On April 2, the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University will celebrate its 40th anniversary as the oldest digital law department in the Netherlands and the second in Europe. For that occasion, eLaw will host a conference with prominent speakers from academia and public institutions.

The event will host the Hans Franken Lecture (with a special Keynote speaker), a roundtable about the history and role of digital law departments in Europe, and different thematic panels on the topics of law, digital platforms, AI regulation, vulnerability, and human-machine interactions, in which eLaw scholars will discuss their research with international colleagues of different seniority and from diverse disciplines. The event will be held in Leiden Law School and the Academic building.

More information will follow soon.

At the end of June 2024, the first eLaw Conference brought together 140 participants from four different continents. The two-day conference centred on the theme of ‘Law and/versus Technology’ and provided various avenues for in-depth discussions on the most pressing questions in the field of law and digital technologies.

eLaw co-organized the SAILS summer conference on Law and Artificial Intelligence as part of the interfaculty and interdisciplinary research programme on Artificial Intelligence (SAILS) at Leiden University.

On Friday November 2nd 2018, eLaw hosted a one-day conference on the new EU Data Protection Law that came into force earlier that year.

Around the eightieth birthday of the eminent Leiden legal scholar, administrator and politician Prof. Hans Franken, the Faculty of Law organised a symposium on 9 September 2016.

See our news item (in Dutch) about this symposium.