We invite papers for a Utrecht Law Review Special Issue titled: Power in a Digitalized World: Evolving Perspectives on Competition Law, Regulation and Beyond.
The event sought to address the promises and dangers of influencing user behaviour online, and to reflect on necessary regulation in addressing new challenges
Pauline Phoa, Assistant professor of European law, discusses the question: Is the EU’s regime fit to face the demands of our era of Big Tech and ‘big data’?
Lisanne Hummel, PhD-candidate at the law department, shares her thoughts on contestability in the digital sector in light of the new Digital Markets Act.
Viktorija Morozovaite, PhD Candidate at the law department, addresses if the new Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act will have effect on transparency of digital platforms.
Carla Farinhas (Utrecht University) organised and moderated an online talk on interim measures in competition law proceedings at EU and national level.
As of January 1st, 2020 Anna is steering committee member of the Focus Area ‘Governing the Digital Society’ (GDS), alongside José van Dijck, Janneke Gerards, Albert Meijer, and Mirko Schaefer. GDS is an interdisciplinary research group within Utrecht University (1 January 2020 – 1 January 2026)
In November 2019 Anna was an invited speaker on Big Tech’s Modern Bigness; challenges for European Competition Law in Bucharest.
In October 2019 Anna was an invited speaker on Sustainability and Competition Law at the Global Competition Law Center in Brussels.
In September 2019 Anna was an invited speaker on Open Societies, Big Tech and responses of the law, at the Institutions for Open Societies Toogdag in Utrecht.
In May 2019 Anna was an invited speaker at the Rondetafelgesprek/Expert meeting Parliament (vaste kamercommissie voor BZK), on Datasamenleving en Democratie (Datafied society and Democracy).
In April 2019 Anna was an invited speaker at Dag van de Filosofie, on ‘Macht van de tech-giganten’ (Power of Tech-giants).
In April 2019 Anna was an invited speaker at Artikel 1-lezing, on ‘Discriminatie door algoritmen: een reguleringsperspectief’ (Discrimination by algorithms; a regulatory perspective).
In April 2019 Anna was Chair of a young scholars Round Table Meeting of the Platform Markets & Business.
In December 2018 Anna was an invited speaker at UGlobe Disrupting Technologies Dialogue, on ‘Ethics and Regulatory Challenges of the Platform Economy’.
In November 2018 Anna was an invited speaker at an expert meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ‘Regulering van algoritmes’, on the regulation of transparency of algorithms.
In November 2018 Anna was an invited speaker on Modern Bigness at the European Law conference of the Swedish Association for European Law in Stockholm, Sweden.
In September 2018 Anna was an invited speaker at the Competition Day, Austrian Presidency of the European Union, Vienna. She gave a presentation on ‘Is it time for European Hipster Competition Law?’.
