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Transatlantic Seminar on Consumer Law, Technology and Inequality: Big Tech, Consumers and Inequality

Transatlantic Seminar on Consumer Law, Technology and Inequality: Big Tech, Consumers and Inequality

On 20 April 2022, 4:00 pm (CEST) Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will speak as a panelist at the Transatlantic Seminar on Consumer Law, Technology and Inequality.

On 20 April 2022, 4:00 pm (CEST) the Transatlantic Seminar on Consumer Law, Technology and Inequality will take place.

During the Seminar Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age), Fiona Scott Morton (Yale University), Giorgio Monti (Tilburg University) and Sarah Miller (American Economic Liberties Project) will be speaking on "Big Tech, Consumers and Inequality". Their discussion will be moderated by Przemysław Pałka (Jagiellonian University in Kracow).

The Transatlantic Seminar on Consumer Law, Technology, and Inequality is a joint initiative of five partners: the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Private Law, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the Free University in Berlin, and the European University Institute in Florence. The seminar seeks to create a space for sharing knowledge, ideas, and experience across geographic and professional boundaries, with a special emphasis on bringing US and European scholars, policy-makers, and social activists together. Each session will combine speakers who rarely appear together but share interests at the intersections of law, economics, and society.

Two fundamental themes run through all the sessions. First, consumer law has a larger role to play in combatting rising economic and social inequalities and promoting social justice than the conventional wisdom recognizes. And second, a rising "legal tech for good" movement promises to empower consumers and consumer organizations by increasing their capacity for providing meaningful oversight of market actors and for enforcing consumer rights. We believe that a rigorous understanding of the practical problems that contemporary consumers face, and also of the legal environment in which they operate, is essential in order for consumer law and tech fully to realize their potential to combat inequality.

The virtual workshop will be held as a video conference via Zoom. Everyone willing to participate shoul register no later than Tuesday, 19 April 2022 using this link. Login details will be sent on Tuesday afternoon.