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Open track 30: Litigation strategies at a time of digital transformation: New Directions of EU Law
Time:
Monday, 02/Sept/2024:
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Session Chair: Rebecca Zahn
Presentations
Litigation strategies at a time of digital transformation: New Directions of EU Law
Chair(s): Rebecca Zahn (University of Strathclyde)
Presenter(s): Elaine Fahey (City, University of London), Fabien Terpan (Sciences Po Grenoble), Rebecca Zahn (University of Strathclyde)
This roundtable brings together members of the EUFutures research network, funded by a UACES-JMCT grant from 2022-2025, to discuss multi-disciplinary approaches to studying the successes and failures of interest groups in the European Union when they choose to litigate in the digital field.
EU integration has always been triggered by law and courts. Top-down approaches have shown how the European Court of Justice (CJEU) exerted judicial activism to influence the development of EU law in many fields. Bottom-up approaches have focused on private actors using EU law to defend their interests and causes through litigation strategies.
In this context European Union Digital law has developed as an emerging field with many recent specific laws covering various topics such as data protection, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, and the potential to impact any other EU policies from competition law to internal market and social policy. Digital issues, as a quite recent field of EU law, can be seen as a legal (battle)field where interest groups not only lobby EU institutions but also implement litigation strategies. Two categories of interest groups have engaged in litigation on digital issues: economic interest groups, including the Big Tech, and interest groups acting in the name of citizens. Many disputes brought before the courts have opposed these two categories of litigants.
The question therefore arises: which of these interest groups are most successful in EU and national courts, and why?
To answer this question, the contributors to this roundtable will focus on different sub-fields of EU law such as data protection, artificial intelligence, and consumer rights, drawing on the participants’ own research.
In doing so, the roundtable will make the network visible and will bring together scholars working on multi-disciplinary approaches to EU Digital Law.
