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SUMMARY:Volker Stocker: Policy Challenges of AI-driven Ecosystems
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n* Volker Stocker is the Head of the Research Group “Work and Cooperation in the Sharing Economy” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (German Internet Institute). \nFormat: Dr. Stocker will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel. \nDescription: Dr. Stocker will explore the evolution and current state of AI-driven ecosystems and their profound impact on our digital landscape. He will examine key developments shaping these ecosystems and highlight the resulting policy challenges that demand attention. The talk will conclude with insights into potential policy implications.
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/volker-stocker/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Law & Technology & Economics,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250130T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250130T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20241112T164042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T163953Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Sofia Ranchordás: The New Regulatory State
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sofia Ranchordás is a Full Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law School. \nDescription: In this talk\, Sofia Ranchordas will present her new book with Karen Yeung ‘Introduction to Law and Regulation’ (CUP 2024) by discussing how regulation has evolved in terms of goals and instruments. Regulatory studies have long justified the adoption of new regulations based on economic arguments\, metrics\, and quantifiable methods. But regulation is not only about numbers. It is about people and their everyday quantifiable and non-quantifiable problems. In this talk\, she will discuss how regulators should thus consider race\, gender\, and different socioeconomic inequities in regulation and how this can be translated into modern instruments\, methods\, and theories of regulation. \nFormat: Prof. Ranchordás will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel. \nRecording (Only the presentation Q&A not included):
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/sofia-ranchordas/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Law & Technology & Economics,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250217T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20241106T144958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T120817Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Bill Kovacic: Cautionary Tales about (Digital) Industrial Policy
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n* Bill Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at the George Washington University where he directs the Competition Law Center. He is the former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. \nFormat: Prof. Kovacic will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel.
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/bill-kovacic/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250221T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250221T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20240823T135456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T154819Z
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SUMMARY:[CANCELED] Nicolas Petit: The Deep Structures of Law and Tech
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n* Nicolas Petit is Professor of Competition Law and Head of the Department of Law of the European University Institute (EUI). \nFormat: Professor Petit will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/nicolas-petit/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250328T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250328T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20241217T125641Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Pinar Akman: Antitrust Remedies for Big Tech
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nSpeaker: Pinar Akman is a Professor of Law specializing in competition law at the School of Law\, University of Leeds. \nFormat: Prof. Akman will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/pinar-akman/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250516T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250516T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20241209T092934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250519T081249Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Godefroy de Boiscuillé: The EU Digital Single Market Paradox
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Godefroy de Boiscuillé is Maître de Conférences at Côte d’Azur University and Co-Director of the Chair Competition & Digital Economics at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II. \nDescription: The goal of creating a unified digital economy is being undermined by the steady rise in trade barriers\, often framed under the innocuous term “ex ante regulation.” This presentation will focus on four key points: (1) In digital markets\, the approach of negative integration—removing barriers to trade—is increasingly contradicted by new measures that have effects equivalent to quantitative restrictions. (2) The strategy of positive integration—establishing EU-wide norms and standards—is weakened by the proliferation of conflicting standards. (3) Exceptions to the free movement of goods are multiplying\, justified by objectives that often conflict with other equally important goals. (4) While the Digital Single Market is based on the principles of the common market\, it introduces a less liberal philosophy compared to the traditional internal market framework. Together\, these dynamics reveal a paradox: the very goal of a unified digital market risks being undermined by the growing layers of regulation fragmenting the digital economy. \nFormat: Dr. de Boiscuillé will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/godefroy-de-boiscuille/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250603T120000
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CREATED:20250505T104501Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Herbert Hovenkamp: Tech Monopolies
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Herbert Hovenkamp is the James G. Dinan University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and in 2008 won the Justice Department’s John Sherman Award for his lifetime contributions to antitrust law. In 2012 he served on the ABA’s Committee to advise the President-elect on antitrust matters. His principal writing includes The Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought\, 1870-1970 (Oxford\, 2015); Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip E. Areeda and Donald F. Turner) (22 vols.\, Aspen 2008-2021); Principle of Antitrust (West 2d ed. 2021); Creation Without Restraint: Promoting Liberty and Rivalry in Innovation (Oxford\, 2012\, with Bohannan); The Making of Competition Policy (Oxford\, 2012\, with Crane); The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution (Harvard\, 2006); Federal Antitrust Policy: The Law of Competition and Its Practice (West\, 5th ed. 2015); IP and Antitrust (2 vols.\, Aspen\, 2017\, with Janis\, Lemley\, Leslie\, and Carrier); and Enterprise and American Law\, 1836-1937 (Harvard\, 1991). He has also co-authored casebooks in antitrust\, property law\, and a free open source casebook on innovation and competition policy. He has consulted on numerous antitrust cases for various government entities and private plaintiffs. He has two sons. \nDescription: In an era defined by the dominance of tech giants such as Amazon\, Apple\, Meta\, and Microsoft\, questions surrounding market power\, consumer harm\, and regulatory intervention are more urgent than ever. Join us for a timely and thought-provoking conversation with Herbert Hovenkamp\, one of the world’s leading antitrust scholars\, as he presents insights from his new book\, Tech Monopoly. In this talk\, Professor Hovenkamp will explore how antitrust law grapples with the complexities of digital markets\, ranging from software and search engines to online retail and hardware. He will examine how features like two-sided markets\, data aggregation\, and platform effects challenge traditional competition analysis and enforcement. From foundational legal principles to pressing policy debates (such as whether Big Tech firms should be broken up and what remedies might actually benefit users) this event offers a clear and accessible entry point into one of today’s most contentious economic issues. Whether you are a legal scholar\, economist\, policymaker\, a practitioner\, or simply interested in the intersection of law and technology\, this discussion will provide valuable tools for understanding and evaluating the current state of antitrust law in the digital age. \nFormat: Prof. Herbert Hovenkamp will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience.
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/herbert-hovenkamp/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250617T120000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20250606T062313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250610T190835Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Richard S. Markovits: The Impact of Mergers on R&D
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Richard Markovits is the John B. Connally Chair in Law at the University of Texas. He teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust\, law and economics\, constitutional law and jurisprudence. He is the author of articles in the Harvard Law Review\, Yale Law Journal\, Stanford Law Review and elsewhere as well as the book Matters of Principle: Legitimate Legal Argument and Constitutional Interpretation (NYU\, 1998)\, Truth or Economics: On the Definition\, Prediction\, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency (Yale\, 2008)\, and Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law (two vols.) (Springer\, 2014). He came to Texas from Stanford Law School in 1976. \nDescription: This talk will examine how mergers and acquisitions affect R&D investment through two mechanisms: reducing price competition (which increases investment) and altering investment competition intensity (an overlooked factor in antitrust analysis). It will then challenge the assumption that more R&D will always be economically efficient\, arguing that product R&D will tend to be over-incentivized while production-process R&D will be under-incentivized due to market imperfections. Prof. Markovits will further contend that current policies combining IP protections with immediate R&D expense deductions create uncertainty about optimal investment levels because we are not able to accurately measure how individual projects affect discovery probabilities or the true breadth of IP protection across different types of innovations. \nFormat: Prof. Richard S. Markovits will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/richard-markovits/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251010T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20250925T122904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T053920Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Geoffrey A. Manne: DMA Goes Global
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE)\, a nonprofit\, nonpartisan research center based in Portland\, Oregon. He is also a Visiting Professor at IE University in Madrid\, and a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law\, Business\, and Economics. Manne holds AB & JD degrees from the University of Chicago. He is an expert in the economic analysis of law\, focusing particularly on antitrust\, consumer protection\, telecom\, IP\, and technology regulation. From 2003 to 2006 he was an assistant professor at Lewis & Clark Law School where he taught law & economics\, international economic regulation\, corporations\, and other courses. In 2006 he decamped from Lewis & Clark to work in Microsoft’s legal department\, heading up a program on law & economics academic engagement. He subsequently founded ICLE in 2009. Prior to teaching\, Manne practiced antitrust law and appellate litigation at Latham & Watkins\, clerked for Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals\, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard A. Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the FTC. His writings and publications are available at SSRN and ICLE. \nDescription: This presentation will examine the rise of Digital Competition Regulations (DCRs) such as the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and their global counterparts. It will argue that DCRs will depart fundamentally from traditional competition law\, prioritizing rent redistribution\, the facilitation of rivals\, and the deliberate weakening of successful platforms over consumer welfare or innovation. Drawing on cases like Apple’s DMA compliance and the Android Auto decision\, the talk will highlight the conceptual ambiguities\, innovation risks\, and broader paradigm shift these regulations will represent for competition policy worldwide. \nFormat: Geoffrey A. Manne will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \n
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/manne-dma/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251210T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251210T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20251024T092252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T123241Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Frederic Jenny: The Five Crises of Competition Law
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Frédéric Jenny holds a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University (1975)\, a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA degree from ESSEC Business School (1966). He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris and President of the International Committee of Concurrences Review. He is Chairman of the OECD Global Competition Forum\, and former Co-Director of the European Center for Law and Economics of ESSEC. He was previously Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom (2007-2014)\, Judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation\, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to August 2012\, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and President of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition (1994-2003). He was visiting professor at Northwestern University Department of Economics in the United States (1978)\, Keio University Department of Economics in Japan (1984)\, University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991)\, Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012). He was Visiting Professor at University College London Law School (2005-2010)\, Global Professor of Antitrust in the New York University School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School (2014\, 2017 and 2022) and Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program\, University of Melbourne (Australia) (2016-2018) \nDescription: Industrial policy to promote growth through innovation has taken center stage in Europe’s economic policy. What do we know about the economics of innovation and  the respective roles of competition and industrial policy in the promotion of innovation? Under which condition could these two policies be complementary? \nFormat: Frederic Jenny will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/jenny/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260305T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260305T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20260206T142458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T142641Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Teodora Groza: Governing Foundation Models
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Teodora Groza is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. She has obtained a PhD in law from Sciences Po Law School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. Her work is underlined by the belief that technological developments need to be paired with governance innovations and investigates the fitness of various legal interventions for ensuring AI alignment. Methodologically\, she leverages the toolkit of law and economics\, in particular organizational and institutional economics. \nShe has published on data markets\, the governance of AI companies\, the role of regulation in promoting innovation\, and the impact of new business models on the EU and US antitrust frameworks. She regularly intervenes at academic\, civil society\, and industry conferences. \nDescription: Senior executives of frontier AI labs have recently described AI foundation models as either “infrastructures” or “platforms.” Although these terms are often used interchangeably in legal and governance debates\, economists distinguish between the effects and incentive structures they generate. This talk examines the role of foundation models in today’s economy and disentangles their platform-like and infrastructure-like characteristics. Building on this distinction\, it situates foundation models within the existing regulatory architectures of platforms (e.g. social media\, digital marketplaces) and infrastructures (e.g. public utilities). It then analyzes how different governance choices would shape access\, competition\, and the allocation of regulatory authority. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Teodora Groza will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/teodora-groza/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260413T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260413T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20260320T082424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T063437Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Jonathan Barnett: When Antitrust Gets It Wrong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jonathan Barnett is director of the law school’s Media\, Entertainment and Technology Law Program and the author of The Big Steal: Ideology\, Interest\, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2024) and Innovators\, Firms\, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2021).. Barnett specializes in antitrust\, intellectual property\, and corporate and business law\, with a focus on innovation policy and strategy in technology markets. Barnett has published in the Harvard Law Review\, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology\, Yale Law Journal\, Journal of Legal Studies\, Jurimetrics\, Review of Law & Economics\, and other scholarly journals. He also regularly comments in the press and at conferences on legal and policy issues concerning antitrust and intellectual property. He joined USC in 2006 and was a visiting professor at NYU School of Law in 2010. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Prior to academia\, Barnett practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb LLP in New York\, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania\, Barnett received a MPhil from Cambridge University and a JD from Yale Law School. \nDescription: Patent holdup. Killer acquisitions. Kill zones. Default bias. Four influential theories of harm\, and four cases where weak evidence drove major policy interventions. This talk offers a critical assessment of the new competition orthodoxy. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Jonathan Barnett will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience.
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/barnett-antitrust/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260430T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260430T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20260327T122446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T123206Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Pablo Ibáñez Colomo: Green Technologies & Competition Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Ordinary Member at the Competition Appeal Tribunal\, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and one of the Joint General Editors of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (Oxford University Press). He received a PhD from the European University Institute in June 2010 (Jacques Lassier Prize). Before joining the EUI as a Researcher in 2007\, he taught for three years at the Law Department of the College of Europe (Bruges)\, where he also completed an LLM in 2004. He has been a Visiting Professor at several institutions around the world\, including Aix-Marseille University\, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México\, Kobe University and Torcuato di Tella University. \nDescription: Green technologies pose a major threat to incumbents in many industries\, from energy to transport and food. It is therefore rational for the latter to display anticompetitive strategies aimed at delaying technological change. It would be logical for competition authorities around the world to focus on these strategies. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nChargement…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/pablo-ibanez-colomo/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260602T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260602T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20260327T123102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T123131Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Catalina Goanta: Miniconsumers
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catalina Goanta is Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads\, focused on understanding the impact of content monetization on social media and on reinterpreting private law fairness in the context of platform governance. Between 2016–2021 she was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University\, and during February 2018–February 2019\, she was a Niels Stensen fellow and visited the University of St. Gallen (The Institute of Work and Employment) and Harvard University (The Berkman Center for Internet and Society). \nDescription: “The kids aren’t alright.” In the EU and beyond\, policy attention has recently turned to children’s online activities. Many countries\, from Australia to Brazil\, are doubling down on platform regulation and social media bans\, adopting new data protection and children’s rights frameworks to oversee these activities and protect minors from harms ranging from grooming to problematic or addictive use. \nYet this narrative is missing an important component: children are also consumers\, and their online presence is based on transactions and contracts they may or may not have the legal capacity to enter into. This presentation explores the research gap surrounding children’s legal capacity: what minors are and are not permitted to engage with contractually in digital environments\, and whether current legal standards should evolve in light of emerging scientific evidence. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Catalina Goanta will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nChargement…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/catalina-goanta/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260618T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260618T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T040911
CREATED:20260408T130307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T111538Z
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SUMMARY:[event] Marco Almada: The Hidden Costs of Technology-Neutral Regulation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marco Almada is a researcher working on matters of law and technology. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cyber Policy at the University of Luxembourg\, focusing on AI regulation and cybersecurity. His research is directed towards theoretical and doctrinal issues in regulation\, with a special focus on the learning mechanisms used for navigating scenarios of deep socio-technical uncertainty. He has written extensively on the regulatory frameworks being designed for AI technologies and on the governance of AI in the public sector. \nDescription: Technology neutrality appears in instruments ranging from WTO trade rules to EU legislation on AI and platform governance\, yet scholars and policymakers consistently struggle to define what it requires in practice. Marco Almada’s paper proposes a unifying framework: technology-neutral regulation is a delegation of power\, specifically the power to determine how general rules apply to particular technologies. That reframing connects otherwise disparate accounts in the literature and explains why technology-neutral approaches often fall short or produce unintended side effects. Applied to EU digital regulation\, the framework shows how abstraction from technical detail concentrates power in the hands of certain public and private actors while weakening existing accountability mechanisms. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Marco Almada will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nChargement…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/marco-almada/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:[event] Jason Potts – Institutional Acceleration: Theory and Applications
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jason Potts is an evolutionary and institutional economist who specializes in economic dynamics and innovation in the digital economy\, with a focus on the consequences of AI and blockchain technology. He works on the theory and policy of contribution systems\, innovation commons\, cryptoeconomics\, creative industries and economic complexity. He is an editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. \nDescription: New digital technologies now enable innovation directly in economic institutions\, an evolutionary process that Potts calls ‘institutional acceleration’. This talk will review the theory of i/acc and discuss several case studies in the context of Saudi economic transformation (Vision 2030)\, new high-speed low-IP innovation systems emerging in Chinese cities\, and new financial technologies for ecological regeneration to transform voluntary contributions into capital. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Jason Potts will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nChargement…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/jason-potts/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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