Next April 3-4, the 2025 conference of the "Public-Private Challenge", a joint research initiative of Erasmus School of Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, will take place in the beautiful city of Groningen. The theme of the conference will be "'Law in the Age of Transitions: Public Interests and Private Powers'.
The conference will focus on the role of law in structuring two key transitions that play a defining role in this emerging socio-economic organisation: the digital and the green transition. Developments in these fields have been rapid, with legislative initiatives like the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Service Act, the Net-Zero Industry Act, or the Critical Raw Materials Act having far-reaching ambitions and shaking-up the political economy of the Union. Drawing from this transformational spirit, this conference concentrates on how law reinterprets the public-private challenge and revises the balance between public and private actors. In other words, how does the law restructure claims and burdens, rights and entitlements between private and public actors in these emerging transitions?
For a detailed description of the call for for papers follow this link.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 December 2024.