Workshop: Regulating the Digital Circular Economy

Law fostering the digital circular economy is one of the fastest-developing, most challenging legal disciplines, and the EU has become a key global actor in this field. Yet, law and sustainability transitions in general raise complex pressing questions. What can law and regulation do to help tackling the climate crisis and incentivizing relevant technologies? What does the legal framework to foster the transition to a circular climate-neutral Europe should look like? How can you ensure the digital and green transitions will be socially fair DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? This workshop sheds light over some of the key fields of law that are both deemed essential and controversial to incentivize the digital circular economy. It brings together top international experts in the fields of trade secrecy, data governance, to intellectual property rights, competition law and AI and tech regulation, engaging into a thorough discussion on the role of law for the digital circular economy.

The workshop is organized by the University of Lapland, Faculty of law and is kindly supported by the profiling area project ATLAS. The workshop is open for all.

Programme

Opening
9.35-10.05 Trade Secrets and Deep Secrets (Rochelle Dreyfuss, New York University)
10.05-10.30 Right to repair: a global north and global south perspective (Rosa Ballardini and Beata Mäihäniemi, University of Lapland)
Coffee break
10.45-11.15 Upcycling and trademarks (Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam)
11.15-11.45 Upcycling and Copyright – Towards a Sustainable Transformativeness (Peter Mezei, Szeged University)
11.45-12.15 Legal personhood, AI and sustainability transitions (Rob van den Hoven van Genderen)
Summing up and closing (Ballardini and van den Hoven van Genderen)

Information for students:
Students can gain 1 ECTS (under the general optional studies, Code ONVAL9999 or OTMVAL9999) by attending both seminars and submitting a learning diary. The learning diary should summaries two key issues learned during the seminars. It should be around 3–5 pages (Times New Roman, 12) in length. It shall be sent to Rosa Ballardini (rosa.ballardini@ulapland.fi) by the 30.10.2024.

Speakers and abstracts