Digital constitutionalism describes the political process of entrenching rights and principles into the global governance of digital technologies, specifically the Internet. Digital constitutionalism does not describe actual legal constitutions but normative conversations about which rights and principles should govern the Internet – locally, nationally and globally. Documents of digital constitutionalism have been proposed by different kinds of actors – including civil society, business, governments, national parliaments, political parties, international organizations – and have emerged from a national level or transnationally.
The Digital Constitutionalism Network aims to systematically study the political, social, and legal processes involved in this field. The Network was created in late 2019 from a working group on digital constitutionalism supported by the Bochum-based Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). As of February 2020, the Network is comprised of members located at twelve universities in Africa, Australia and Europe.

Marianne Franklin
Professor, University of Groningen
Nicolas Suzor
Professor, Queensland Univeristy of Technology
Yves Schemeil
Emeritus Professor, University of Grenoble
Mauro Santaniello
Assistant Professor, University of Salerno
Claudia Padovani
Associate Professor, University of Padova
Nicola Palladino
Human+ Programme Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Clara Iglesias Keller
Postdoctoral Researcher, WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center
Kinfe Yilma
Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa University
Amelie Heldt
Digital Policy Officer at the Federal Chancellery, Berlin
Marta Maroni
Assistant Professor of Law and Digital Democracy, Maastricht University
Outi Puukko
PhD Researcher at University of Helsinki
Dennis Redeker
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bremen
Mariëlle Wijermars
Assistant Professor, Maastricht University