Showing posts with label digital fairness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital fairness. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 May 2025

CfP: Collective Redress and Digital Fairness, deadline 1 June 2025

Dear readers, 

a quick note to highlight a great conference opportunity at the University of Amsterdam. 

The organisers of the conference "Collective Redress and Digital Fairness", which will be held at the University of Amsterdam on 10 and 11 December 2025,  have issued a call for papers open to scholars and practitioners who are interested in engaging with the conference's broad theme, namely "the intersection of collective redress and digital fairness, understood as the equitable treatment of individuals and society in the digital space" and who will bring an own insight with emphasis on (but not limited to) a number of central questions:

  • CfP flyer
    What are the theoretical and normative foundations of collective redress?
  • How effective is collective redress in the digital legal sphere at international, European, and national levels?
  • How do digital rights intersect with other branches of law (e.g., consumer and competition law), and what does this mean for collective actions?
  • What impact does litigation have on the compliance and governance of digital corporations?
  • How do private and public enforcement interact, and what role do collective actions play within this regulatory framework?
  • What is the role of private law and private law remedies in shaping digital fairness, and how does it constrain or contribute to collective redress mechanisms?

Contributions may focus on procedural and substantive law aspects, as well as theoretical, doctrinal, and empirical studies from national, European, and transnational perspectives


Thanks to sponsoring by the Dutch foundation for Collective Actions research, selected speakers will be provided one night of accommodation in Amsterdam and a reasonable travel budget. How to apply? You find the submission requirements on ACT's website and in the flyer! Deadline for application is 1 June 20225.

Monday, 28 November 2022

EU Commission consultation on digital fairness

The Commission has just announced a public consultation on digital fairness. The intitative comes within the New Consumer Agenda and it aims to analyse whether additional action is needed to ensure an equal level of fairness online and offline.

This fitness check (evaluation) will look at the following pieces of EU consumer protection legislation to determine whether they ensure a high level of protection in the digital environment:

  • the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005/29/EC
  • the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU
  • the Unfair Contract Terms Directive 93/13/EEC

All stakeholders are invited to respond until 20 February 2023.