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Transnational Training Event

Artificial intelligence, judicial dialogue and consumer protection in individual and mass litigation

Barcelona (Spain),
13-14 February, 2025
Date
13-14 February, 2025
Host Partner
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Venue
Ciutadella Campus
Ramon Trias Fargas 25 — 08005
Barcelona (Spain)
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The use of ADM in digital markets is growing in importance and affecting market dynamics, transaction design and consumer´s welfare.

The TTE that will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona will focus on:

  • Studying the role of ADM in personalizing consumer transactions in digital markets.
  • Providing guidance to judges on adjudicating cases on assessing how machine learning may contribute to sorting, profiling and classifying cases and aid justice systems in reacting to massive litigation particularly in standardized cases such as consumer cases. In this respect the use of algorithms may enhance provision of effective judicial remedy in the meaning of Article 47 CFR
  • Analyzing the role of ADM in horizontal relationships and the effectiveness of fundamental rights
  • Providing an analytical framework for judicial oversight and control in cases where empirical evidence may suggest that algorithm behavior might result in practices ranging from discrimination to collusion jeopardizing the proper, smooth and fair functioning of the market.

 

Event Recordings

Event Proceedings

Programme

8:30 – 9:00

Registration

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
9:00 – 9:45

Welcome

Presentation of JuLIA
UPF JuLIA Team

Dr. Caterina Calsamiglia, ICREA Research Professor
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
9:15 – 10:30

AI and new challenges for consumer protection:
the new and complex normative landscape

Tommaso De Mari Casareto dal Verme, University of Trento

Session Chair: Mireia Artigot Golobardes

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break 
23.S05 Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium Hallway
11:00 – 12:00

The EU’s approach for addressing challenges arising from digital environments: the DSA and the DMA

Néstor Duch-Brown
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Session Chair: Cristina Vila Gibert, Senior Associate Cuatrecasas EU and Competition

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
12:00 – 13:00

AI & law practice & justice 
Overflowing courts: AI claims and consumer mass litigation

Francesc Muñoz, Cuatrecasas Firm 
Omar Puertas, Cuatrecasas Law Firm 
Judge José María Fernández Seijo, General Council of the Judiciary 
Judge Giuseppe Fiengo, AI and unfair contract terms

Session Chair: Jorge Azagra Malo, Uría Mendéndez

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break 
23.S05 Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium Hallway
14:00 – 15:00

Hypothetical 1
Precontractual practices

Session Chairs:

Group 1 – Room 40.041 – Tommaso De Mari Casareto dal Verme 
Group 2 – Room 40.241 – Lorena Flórez Rojas 
Group 3 – Room 40.247 – Paola Iamiceli

Groups will be announced at the session

15:00 – 15:30

Reconvene in plenary session

Session Chair: Tommaso De Mari Casareto dal Verme

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
15:30 – 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30

Targeted practices in digital markets pre-contractual dealings 
Implications of personalized commercial practices – targeted advertisement, personalized interfaces, dark patterns – for the dynamics of consumer transactions.

Prof. Cristiana Teixeira, University of Utrecht
Prof. Lorena Flórez Rojas, University of Groningen

Session Chair: Sonia Ramos Gonzalez

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
17:45 – 18:45

Keynote Address (remote)

Prof. Mark Geistfeld

Sheila Lubetsky Birnbaum Professor of Civil Litigation New York University Law School 
Reporter for ALI’s new Principles of the Law on AI torts

Session Chair: Fernando Gómez Pomar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

24.S18 Sala Polivalent Mercè Rodoreda
20:00

Dinner 
Restaurant Salamanca
Address: Carrer de Pepe Rubianes, 34 08003 Barcelona

Confirmation needed
8:45 – 9:00Registration
9:00 – 9:10Welcome by professor Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, Vicerrector of International affairs
9:00 – 10:30

Keynote address (remote)
The Genera Court’s insight on the new digital landscapes

Judge Krystyna Kowalik-Banczyk, General Court of the European Union

Session Chair: Mireia Artigot Golobardes, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

23.S05 Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium
10:30 – 12:00

Consumer contracts and AI: new contractual issues Automatization, Personalization and discrimination

Prof. Fernando Gómez Pomar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 
Prof. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Universidad Carlos III 
Prof. Katja Langenbucher, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt Am Main

Session Chair: Paola Iamiceli, University of Trento

23.S05 Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium
12:00 – 12:15Coffee Break
12:15 – 13:15

Hypothetical 2

Group 1 – Room 13.101 – Tommaso De Mari Casareto dal Verme 
Group 2 – Room 13-104 – Lorena Flórez Rojas
Group 3 – Room 23-S05 – Paola Iamiceli

Session Chair: Marisaria Maugeri, University of Catania

13:15 – 13:45

Reconvene in room for debate in plenary

23.S05 Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium
 Conference closing

 

14:00 – 15:00

Lunch upon request 
Please confirm to julia@upf.edu if you intend to have lunch at UPF or need a lunch bag.
13-14 February, 2025
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ciutadella Campus
Barcelona (Spain)