July 8, 9, 10, 2024 at the Tilburg University campus 

TILTing Perspectives 2024

“Looking back, moving forward” : Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds

The Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT),  is delighted to announce the 8th edition of the TILTing Perspectives Conference “Looking back, moving forward: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds”.

The conference will take place on July 8, 9, 10, 2024 at the Tilburg University campus and will coincide with TILT’s 30th anniversary celebrations. We see this as a fitting moment to take stock of decades of technology regulation and how it impacts our lives and the digitalized worlds around us.

Looking back, moving forward: What has been accomplished? By whom? And where? What is missing? Who is missing? What can we say about the relations between technology-focused regulation and other regulatory foci and modes of standard-setting?

Reflecting on these questions leads us along diverse paths of inquiry. In the realm of governance: the ways in which different forms of technology regulation are being designed, critiqued, promoted, exported, and rejected, raise questions of standing and agency with regard to technology as a power, as well as on regulatory power. On the intersection of human rights & technology, perceived challenges to a broad range of established fundamental rights raise questions about the suitability of old and new legal frameworks such as treaty law and national constitutions, the proposed EU AI Act, Data Protection, and Cyber and Data Security regulation — not least in situations of warfare. Questions with regard to competition & innovation focus on the regulatory challenges posed by ongoing social and technological transformations in key sectors such as energy, finance and healthcare, as well as the challenges of (finding new ways of) regulating competition and intellectual property rights in an increasingly digitalized world.

Deadline for Submission-January 15, 2024.

We value the multi- and inter-disciplinary approach highly, yet are also open to specialized papers on a relevant topic from a particular scientific discipline.

We welcome:

1. Extended abstracts for presentation of research papers, position papers, works-in-progress and other academic contributions fitting the conference theme.
2. Proposals for panels and interactive workshops fitting the conference theme.

Submission Instructions

• Submission of extended abstracts for presentations
  • Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (min. 500 words – max. 1500 words, excluding footnotes, endnotes, bibliography) to the relevant track/virtual Deep-Dive session via the EasyChair conference system by January 15, 2024.
  • Abstracts can be submitted directly or via the ‘paper-upload’ option.
  • Multiple submissions to different tracks and/or the virtual Deep-Dive session are permitted.
  • Notification of acceptance will be conveyed by March 5, 2024.
• Submission of proposals for panels and interactive workshops
  • Proposals for panels and interactive workshops fitting the conference theme should be submitted to the relevant track via the EasyChair conference system by January 15, 2024. 
  • Multiple submissions to different tracks are permitted (N.B. panel proposals are not entertained for the virtual Deep-Dive session).
  • Notification of acceptance will be conveyed by March 5, 2024.
  • The proposal should include the following:
    • A description of the panel/interactive workshop and its relevance and potential to contribute to the conference theme (min. 250 words – max. 500 words, excluding footnotes, endnotes, bibliography) and;
    • Extended abstracts of each individual presentation to be made within the panel (min. 500 words – max. 1500 words, excluding footnotes, endnotes, bibliography).

Please include panel/workshop description and abstracts of individual presentations in one single document. The document can be submitted via  the ‘paper upload’ option on EasyChair.

• Submission of full papers (optional for accepted authors)
  • Accepted authors have the opportunity to submit full-papers (previously unpublished) for publication in a special issue of the Technology and Regulation (TechReg) journal (expected date of publication: Spring 2025). Papers will be selected for publication following a peer-review process.
  • To be considered for publication in the special issue, papers must comply with the submission guidelines of the journal.
  • The deadline for submitting full papers is June 5, 2024 (the link for submitting full papers will be provided to accepted authors via email).
  • Authors who submit full-papers by the given deadline will have the choice of opting for a PLSC-style discussion at the TILTing 2024 conference. We will do our best to accommodate all requests. However, please note that our ability to organize a PLSC-style discussion will depend on the availability of a suitable discussant among registered conference participants and the availability of a sufficient timeslot within the conference program.

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