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Speaker: The Rt. Hon. Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill Duration: 60 minutes Since coming into force in 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998 has strengthened human rights in the UK by incorporating the rights set out in the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic British law. Yet critics claim that this has enabled...

Speaker: Jamie Grischkan (NYU Fellow, Assistant Professor at Arizona State Law starting in fall 2022) Title: 'Banking and the Antimonopoly Tradition: The Long Road to the Bank Holding Company Act' Abstract: In the wake of a new challenge to the reigning antitrust paradigm of efficiency and consumer welfare, the...

Speaker: Professor Colin Scott, University College, Dublin Biography: Colin Scott is Professor of EU Regulation & Governance at University College Dublin, where he currently serves as Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Principal of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law and Dean of Social Sciences. Abstract: The European Union has long prioritised policy making to address the development and regulation of the large, complex and dynamic digital sector. Focusing on the regulatory aspect, numerous policy challenges have emerged, ranging between issues of privacy and competition through to behavioural issues for social media and the challenges from the development and wider use of AI. Digital developments present substantial economic and social opportunities but also great risks, many with high policy salience. The risks are such that they threaten the reputation and legitimacy of market actors, in addition to creating policy challenges for governments, alongside social challenges. In sectors where market reputation is threatened by business behaviours and loss of trust, we frequently find market driven governance emerging. In sectors where community interests are threatened by business behaviours we frequently find community-driven regulation. Given the recent history of digital policy, seeking to address old problems, new problems and old problems in new guises, it is surprising that narratives about regulation from government, businesses and community continue to centre state regulation to such a large extent, with relatively little emergence of market-driven or community driven regulatory governance. To a striking extent the emphasis of regulating for digital policy in the EU is largely focused in legislative measures deploying governmental tools rooted in hierarchy. This paper takes a toolkit approach to understanding the range of options not only for how to regulate, but also who regulates within governmental, market and community-based mechanisms, with emergent examples.

Title: 'The EU Investment Screening Regulation - Some Fundamental EU Law Observations' Speaker: Professor Christoph Hermann, Passau University Biography: Christoph Herrmann is Professor at the University of Passau. He holds a Chair for Constitutional and Administrative, European, European and International Economic Law...

Title: 'The Relationship between Switzerland and the European Union: 120 Agreements but no Perspective?' Speaker: Professor Astrid Epiney, University of Fribourg Biography: Professor Astrid Epiney is Chair of European Law, International Law and Public Law; and Managing Director of the Institute of European Law at the...

Title: 'EU Integration under attack: how can new interdisciplinary perspectives on EU law enhance the debate?' Speaker: Dr Brigitte Leucht, Portsmouth University Biography: Brigitte Leucht is a senior lecturer in European Studies and the Chair of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Ethics Committee at the...

Title: 'Liability for AI Training Data' Speaker: Professor Herbert Zech, Humboldt University, Berlin Biography: Professor Dr. Herbert Zech is Chair of Civil Law, Technology Law and IT Law at Humboldt University, Berlin and Director at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Abstract: In the discussion about the...

Title: 'The Role of Trade Secrets Protection in AI Transparency' Speaker: Professor Tanya Aplin, Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London Biography: Tanya Aplin is Professor of Intellectual Property at the Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London. Abstract: This talk will examine the claim that trade...

Title: ''"Just" Sharing: The Virtues of Digital Sequence Information Benefit-Sharing for the Common Good' Speaker: Professor Margo Bagley, Emory University School of Law Biography: Margo A. Bagley is an Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. She returned to Emory in 2016 after ten years at...

Title: 'Improving Access to Copyright Data' Speaker: Professor Stef van Gompel, Vrije University, Amsterdam Biography: Professor Dr Stef van Gompel is Full Professor of Intellectual Property at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of...