PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, May 19th Thursday, May 20th Friday, May 21st
Wednesday, May 19th
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09:00-10:30 Session 1A: Human Rights and AI: Algorithmic decision-making and state surveillance
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| 09:00 | Why algorithmic decision-making in the criminal justice system needs to be evaluated from a constitutional perspective (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Government Surveillance (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Fraud detection, the digitisation of the welfare state, and the Dutch SyRI judgment (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 1B: Competition and Market Regulation: Regulation and institutions beyond competition law
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| 09:00 | Gatekeeper Power: Definition and Assessment (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act: Towards a New Competition Paradigm (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Regulating radical change: competition and data protection enforcement in times of COVID and digitalisation (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 1C: Data Governance: Social Protection and Biometrics Roundtable (part 1)
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| 09:00 | COVID-19 and biometric ID: implications for social protection (abstract) |
| 09:18 | Biometric ID systems in India and Kenya (abstract) |
| 09:36 | Governing the AI-enabled Health Code System in China: Using Facial and Health Data during and beyond COVID-19 (abstract) |
| 09:54 | How Facial Recognition technology is transforming the Welfare State: affecting social equality and data protection for the benefit of efficiency? (abstract) |
| 10:12 | Designing Privacy and Security in Community Networks with Hyperlocal Design: A case study in Rural India (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 3A: Energy and Climate Crisis: Data security and sharing in the energy sector
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| 13:30 | Sharing energy data: the intersection between data protection and energy legislation (abstract) |
| 14:00 | European data protection law and policies against climate change: conforming or diverging goals? (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Technology for the Energy Crisis: in search of a coordinated response to cybersecurity concerns of energy consumers (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 3B: Human Rights and AI: Algorithmic surveillance in electronic communications
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| 13:30 | Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values (abstract) |
| 14:00 | The Human Rights Challenges of using Emotional Artificial Intelligence for Surveillance (abstract)  |
| 14:30 | EU competence creep in the field of national security: Implications for mass surveillance of online communication (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 3C: IP Law: Tensions at the Intersection: Competition, SEPs and other IP
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| 13:30 | The crisis of property and user empowerment in the Internet of Things (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Should SEPs be licensed to component makers or producers of final products? A competition law perspective (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Enforcing Copyright Through Antitrust? A Transatlantic View of the Strange Case of News Publishers Against Digital Platforms (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 3D: Open Track: Law and the pandemic
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| 13:30 | Soft law as EU crisis response in public health emergencies (abstract) |
| 14:00 | COVID-19 AND COURTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Disinformation and Content Moderation in Times of Pandemics: The Lesson of European Digital Constitutionalism (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 3E: Data Governance: Social Protection and Biometrics Roundtable (part 2)
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| 13:30 | The automated deservedness: the social protection in Colombia after COVID-19 (abstract) |
| 13:52 | The Hourglass Architecture of Vaccine Distribution: From Aadhaar to DIVOC (abstract) |
| 14:14 | Transaction Failure Rates in the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System: Urgent Issues for Consideration and Proposed Solutions (abstract) |
| 14:36 | Has the digital welfare state led to greater exclusion of poor citizens in accessing social cash during the COVID-19 pandemic? Insights from Pakistan through the social justice lens (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 5A: Human Rights and AI: Human rights and surveillance technologies
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| 16:30 | Inter-Legality and Surveillance Technologies: Looking at the Demands of Justice beyond Borders (abstract) |
| 17:00 | AI in Smart Cities and Tackling Private and Public Surveillance Through Privacy by Design Principles (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The Surveillant University: Remote Proctoring, AI, and Human Rights (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 5B: Data Governance: Reconceiving Data Governance
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| 16:30 | Beyond Data Ownership (abstract) |
| 17:00 | CAN WE TRUST TRUST-BASED DATA GOVERNANCE MODELS? (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The (gendered) vulnerable data subject (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 5C: Open Track: Interactive Translation Workshop
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| 16:30 | INTERACTIVE TRANSLATION WORKSHOP: Exploring Divergent Meanings of Key Concepts in ‘Responsible AI’ with Scientometrics (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 5D: IP Law: Book presentation - Injunctions in Patent Law: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Flexibility and Tailoring
Jorge Contreras & Martin Husovec, eds., "Injunctions in Patent Law: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Flexibility and Tailoring" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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16:30-18:00 Session 5E: Competition and Market Regulation: Extraterritorial reach of platform regulation and design of effective institutions
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| 16:30 | Panel 'Regulating digital platforms: convergence or divergence' (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 5F: Energy and Climate Crisis: Justice and consumer protection
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| 16:30 | Regulating digital technology and ‘green growth’: ‘Sustainable’ extractivism, e-waste, planned obsolescence and the right to repair (abstract) |
| 17:00 | The emerging collaborative economy in the energy sector. Consumer and prosumer protection in peer-to-peer electricity platforms. (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Emerging modes of engagement with crisis information in troublesome times (abstract) |
18:00-19:30 Session 6: IP Law: Strategizing IP: Seeking the Solution Within
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| 18:00 | Patents and Green Innovation: From linearity to systems analysis of 'wicked problems' (abstract) |
| 18:30 | Scope of technology transfer under restrictive IPR terms of foreign technology collaboration : A Case study of foreign affiliates in India (abstract) |
| 19:00 | ‘National Domain Dispute Resolution Policy’ as a way forward in settlement of domain name disputes in Sri Lanka (abstract) |
Thursday, May 20th
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09:00-10:30 Session 7: Competition and market regulation: Sustainability and competition
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| 09:00 | Coordinating sustainable business behaviour in EU competition law. Insights from planning theory (abstract) |
| 09:30 | What is the role of EU merger control in ensuring sustainability? Innovation output, innovation diversity and the Commission’s innovation theory of harm in agrochemical mergers (abstract) |
| 10:00 | The Twin Transition to a Digital and Green Economy: Doctrinal Challenges for EU Competition Law (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 8A: Competition and Market Regulation: Data sharing, competition and data protection
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| 11:00 | Data protection and competition law: friends or foes regarding data sharing? (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Regulating Agricultural Data and Concept of ‘Data Ownership’: Approaching the Debate from the Competition Policy Perspective (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The German Facebook Case: The Law and Economics of the Relationship between Competition and Data Protection Law (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 8B: Human Rights and AI: Challenges from data processing for security and law enforcement purposes
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| 11:00 | Re-purposing data for security: what is the role of purpose under Article 8 CFREU? (abstract) |
| 11:30 | The normative challenges of AI surveillance in the analysis of encrypted IoT-generated data for law enforcement purposes (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Financial information sharing and the problem of borderlines between the GDPR and LED (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 8C: Data Governance: Data Governance in Smart Cities
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| 11:00 | Soft Law in Smart City Governance: Municipal Tools for Regulating Technology (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Post-soapbox data governance: from recognition to intersubjectivity (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The Politics of Setting International Standards for “Smart City” (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 8D: Open Track: Panel 'Digital technologies during Covid-19: A multi-disciplinary problematization of privacy’s value hegemony'
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| 11:00 | Digital technologies during Covid-19: A multi-disciplinary problematization of privacy’s value hegemony (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 9A: Energy and Climate Crisis: Workshop on Business and the Energy transition
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| 13:30 | Workshop- Business of the Energy Transition (part 1) (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 9B: Competition and Market Regulation: Platform Liability
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| 13:30 | Pornography tubesites: exploring the liability of dominant platforms for third-party content under EU competition law (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Restricting the access to legal content online: is it time for additional European regulation? (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Platform Regulation as Rule of Law Development Assistance (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 9C: Open Track: Public spaces, private concerns?
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| 13:30 | AI governance in practice: safeguarding public interests and democratic values in urban crowd management. (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Data protection law beyond identifiability? Atmospheric profiles, nudging and the Stratumseind Living Lab (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Privacy and pandemics: Augmented crises in times of reality (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 9D: Human Rights and AI: Panel 'Discrimination and algorithmic decision-making in insurance'
| 13:30 | Insurance, algorithmic decision-making, and discrimination (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 9E: IP Law: AI: Artist and/or Enforcer?
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| 13:30 | Analysing the Creative Potential of Artificial Intelligence through its “Moral Control” of the Market (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Automated copyright enforcement: Democracy in crisis (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 9F: Data Governance: Data Rights and Platform Resistance
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| 13:30 | What's Work Got To Do With It? Data Rights and Platform Resistance (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 10A: Competition and Market Regulation: Competition in the health sector
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| 15:30 | Health Data Sharing for Cooperative Research Beyond the Pandemic: What Art. 101 TFUE Can Learn From the Emerging Data Regulation (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Mergers that harm Our Health (abstract) |
| 16:30 | The Public Health Emergency Consideration in UK Merger Control: A new wall around British Business? (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 10B: Human Rights and AI: Facial recognition, surveillance, within and beyond borders
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| 15:30 | Development or Dystopia: Does the GDPR regulate the interconnected Law and Technology challenges raised by Facial Recognition Technology? (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Data subject rights as human rights safeguards against surveillance measures from outside the European Union (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Consent Mechanisms for the Use of Facial Recognition Systems among Vulnerable Groups: A rights based approach to biometric intervention during times of crisis (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 10C: IP Law: COVID-19 and Intellectual Property
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| 15:30 | Access to and ownership of data to tackle Covid-19: some lessons IP laws should learn for good (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Analyzing Patent-Literature for Mapping and Evaluating Covid-19 Innovation (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Open Covid Pledge |
15:30-17:00 Session 10D: Energy and Climate Crisis: Workshop on Business and the Energy transition (part 2)
Workshop: Climate Justice and the Business of Energy Transition
20 May from 13:30-15:00 and 15:30-17:00 (online)
In conjunction with:Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research Constitutionalizing the Anthropocene ProjectTilburg Institute for Law, Technology & Society
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15:30-17:00 Session 10E: Open Track: Technological responses to crises
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| 15:30 | A Proportionality-Based Framework for Government Regulation of Digital Tracing Apps in Times of Emergency (abstract) |
| 16:00 | The Intention; Requirements for software as a medical device in EU law (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Big Tech Platforms as ‘societal problem solvers’: How to organise democratic oversight and control (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 10F: Data Governance: Sector Transitions/Transgressions Panel
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| 15:30 | Sector Transitions and Transgressions during the Pandemic (abstract) |
17:00-18:30 Session 11A: Data Governance: Vulnerabilities in Data Governance
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| 17:00 | Regulating Facial Recognition Technology: What’s in a face and what to regulate? (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The AI-Assisted Surveillance Industry: “Hello, How May I Spy for You Today?” (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Privacy as a privilege? Privacy expectations of vulnerable data subjects in smart cities (abstract) |
17:00-18:30 Session 11B: Competition and Market Regulation: Regulating data flows
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| 17:00 | Anticompetitive-by-Design: Preventing Dark Patterns in Data Sharing (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Biosupremacy: Data, Competition, and Monopolistic Power Over Human Behavior (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Structural Blind Spots: Harms to Digital Consumers in EU Antitrust, Consumer and Data Protection Law (abstract) |
Friday, May 21st
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09:00-10:30 Session 12: Competition and Market Regulation: Recent competition law challenges
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| 09:00 | Fighting high drug prices: excessive pricing and price gouging in EU and US pharmaceutical markets (abstract) |
| 09:30 | SEPs licensing across the supply chain: an antitrust perspective (abstract) |
| 10:00 | ‘Competition Policy and Value Chain Resilience – A Primer’ (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 13A: Competition and Market Regulation: Market Power and Market Definition
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| 11:00 | Market Definition for Digital Ecosystems (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Greater than the sum of its parts: Reevaluating the market power of “data ecosystems” (abstract) |
| 12:00 | MARKET POWER PARASITES: ABUSING THE POWER OF DIGITAL INTERMEDIARIES TO HARM COMPETITION (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 13B: Data Governance: Governing Digital Identity
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| 11:00 | Blockchain technology for identity management in the migration context: is a right to personal identity for migrants and refugees possible? (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Bodies that Betray: EU’s Corporeal Borders (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Data Protection and Rule of Law: A Challenging Perspective. (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 13C: Open Track: Panel 'Escaping “the law of everything”. Should we separate ADM regulation from data protection?'
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| 11:00 | Panel proposal: Escaping “the law of everything”. Should we separate ADM regulation from data protection? (abstract) PRESENTER: Nadya Purtova |
13:30-15:00 Session 14A: Competition and Market Regulation: Workshop 'Remedies for Digital Markets' (part 1)
Michal Gal, Nicolas Petit, Seth Benzel, Francesco Ducci, Alexandre Ruiz Feases, Inge Graef, John Kwoka, Filippo Lancieri, Mark Lemley, Georgios Petropoulos and Thibault Schrepel
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| 13:30 | Workshop 'Remedies for Digital Markets' (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 14C: Data Governance: Governing Data in Fintech and Credit
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| 13:30 | Co-Governing Emerging Socio-Technical Systems: Investigating the Implications of Public-Private Partnerships in Smart Cities and Central Bank Digital Currencies (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Future money - tracing the imaginaries behind EU policymaking in digital finance. (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Can online credit solutions reinforce marginalization? (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 14D: Open Track: Data protection and digitalization in crisis
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| 13:30 | Sociotechnical Change and Its Place within Law’s Internal Model of Reality: Exploring a New Analytical Lens for Law and Technology Theory (abstract) |
| 14:00 | FROM KNOWING BY NAME TO PERSONALISATION: MEANING OF IDENTIFICATION UNDER THE GDPR (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Gaps in GDPR private enforcement: How are conflicts of laws triggered and what do they to data subjects’ rights (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 14E: Energy and Climate Crisis: National perspectives on (renewable) energy
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| 13:30 | Who pays the bill for the energy transition? Regulatory and justice remarks on the forthcoming Spanish National Fund for the Sustainability of the Electricity System (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Enabling Digital Renewable Energy: A Case Study of Law and Technology in Scotland (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Norway’s Quest for Renewables in the Context of Greenpeace v. Norway Case (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 15A: Energy and Climate Crisis: Economic and trade approaches to sustainability
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| 15:30 | Green House Gases Emissions under WTO Jurisprudence (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Carbon taxes, law and technology : a global conversation ? (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 15B: Competition and Market Regulation: Workshop 'Remedies for Digital Markets' (part 2)
Michal Gal, Nicolas Petit, Seth Benzel, Francesco Ducci, Alexandre Ruiz Feases, Inge Graef, John Kwoka, Filippo Lancieri, Mark Lemley, Georgios Petropoulos and Thibault Schrepel
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15:30-17:00 Session 15C: Open Track: AI regulation and explainability
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| 15:30 | Explanation is a concept in an AI-induced crisis, they say. But badly explained pandemic politics illustrate how its core values have never been safe. Can we use the momentum? (abstract) |
| 16:00 | AI Regulation. Challenges and Opportunities of a Voluntary Label? (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Unlawful AI, “until proven otherwise”: A new model for AI justification (abstract) |