Workshop — Towards a Competitive Digital EU: Regulatory Effectiveness in Practice
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The SmartLawHub, in partnership with the Brussels Privacy Hub and Hi! PARIS, is organising a workshop in connection with the forthcoming special issue Towards a Competitive Digital EU: Addressing and Overcoming the Barriers to Regulatory Effectiveness, recently announced in Computer Law & Security Review.
The event will take place at HEC Paris on 23–24 March and will bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-oriented researchers working on digital regulation, governance of emerging technologies, and the broader question of regulatory effectiveness in the EU digital ecosystem.
The workshop is intended as a focused exchange around ongoing research, draft contributions to the special issue, and adjacent work on data governance, AI regulation, enforcement capacity, and competitiveness challenges faced by European actors. The objective is less formal presentation than substantive discussion, cross-fertilisation of perspectives, and sharpening of analytical approaches ahead of publication.
A detailed agenda will be posted shortly. For further information or participation inquiries, please contact the organisers directly through SmartLawHub.
| Monday 23 March |
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12:30-13:30 | Light Lunch |
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13:30-13:45 | David Restrepo Amarilles/Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon | HEC Paris/Brussels Privacy Hub, VUB | Introduction
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13:45-14:30 | TBC |
| Keynote on comparative perspectives |
14:30-15:30 | Jukka Ruohonen
Nicholas Martin
Damien Charlotin
Rashad Abelson
Jean-Edouard Colliard (Discussant) TBC
| University of Southern Denmark
Fraunhofer ISI
HEC Paris
OECD
HEC Paris | Regulatory Complexity: Bug or Feature?
Has Complexity of EU Law Increased?
Innovation and GDPR: Much Ado About Quite a Lot
Methods for Analysing Legislative Inflation
Aiming for Regulatory and Policy Coherence: Challenges and Opportunities
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15:30-15:45 | Break |
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15:45-16:30 | Kai Zenner Itxaso Dominguez Nathalie Cohen David Restrepo Amarilles (Discussant)
| European Parliament EDRi OECD HEC Paris | Delivering Growth Through Regulatory Simplification: Are We Looking in the Right Direction?
Escaping the Simplification Trap: A Playbook for the EU's Digital Rulebook
False Choices: Competitiveness, Deregulation, and the Erosion of GDPR's Regulatory Integrity
Simplification: The Real Key to Success |
16:30-16:45 | Break |
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16:45-17:45 | Max Von Grafstein
Barbara Lazarotto
Maitrayee Pathak
Sophie Stalla- Bourdillon (Discussant) | Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society / Law & Innovation
Brussels Privacy Hub, VUB
Karlsruher Institut für TechnologieRinggold
Brussels Privacy Hub, VUB | Connecting the Dots Between EU Data Regulations: Are We Aligning Priorities?
Resolving the Value-for-Risk Dilemma by Data (Governance) Laws and Other Mechanisms Barbara
Giving EU Data Governance Law a Second Life? From Rebranding to Real-World Impact Maitrayee
Traceability for Privacy: A Foundational Pillar for an Effective and Competitive EU Digital Rulebook |
19:00-21:00 | Dinner |
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| Tuesday 24 March |
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8:30-8:45 | David Restrepo Amarilles/Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon | HEC Paris/Brussels Privacy Hub, VUB | Welcome |
8:45-9:45 | Michael Spratt
Tytti Rintamäki
Discussant, TBC | University College Dublin
Dublin City University
CNIL | Assessing Impact Assessment Methods and Templates : Is Convergence Achievable?
Clarity, Cost, and Compliance: Exploring Interpretative Fragmentation in EU Data Protection Impact Assessments - Evidence from COVID-19 Proximity Apps
Impact Assessment Requirements in the GDPR vs the AI Act: Overlaps, Divergence, and Implications |
9:45-10:00 | Break |
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10:00-11:00 | Sebastian Zimmeck
Inge Graef
Klaus Miller (Discussant)
| Wesleyan University
Tilburg University
HEC Paris | Consent, Fairness, and Power in EU Platform and Data Regulation: Do We Have the Means to Act?
Can the GPC standard eliminate consent banners in the EU?
A Fairness Benchmark in EU Platform Regulation: Moving Beyond Fragmented Protections for Consumers, Businesses, and Workers |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
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11:15-12:30 | Philip Meinel
Muliana SH
Peter Ormosi (online)
Pablo Baquero (Discussant)
| TU Dresden
Universitas Gadjah Mada Fakultas HukumRinggold
University of East Anglia
HEC Paris
| Determinants of AI Competitiveness: Are We Focused upon the Real Constraints?
What Are AI Systems? Rethinking the Core Definition in the EU AI Act
Market Concentration, Algorithmic Collusion, and Competition Law in AI and DeepTech: A Systematic Literature Review
Anti-competitive AI systems: effective and proportionate regulatory and remedy design |
12:30-13:00 | Irena Orssich TBC | EC | Closing Keynote: Enforcement of the AI Act: what's next? |
13:00-14:30 |
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| Lunch Buffet |
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