ALTI Amsterdam

[event] Sofia Ranchordás: The New Regulatory State
2025-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Speaker: Sofia Ranchordás is a Full Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law School.
Description: 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.
Format: Prof. Ranchordás will give a 30-minute talk, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel.
Recording (Only the presentation Q&A not included):

[event] Substance Over Slogans: Strengthening The Foundations of Antitrust
2025-01-17 08:00 - 17:00 | Paris, France
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ABOUT:
Our aim for this conference is to look past the headlines and politicized arguments that have defined the last several years of competition-policy discourse to examine the current academic foundations of antitrust and what they say about contemporary competition policy.
The competition-policy landscape is shifting almost as rapidly as the industries it seeks to regulate. Over the past few years, a new trend has seemingly taken hold of the field: Scholars and enforcers increasingly reject the economically grounded learnings of decades of legal analysis, enforcement experience, and applied industrial organization research in favor of untested policy initiatives reflecting mostly political preferences, not rigorous scholarship.
Against this backdrop, our Paris conference will discuss the state of the art of economic and legal research, and explore whether and where it may provide a rigorously supported basis for departing from antitrust’s traditional foundations.
The conference will bring together an unparalleled assembly of top academics, influential policymakers, and business experts to engage in a dynamic exploration of the assumptions that underpin contemporary competition enforcement.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Pinar Akman (University of Leeds)
Brian Albrecht (ICLE)
Gustavo Augusto (Administrative Council for Economics Defense)
Dirk Auer (ICLE)
Reiko Aoki (Japan Fair Trade Commission)
Dennis W. Carlton (University of Chicago)
Andy Chen (Taiwan Fair Trade Commission)
Kenneth Elzinga (University of Virginia)
Cani Fernández Vicién (Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission)
Richard Gilbert (Berkeley)
Oliver Hart (Harvard)
Melissa Holyoak (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania)
Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
Frédéric Jenny (ESSEC Business School)
Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)
Geoffrey Manne (ICLE)
Francisco Marcos (IE Law School Madrid)
Philip Marsden (Bank of England)
Nicolas Petit (European University Institute)
Lazar Radic (IE Law School Madrid)
Thibault Schrepel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics)
Koren W. Wong-Ervin (Jones Day)

HOSTED BY:

European University Institute Department of Law (Nicolas Petit)
IE Law School Madrid (Francisco Marcos and Lazar Radic)
International Center for Law & Economics (Geoffrey Manne and Dirk Auer)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute (Thibault Schrepel)

Volker Stocker: Policy Challenges of AI-driven Ecosystems
2024-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 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).
Format: Dr. Stocker will give a 30-minute talk, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel.
Description: 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.

Paul Seabright: A Response to the Draghi Report on EU competitiveness
2024-10-30 12:00 - 13:00 | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Speaker: Paul Seabright is a Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics.
Format: Professor Seabright will give a 30-minute talk, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel.
Description: Where, geographically, do the benefits of innovative activity accrue? If a highly innovative startup in the EU is highly successful, what kinds of benefits are created and for whom, and how is this different if the same startup relocates to Silicon Valley? In the most innovative sectors, a large share of the benefits accrues to customers (as recent research by Hunt Allcott and others suggests), who may be located anywhere in the world. The Draghi Report is hopeless about this, and much of the current discussion around the importance of keeping manufacturing strong in the EU fails to distinguish between manufacturing that generates real location-specific externalities and manufacturing that merely keeps factories humming.

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Diane Coyle: Welfare Assessment in a Digital Economy
2024-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Professor Dame Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of progress and productivity.
Description: Are we seeing the end of technocracy in antitrust? Competition analysis has been for some decades an increasingly technical activity, with an implicit assumption that there is an underlying ‘correct’ answer in terms of consumer welfare impacts. However, the normative implications of decisions are becoming increasingly clear in today’s context of extremely dynamic technology-driven markets and the revival of political interest in industrial policies. The way some markets evolve in the short term may shape the supply side of the economy for decades to come, highlighting the normative choices involved.
Format: Professor Coyle will give a 30-minute talk, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel.

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ALTI Summer School 4th Edition
2024-07-01 - 2024-07-05 | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Registrations for our ALTI Summer School are open! Join the 4th Edition of the only Multidisciplinary Summer School focused on the Synergy Artificial Intelligence – Space Law.
Dates: 1 – 5 July 2024.
Location: Hybrid (on campus at VU Amsterdam and Online, Live on Zoom).
Details and Registrations on the programme’s website: https://www.multidisciplinaryai.org/.
Do you have questions about the ALTI Summer School? Contact the Course Coordinator, Ioana Bratu (i.bratu@vu.nl).

Conference: Dynamics of Generative AI
2024-03-22 08:30 - 18:00 | Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
Conference: Dynamics of Generative AI
The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute is co-organizing a conference on the “Dynamics of Generative AI” together with the Weizenbaum Institute (Berlin, Germany). The event follows the publication of dedicated articles – edited by Thibault Schrepel (ALTI) and Volker Stocker (Weizenbaum Institute) – in the Network Law Review. Registration to receive a recording of the event is open here.

Chief Economist Roundtable
2023-12-05 08:30 - 14:00 | EUI, Italy
Chief Economist Roundtable (Dec. 5)
ALTi is a proud co-sponsor of this new DCI event featuring four former European Commission’s Chief Economists. The event will be live-streamed.

Online event: Competition & Innovation
2023-11-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Online event: Competition & Innovation (Nov. 29)
The Dynamic Competition Initiative, supported by ALTI, is pleased to invite you to a free online event entitled “Innovation & Competition”. DCI scholars will present their latest research on the interplay between competition and innovation, including a systematic literature review and new evidence. Frederic Jenny, Chair of the OECD Competition Committee, will present the OECD’s work in this area ahead of the OECD Roundtable on Innovation and Competition scheduled for December 4.
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BILETA 2023
2023-04-13 09:00 - 2023-04-14 17:00 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1077, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands

Dynamic Competition Applied
2023-04-13 08:00 - 2023-04-14 17:00

Antitrust Under The Palms
2023-02-07 - 2023-02-08
What: Antitrust Under the Palms: A Competition Policy Event
Where: Miami, Florida – venue TBD
When: February 7 -8, 2023
Why: The need for collaboration is great since it is impossible to overstate the sea change that has occurred in antitrust enforcement over the past year. Policymakers and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have embarked upon countless initiatives to preemptively regulate and/or sanction large swaths of the economy in the name of competition.
Unfortunately, these initiatives appear to be united by a paucity of theoretical underpinnings and several misapprehensions about business, big or otherwise. To put it mildly, there is a strong sense that the error-cost framework has, at least in part, given way to expediency and politically-motivated intervention. The goal of this event is to discuss more broadly what it means to be a classical competition scholar in this rapidly deteriorating policy environment, and, where possible, to identify points of convergence we can develop together.
Who: ICLE + ALTI

The Criminal Metaverse
2022-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 | VU Amsterdam, Room NU-4B47
What: A fireside chat between Eldar Haber (University of Haifa) and Anne de Hingh (VU Amsterdam) about criminal activities in the metaverse.
Where: VU Amsterdam, Room NU-4B47.
When: December 9, 2022, from 12:00 to 13:00.
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(no access will be granted without registration)
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Blockchain, Metaverses, and Crypto-Anarchism
2022-10-13 12:00 - 13:00
What: A fireside chat between Chris Berg (RMIT) and Thibault Schrepel (VU Amsterdam) about blockchain, metaverses, and crypto-anarchism.
Where: VU Amsterdam. You will be informed of the room number a few days before the event.
When: October 13, 2022, from 12:00 to 13:00.
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(no access will be granted without registration)
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Dynamic Competition Initiative
2022-07-21 | Zoom
Join us for the Launch of the Dynamic Competition Initiative (DCI)
09:30-09:40 __________ Welcome & Introduction
Bowman Heiden (UC-Berkeley and UGOT)
Thibault Schrepel (VU Amsterdam and Stanford)
09:40-10:20 __________Session 1: DYNAMISM
Moderator:
Thibault Schrepel (VU Amsterdam and Stanford)
Panelists:
David Teece (UC-Berkeley and BRG)
Connie Helfat (Dartmouth)
10:20-10:50 __________ Session 2: COMPETITION
Moderator:
Nicolas Petit (EUI and College of Europe)
Panelists:
Bill Kovacic (George Washington University)
Ioanna Constantiou (Copenhagen Business School)
10:50-11:00 __________ Session 3: OUR INITIATIVE
Nicolas Petit (EUI and College of Europe)

ALTI AI & Space Law Summer Course
2022-07-04 09:00 - 2022-07-08 17:00 | Law Faculty, ALTI VU
This year’s edition of the ALTI AI & Space Law Summer Course takes place from 4 to 7 July on campus, at the Law Faculty of VU and also online.
Prepare to Aim Higher part of the ALTI AI ∞ SpaceLaw Society alongside our internationally renowned speakers during multidisciplinary lectures and workshops. More details are available on the programme website.

Regulating Disinformation: Legal struggles and risks of privatization
2022-06-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1077, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands
Mini-conference with panel discussion, both live at VU Campus and online. More info ….

IEEE Workshop towards Decentralized Governance Design
2022-06-15 13:00 - 17:00 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1077, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands
With blockchain, we have entered the age of computational trust, in which network orchestration is possible without a trusted third party. Without a trusted third party, a self-organizing ecosystem requires a decentralized design approach. Digital currencies, at first glance, may seem to be a decentralized ecosystem in which peers interact directly with each other. However, the decision making within these so-called decentralized ecosystems is centrally orchestrated and, also, it is not transparent. Fundamental design decisions need to be approached from different angles. Concepts like: a democracy functioning under the rule of law for states, corporate governance for businesses, member participation in associations, can now perhaps also be caught in formal, executable models as smart contracts. This would require a Decentralized Governance Design approach, determining the structure of how decisions are taken, executed and computationally supported within the ecosystem.

Webinar: Digital Platforms in the EU Internet Market
2022-05-10 16:30 - 18:30

The future of digital monitoring in the European Union
2022-04-26 14:00 | Zoom
The future of digital monitoring in the European Union
Legal compliance is increasingly becoming digital, and that is a fact. In shaping its digital future, in the past years, the European Union has been proposing one legal reform after another, such as the Digital Services Act (DSA) package or the AI Act. A common thread in these developments is the policy reflection on not only how to update or make new rules for digital markets, but also how to enforce them effectively. This has already been reflected in earlier instruments such as the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Regulation, or the Digital Market Surveillance Regulation. As indicated in the preamble of the latter, ‘[i]n the age of constant development of digital technologies, new solutions that could contribute to the effective market surveillance within the Union should be explored’. But what exactly is market surveillance in the digital age?
Dr. Catalian Goanta and Dr. Jerry Spanakis will address the topic in a hybrid ALTI. More specifically, they will discuss:
1. What are the biggest trends in digital monitoring in the EU at the moment;
2. What are the benefits and challenges of digital monitoring?
3. How can mechanisms of state and capitalist surveillance be avoided where not reasonable?
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ALTI conference: “Blockchain + The Law“
2022-02-03 14:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
We are delighted to announce the first ALTI conference entitled “Blockchain + The Law”, to be held on February 3 (online). We have quite a fantastic lineup if you ask us, see for yourself (below), and be sure to join us 🚀.
Registration OVER HERE.

IWDS 2021 – the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society
2021-12-07 14:00 - 17:00 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1077, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands
IWDS 2021 – the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society
Do you have a research idea that is both interdisciplinary and linked to the digital society? Would you like to present your research, meet other researchers with similar or complementary interests, and potentially start new collaborations? Then this event may be for you!
The 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society will be held on December 7, 2021 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. We aim to bring together researchers interested in the intersection between digital technology and society.
Digital technology – from social robotics to smart mobile devices, from global social media networks to fluent natural language processing tools, from realistic virtual environments to knowledgeable virtual agents – is rapidly changing, and society is changing with it. At the same time, technological solutions are sought for new societal problems such as global social justice, climate change, human mobility and sustainability, or transnational (re)organization of politics and economy. To study how digital technologies and societal problems interact, we believe in supporting researchers who take on interdisciplinary approaches.
This workshop, organized by the Network Institute, aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds interested in the Digital Society and to give them the opportunity to present their work, get to know and learn from each other, and initiate common projects. Participating researchers are invited to submit a research paper (either a previously published work or a “work in progress“). They will have the opportunity to show a poster and give a very short lightning presentation. During the conference and the follow-up borrel, participants will have the opportunity to interact and connect with colleagues from inside and outside the VU.
Submission Guidelines for researchers
We invite all researchers interested in interdisciplinary topics related to the Digital Society to contribute to our program. There will be a (lightweight) evaluation of all submissions. These should consist of a representative paper of your research (previously published or “work in progress” – the workshop is non-archival)
All submissions must be made in PDF format through the EasyChair platform https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=1stiwds
We highlight that, in order to facilitate participation, we are not requiring researchers to create new contents for the workshop: submissions can be previously-published work or “work in progress” papers.
Program
The program is currently in the making, and will include short presentations, a poster session, contributed lightning talks and a borrel.
Venue
Atrium room – 1st floor of the Medical Faculty building, VU Amsterdam.
Important dates
Submission deadline: Nov 15, 2021
Registration deadline: Dec 1, 2021
Event date: Tuesday Dec 7, 2021 @ 14:00-17:00 followed by a borrel 17:00-18:00
Organization
The workshop is organized and sponsored by the Network Institute, the hub for interdisciplinary research on the Digital Society at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Organizing committee

Kim Baraka — VU, Department of Computer Science (Social AI group)
Martina Testori — VU, Department of Organization Sciences (Force of Gossip group)
Ioana Vrabiescu — VU, Department of Organization Sciences (Organizational Ethnography)
Kousar Aslam — VU, Department of Computer Science (Software and Sustainability group)
Tomislav Karačić — VU, KIN Center for Digital Innovation (AI@Work group)
Antske Fokkens — VU, Dept. of Language, Literature and Communication (Computational Linguistics and Text Mining Lab) / Eindhoven University of Technology (Algorithms, Geometry and Applications cluster)
Ivano Malavolta — VU, Department of Computer Science (Software and Sustainability group)

Multidisciplinary workshop on persuasive design and manipulation via digital products
2021-11-19 10:00 - 17:30 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1077, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands
ALTI, in collaboration with the NNHRR – Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, is happy to present the interactive workshop on the legal implications of manipulative and persuasive digital products!

Dark patterns for cookie consent, in-game purchases, the voice of virtual assistants, prompts from fitness apps: these are only some examples of user interfaces and products designed to be persuasive, to steer the behaviours of users.

The possible effects of persuasive design on users are now catching the attention of the EU Commission and of the Council of Europe, but the exact features of the phenomenon are not clear yet, especially from the legal perspective.

This workshop explores the implications of persuasive design with a multidisciplinary approach, putting together in one room lawyers, designers, social scientists, computer scientists, and ethicists.

On November 19, the works will be opened with a keynote by a special guest: Mr. Jan Kleijssen, Director of Information Society – Action against Crime, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of Europe.

The keynote will be followed by two panels, with a spectacular line-up of speakers from several disciplines, and plenty of time for inclusive and lively discussions involving all participants!

The workshop is interactive and multidisciplinary, and welcomes participants from law, but also other relevant academic domain.

Participation is free. Registration (mandatory) here .

For any questions, you can contact ALTI member Silvia De Conca.

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4th IBCI International Conference on Competition And Innovation
2021-11-09 - 2021-11-11 | Zoom
4th IBCI International Conference on Competition And Innovation
The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute | ALTI is proud to co-sponsor the Brazilian Institute for Competition and Innovation (IBCI) 4th annual conference on Competition And Innovation.

Dr. Thibault Schrepel, ALTI Core Member, will discuss his book, “Blockchain + Antitrust” on November 9, 2021: watch it.
Dr. Thibault Schrepel, ALTI Core Member, will moderate a panel on dynamic competition, on November 10, 2021: watch it.
Dr. Silvia de Conca and Dr. Thibault Schrepel, ALTI Core Members, will discuss the Digital Services Act on November 10, 2021, watch it.
Dr. Thibault Schrepel, ALTI Core Member, will moderate a discussion with Bill Kovacic, former FTC Chair, on November 11, 2021: watch it.

The entire program is available over here. Join us!
