Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA) in collaboration with University of Tartu organizes the conference

European Contract Law in the Digital Age

Tartu, School of Law, University of Tartu

June 17-18, 2016

Friday, 17 June 2016
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Peep Pruks, Director of the Faculty of Law, Tartu
Prof. Irene Kull, Tartu
Prof. Stefan Grundmann, Florence / Berlin
9:20-10:50 I. The Global Contract – Digital Contracts and Market Building
Chair: Prof. Stefan Grundmann, Florence (EUI) / Berlin
1. Regulating Contract Platforms, the Case of Airbnb – Prof. Vanessa Mak, Tilburg
2. Contract Platforms and Crowdfunding – Prof. Carmen Estevan, Valencia
3. Digital Contracts in Global Surroundings – Prof. Dan Svantesson, Oxford /Robina/Queensland
10:50 Coffee Break
11:15 Discussion – Introduction by P. Palka (EUI)
12:00 Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 II. The Virtual Contract – Contract Formation in Bits and Bytes
Chair: Prof. Pietro Sirena, Milan
1. Digitalisation of Contract Regimes under the ECommerce-Directive – Prof. Roger Brownsword, London
2. Smart Contracts – Choices Made by Algorithms – Prof. Primavera del Filippi (Paris)
14:45 Short Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Chair Prof. Jacobien Rutgers, Amsterdam
3. The Contractual Regime of Bitcoins – Prof. Kristoffer Schollin, Göteborg
4. The Contractual Regime of PayPal and Electronic Payments – Prof. Irene Kull, Tartu
Discussion – Introduction by F. Idelberger (EUI)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 III. The Liquid Contract: Modes of Contract Running Evolution
Chair: Prof. Hugh Collins, Oxford
1. Documentation und Updates as Legal Regime – Prof. Giuliana Scognamiglio, Rome
2. Technical Standards as Contract Law Regime – Prof. Giovanni Sartor, Florence (EUI) / Bologna
18:30 -19:15 3. High Frequency Trading and (Un-)Fairness – Prof. Gerald Spindler, Göttingen
20:30 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 18 June 2016
9:00 Secola General Assembly
9:45-11:30 IV. The Trojan Horse Contract: Digital Content as Object of Contracts
Chair: Prof. Fernando Gomez, Barcelona
1. A Digital CESL I: Survey on new projects – Andrus Ansip, Vice President European Commission
2. A Digital CESL II: A Suitability Assessment – Prof. Michael Grünberger, Bayreuth
3. A Digital CESL III: A Paradigm for Contract Law via the Backdoor? – Prof. Christina Ramberg, Stockholm
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 4. Hardware and Software: Obsolescence via Combination (Hardware and Software) – Prof. Andrea Wechsler, Pforzheim
5. Contracts on Cloud Computing – Prof. Ulf Petrusson, Göteborg
13:30 V. Concluding Remarks – Prof. Stefan Grundmann & Prof. Irene Kull
15:00 Tartu City Tour, visit to the Estonian Supreme Court (Tartu)

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