The Digital Consumer Contract Law and New Technologies Conference will take place November 26-27

The Digital Consumer Contract Law and New Technologies Conference will take place November 26-27, 2020 on the Zoom platform.

In 2019, the EU adopted two new Directives in the field of consumer contract law: The Directive on Contracts for the Supply of Digital Content and Services 2019/770 and the Consumer Sales Directive 2019/771. Both directives harmonise key consumer contract law rules regarding digital content, digital services, and smart goods across the EU.

At our conference, international high-level experts from different European countries will deal with the scope and content of the new directives, their implications for industry and the question of how the new rules should be transposed in Member States. An additional panel will look at new technologies and business models (AI, blockchain, internet of bodies, Legal Tech) to see whether the new rules for consumer contracts are fit to deal with them.

The conference is suitable for all legal practitioners, academics, students, judges and government officials dealing with issues of digitalization and (consumer) contract law.

Please find additional information about the programme HERE.

The number of participants is full, so registration for the conference is now closed!

The conference forms part of the Project “PRG124 Protection of consumer rights in the Digital Single Market – contractual aspects”, funded by the Estonian Research Council. It is additionally supported by the Social Sciences Development Fund.

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Karin Sein and Prof. Dr. Martin Ebers.

Further information:
Martin Ebers, Associate Professor of Information Technology Law, martin.ebers@ut.ee
Karin Sein, Professor in Civil Law, karin.sein@ut.ee
Triin Metsallik, Academic Affairs Specialist, triin.metsallik@ut.ee