Publications

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Edited Books

  • J. Czarnocki, P. Pałka (eds.), “Proportionality in EU Digital Law: Balancing Conflicting Rights and Interests” Bloomsbury/Hart [2024] publisher’s website
  • B. Brożek, O. Kanevskaia, P. Pałka (eds.), “Research Handbook on Law and Technology” Edward Elgar Publishing [2023] Elgar online

Articles

  • P. Pałka, F. Lagioia, R. Liepina, M. Lippi & G. Sartor, Make privacy policies longer and appoint LLM readers, Artificial Intelligence & Law (2025), open access
  • P. Pałka, A. Porębski, R. Pałosz, K. Wiśniewska, Do Foreign Service Providers Simply Ignore the EU Consumer Law? An Empirical Study of 100 Online Terms of Service, Journal of Consumer Policy (2025), open access
  • P. Pałka, R. Pałosz, A. Porębski, K. Wiśniewska, A dataset on the contents of 100 terms of service of online platforms, analyzed and evaluated under the EU consumer law, Data in Brief (2024), open access
  • C. Guitton, S. Mayer, A. Tamo-Larrieux, D. Van Landuyt, E. Fosch-Villaronga, I. Kamara & P. Pałka, Responsible automatically processable regulation, AI & Society (2024), open access
  • P. Pałka, Terms of Injustice, West Virginia Law Review Vol. 126 (2023) ssrn, open access
  • F. Brito Bastos, P. Pałka, Is Centralised General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement a Constitutional Necessity? European Constitutional Law Review (2023), open access
  • P. Pałka, Harmed While Anonymous: Beyond the Personal/Non-Personal Distinction in Data Governance, Technology and Regulation (2023), open access
  • K. Wiśniewska, P. Pałka, The impact of the Digital Content Directive on online platforms’ Terms of Service, Yearbook of European Law (preview 2023), open access
  • P. Pałka, P. Bystranowski, B. Janik, M. Próchnicki, When “a Citizen” Becomes Little Mary J. The Abstract-concrete Effects in Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Law, DIRITTO & QUESTIONI PUBBLICHE (preview 2023), open access
  • P. Pałka, Ciało obce: zasady RODO a gospodarka rynkowa, iKAR Vol. 5 No. 11 (2022), open access
  • P. Pałka, The World of Fifty (Interoperable) Facebooks, Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (2021) open access, ssrn
  • P. Pałka, Algorithmic Central Planning: Between Efficiency and Freedom, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 125-149 (2020) open access, ssrn
  • P. Pałka, Data Management Law for the 2020s: The Lost Origins and the New Needs, Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 559-640 (2020) open access, ssrn
  • M. Lippi, G. Contissa, A. Jabłonowska, F. Lagioia, H.-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, The Force Awakens: Artificial Intelligence for Consumer Law, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 67, pp. 169-190 (2020) open access
  • M. Lippi, P. Pałka, G. Contissa, F. Lagioia, Hans-W. Micklitz, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, CLAUDETTE: An Automated Detector of Potentially Unfair Clauses in Online Terms of Service, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 117–139 (2019) publisher’s website, arXiv
  • H.-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, Y. Panagis, The Empire Strikes Back: Digital Control of Unfair Terms of Online Services, Journal of Consumer Policy, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 367–388 (2017) publisher’s website, preprint
  • P. Pałka, On Philosophy of Legal Education. An Analytical Sketch, Studia Iuridica Universitatis Varsoviensis, Vol. 62, pp. 209-218 (2016) pdf

Book Chapters

  • P. Pałka, Consumers, online environments, and privacy, Empirics and Consumer Law in Changing Markets, G. Veldt, K. Heidary, V. Mak, Edward Elgar Publishing (2025, forthcoming) ssrn
  • P. Pałka, Terms of Service of Social Media Platforms, Research Handbook on Social Media Law, T. Hoffmeister, M. Bromberg (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing (2025 forthcoming) ssrn
  • P. Pałka, A. Jabłonowska, Consumer Law and Artificial Intelligence, Research Handbook on Law and Artificial Intelligence Woodrow Barfield & Ugo Pagallo (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing (2024 forthcoming) ssrn
  • P. Pałka, AI, Consumers & Psychological Harm, ‘AI and Consumers,’ Larry DiMatteo, Cristina Poncibò, Martin Hogg, Geraint Howells (eds.), Cambridge University Press (2024, forthcoming) ssrn
  • P. Pałka, B. Brożek, How Not to Get Bored, or Some Thoughts on the Methodology of Law & Technology, in ‘Research Handbook on Law and Technology’ B. Brożek, O. Kanevskaia, P. Pałka (eds.), Edward Elgar (2023) ssrn
  • O. Kanevskaia, P. Pałka, Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Technology, in ‘Research Handbook on Law and Technology’ B. Brożek, O. Kanevskaia, P. Pałka (eds.), Edward Elgar (2023) open access
  • P. Pałka, Distributive Consequences of Regulating Boilerplate: Between Price Effects and Socialization of Risk, in R. Woodcock ed., Cambridge University Press (2023, forthcoming), ssrn
  • P. Pałka & K. Wiśniewska, Normative Considerations in Data-driven Personalization of Consumer Insurance Contracts, in C. Poncibò & P. Tereszkiewicz eds., Springer (2023, forthcoming) ssrn
  • P. Pałka, Więcej niż dane: Ku teorii kosztów mentalnych ponoszonych przez użytkowników platform, in Wyzwania dla prawa konsumenckiego w wymiarze globalnym, regionalnym i lokalnym, M. Namysłowska, K. Podgórski & E. Sługocka-Krupa eds., C.H. Beck (2022) publisher’s website, preprint
  • P. Pałka, Some Light Remarks on Methodology of Law & Technology, in Contract Law for the Age of Digital Platforms? E. Bargelli & V. Calderai eds., Pacini Editore (2022) publisher’s website, preprint
  • P. Pałka, Private Law and Cognitive Science, in Law and Mind, J. Hage & B. Brożek eds., Cambridge University Press (2021) publisher’s website, preprint
  • P. Pałka & Marco Lippi, Big Data Analytics, Online Terms of Service and Privacy Policies, in Big Data Law Research Handbook, R. Vogl ed., Edward Elgar (2021) publisher’s website, preprint
  • A. Jabłonowska, P. Pałka, EU Consumer and Artificial Intelligence, in The Transformation of Economic Law: Essays in Honour of Hans Micklitz, L. de Almeida, M. Cantero Gamito, M. Durovic & K. P. Purnhagen eds., Hart (2019) publisher’s website, preprint
  • P. Pałka, Terms of Service Are not Contracts: Beyond Contract Law in the Regulation of Online Platforms, in European Contract Law in the Digital Age, S. Grundmann ed., Intersentia (2018) publisher’s website

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  • R. Liepina, G. Contissa, K. Drazewski, F. Lagioia, H-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, GDPR Privacy Policies in CLAUDETTE: Challenges of Omission, Context and Multilingualism, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text (ASAIL 2019) open access
  • G. Contissa, K. Docter, F. Lagioia, M. Lippi, Hans-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, Automated Processing of Privacy Policies Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Vol. 313: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2018, M. Palmirani ed., IOS Press (2018) open access
  • G. Contissa, F. Lagioia, M. Lippi, Hans-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, Towards Consumer-Empowering Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 5150-5157 (IJCAI 2018) open access
  • G. Contissa, F. Lagioia, M. Lippi, Hans-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, Y. Panagis, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, Automated Detection of Unfair Clauses in Online Consumer Contracts Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Vol. 312: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2017, A. Wyner & G. Casisni eds., IOS Press (2017) open access

Working Papers & Reports

  • P. Pałka, M. Lippi, F. Lagioia, R. Liepiņa, G. Sartor, No More Trade-Offs. GPT and Fully Informative Privacy Policies, arXiv
  • M. Kuziemski, P. Pałka, AI-Governance Post-GDPR: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead, EUI School of Transnational Governance Policy Brief 2019/07 open access
  • G. Contissa, K. Docter, F. Lagioia, M. Lippi, Hans-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, G. Sartor & P. Torroni, Claudette Meets GDPR: Automating the Evaluation of Privacy Policies Using Artificial Intelligence, A Report Authored for the European Consumer Organization ssrn (2018)
  • A. Jabłonowska, M. Kuziemski, A.M. Nowak, H-W. Micklitz, P. Pałka, G. Sartor, Consumer Law and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges to the EU Consumer Law and Policy Stemming from the Business’ Use of Artificial Intelligence – Final report of the ARTSY Project, EUI Department of Law Research Paper 2018/11 ssrn (2018)
  • P. Pałka, A. Jabłonowska, H.-W. Micklitz, G. Sartor, Before Machines Consume the Consumers: High-Level Takeaways from the Artsy Project, EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2018/12 ssrn (2018)
  • P. Pałka, Redefining ‘Property’ in the Digital Era: When Online, Do as the Romans Did, EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2016/08 ssrn (2016)

PhD Thesis

  • P. Pałka, Virtual Property: Towards a General Theory, PhD Thesis open access (2017)