EU Law in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society together with the Yearbook of European Law (YEL) and the Faculty of Law, Sciences Po in Paris organise the YEL Annual EU Law and Policy Conference – 2020 on the topic of: ‘EU Law in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ on the 10th and 11th January at Sciences Po in Paris. Some selected papers  will appear at the Yearbook of European Law.

This event is by invitation only.

Organising committee:

• Jean d’Aspremont, Sciences Po Paris conference co-organiser
• Loic Azoulai, Sciences Po Paris conference co-organiser
• Ioannis Lianos, Faculty of Laws, UCL & CLES@UCL co-editor YEL & conference co-organiser
• Albertina Albors Llorens, University of Cambridge co-editor YEL
• Hans Micklitz, EUI co-editor YEL
• Horatia Muir Watt, Sciences Po Paris conference co-organiser Robert Schütze, Durham Law School co-editor YEL
• Takis Tridimas, Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London co-editor YEL
• Dina Waked, Sciences Po Paris conference co-organiser

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Friday 10 January
13:00	Registration and coffee
13:10	Welcome and Introduction Horatia Muir Watt & Ioannis Lianos
13:30	Nicolo Zingales ‘Beyond Technical Standardization: A New EU Governance Model for the IOT’
13:50	Kai Purnhagen ‘You want it extra CRISPRY? Regulating New Plant Breeding Technologies in the EU’
14:10	Claudia Seitz ‘Regulation of New Technologies in the Life Sciences in the Light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – New Developments in Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Gene Technologies and Genetic Data Platforms as new Challenges for EU Data Protection and Competition Law’
14:30	Discussion and Comments Commentators: Deni Mantzari, Horatia Muir Watt, Frederic Jenny
15:10	Albert Sanchez-Graells ‘EU Public Procurement Policy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Pushing and Pulling as One?’
15:30	Dan Wielsch ‘Dimensions of equality in private law: translations between law and society’ (Guest paper)
15:50	Discussion and Comments Stefan Thomas, Jean d’Aspremont
16:20	Break
16:40	Giovanni De Gregorio ‘Data Protection: Opportunity or Obstacle to the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in the EU Industrial State?’
17:00	Oles Andriychuk ‘7½ Myths About Net NeutralityWhy the EU Net Neutrality Rules Are Harming European Digital Agenda’
17:20	Discussion and Comments Florence G’sell, Ioannis Lianos
17:50	Ekaterina Perevoshchikova ‘Access to Customer Data under the Second Payment Services Directive - Remedial Blueprint for the Digital Era?’
18:10	Matteo Ortino ‘The overhaul of the banking sector (and beyond) through the new Payment Services Directive’
18:30	Discussion and Comments Takis Tridimas, Ioannis Lianos
19:30	Conference speakers dinner
Saturday 11 January 2020
09:40	Maja Brkan ‘EU Democracy, Free Elections and Artificial Intelligence’
10:00	Hedvig Schmidt ‘Merger Regulation in the Digital Economy and the Forgotten Goal of Innovation’
10:20	Klaas Hendrik Heller ‘Normative Orders Between Digital Platform and Society. Towards a European Law Framework for Private Governance Regimes in Socio-Economic Change’
10:40	Discussion and Comment Commentators: Oles Andriychuk, Takis Tridimas, Deni Mantzari, Adrian Kuenzler
11:10	Break
11:30	Stefan Thomas ‘Harmful Signals Cartel Prohibition and Oligopoly Theory in the Age of Machine Learning’
11:50	Igor Nikolic ‘FRAND Licensing Levels under EU Law’
12:10	Adrian Kuenzler ‘EU Competition and Intellectual Property Law on the Verge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’
12:30	Discussion and Comment Ioannis Lianos, Stefan Thomas, Deni Mantzari

Download the event programme for 'EU Law in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (updated 08.01.20).pdf

Download the event programme for 'EU Law in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (updated 08.01.20).pdf