M-EPLI Talks

• Present work in progress, including papers and PhD dissertations.
• Present academic projects to M-EPLI Fellows, including book or conference projects.
• Critically comment on recent developments in the law, either at national or European levels, including changes in legislation, doctrine, and case law that might trigger future work in progress.

M-EPLI Talks 2025

Past Talks

• Vageesh Saxena: CyberCrime-Linker: Analyzing Behavorial Patterns to Link and Identify Vendors in Online Criminal Spaces.
• Francesco Zappatore (University of Foggia): ‘Private Law, Public Goals: Comparative Reflections on Punitive Damages.

• Wen-Ting Yang: 

  Data-driven Nudges in Investment Apps ― An Opportunity to Develop a Healthy and Sustainable Financial Environment Amidst the Retail Investment Boom.

• Benedikt Schmitz (University of Groningen): At the Intersection of Conflicts Law and Consumer Law: 'MS May'-Exceptions in the Light of Article 6 Rome I Regulation.
• Antoine Louis: People and the Law with Language Models.
• Eline Couperus: The Role of the Fundamental Freedom to Conduct a Business in a “Social” Europe.
• Klaas Eller: Urban transnational law: Infrastructure and Social Order in the City. 
  This talk was co-organized with Glaw-Net.
• Valerio D’Alessandro (University of Rome Tor Vergata): Private Law in the Time of Personalization: Toward a New Imaginary of the Legal Subject?
• Paweł Hajduk (Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie): “Five years later, or a brief tale of hurdles of the private enforcement of the GDPR”
• Jie Ouyang (Groningen): ''Embedded consumer': Towards a constitutional reframing of the legal image of consumers''
• Rachael Walsh: 'Deliberative Property: Managing Complexity in Property Systems'
• Vanessa Mak: Who is the Consumer? The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in the EU in Light of the Twin Challenges of Digitalisation and Sustainability.
• Eva Vermeulen: ''Dimensions of Inequality and Property Law Design – a capability 
  perspective on Dutch housing''
• Giovanni Tuzet: This talk is organised in conjunction with the Foundations group.
• Lorna Fox O'Mahony: The Future of Housing: Resilient Property Theory, Systemic Methodology and Sustainable Solutions
• Melvin Tjon Akon: Valuing ‘Value for money’: the wins and fails of the product governance approach to regulating consumer credit prices
• Víðir Smári Petersen: Preventing Cross-Contamination Between Expropriations and Regulatory Excess
• Mindy Duffourc: Tort Liability for AI-driven Technologies in Surgery
• Deimante Rimkute: Justifying AI-related Rights and Obligations within the EU:  A Study of European Safety Regulations and Tort Law
• Aleydis Nissen: Global Value Chain Regulation in the Era of Geopolitics
  Organised by GLawNET
• Prof. dr. Toshiyuki Kono: GVC as a network and the position of Private International Law
• Dr. Timothy Dodsworth: The Underlying Values of German and English Contract Law
• Prof. dr. Bianca Gardella Tedeschi: Elders as Vulnerable Consumers
• Dr. Rebecca Ravalli: Consumer law and global value chains: Tracing a missing link in EU law
• Prof. dr. Bram Akkermans and Prof. dr. Lorna Fox O Mahony: Property & Democracy
• Prof. Rodrigo Momberg: The impact of integrating ethical standards into contracts. A look at sustainability policies and clauses from a contract law perspective.
• Dr Aygun Mammadzada: Reimagining Property and Presence in the Age of Digital Assets: Reflections from the UK and Beyond
• Constantijn van Aartsen: The Beyond Governance Project