Professional Biography
Goran Kolouch is an independent researcher specializing in the Digital Services Act — how EU platform regulation is written, and how it actually gets enforced. His work returns consistently to one throughline: minority and child-protection rights that exist clearly in law but fail, in practice, to reach the people they're meant to protect.
His research spans 27 countries, combining legal analysis with documented enforcement records — fine totals, investigation timelines, platform transparency data — to identify precisely where regulatory frameworks break down between the text of the law and its application. Beyond published research, this has included formal complaints and regulatory submissions filed directly with the European Commission.
Goran holds an LL.B. in International Law and Human Rights from Hogeschool Leiden (2021). He publishes in English, German, Dutch, Croatian, and Spanish, and makes his research freely available — work intended for public use, in service of a more just and enforceable rights framework.
Mission Statement
"My work exists to close the gap between what EU law promises minorities and children, and what they can actually access. Research that stays in a drawer doesn't help anyone — so everything I publish is public, freely available, and written to be used: by regulators, by journalists, by the people the law is supposed to protect."