Transatlantic Seminar Series on Consumer Law, Technology, and Inequality
Consumer Privacy and Inequality
September 1, 2021
The inaugural event of the series focused on consumer privacy and inequality.
Speakers
Hayley Tsukayama, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ari Ezra Waldman, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University School of Law
Christiane Wendehorst; Professor of Civil Law, University of Vienna and President of the European Law Institute
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor.
Moderator
Przemysław Pałka; Assistant Professor, Future Law Lab, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Former Fellow in Private Law at Yale Law School
Consumer Privacy and Inequality event summary
Consumer Financial Services and Inequality
November 10, 2022
The series continued to analyze the intersections of digitalization and growing socioeconomic inequalities from U.S. and European perspectives. The second online event of the series focused on consumer financial services and inequality. Speakers explored current issues of consumer financial services in the E.U. and the U.S.
Speakers
Olha Cherednychenko (Professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law, University of Groningen)
Juliane Kokott (Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union)
Rory van Loo (Professor of Law, Boston University)
Consumer Financial Services and Inequality event summary
Big Tech, Consumers and Inequality
April 20, 2022
Speakers
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)
Sarah Miller (American Economic Liberties Project)
Moderator
Przemysław Pałka; Assistant Professor, Future Law Lab, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Former Fellow in Private Law at Yale Law School
Big Tech, Consumers and Inequality event summary
2022 Seminar in Private Law
Private Orderings & Public Justice
February 1 - April 26, 2022
The 2022 Seminar in Private Law examined questions about the relationship between private orderings and public justice. We explored how private law and the private arrangements that it enables and facilitates — e.g., through contracts, property rights, or corporate law — relate to (public) concerns with justice.