet Era: Case Note on Content Services Ltd v. Bundesarbeitskammer. European Review of Private Law, 3, 643-659.
Goanta, C. (2013). European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services research tender – ‘Inventory of Legal Form and Shareholding Requirements in the EU Services Sector and their Economic Assessment’, national report for Romania. European Commission.
2011
Scholarly publications
Cauffman, C., & Goanta, C. (2011). Injunctions at the Request of Third Parties (Ordine la cererea unor terti in dreptul UE al concurentei). Revista Romana de Drept European, 3, 66-94.