Call for Abstracts! European Privacy Law Scholars Conference! University of Amsterdam, 24-25 October 2024!
What is PLSC-Europe?
Just like PLSC in the United States, PLSC-Europe is a paper workshop conference. There is no opportunity or obligation to publish connected to the conference. The goal is to provide support for in-progress scholarship related to information privacy law. To do so, PLSC-Europe assembles a wide array of privacy scholars, and a number of academically engaged practitioners (from civil society or public and private sector).
Call For Abstracts And Guidelines
If you would like to workshop a paper, please submit a an abstract via our conference submission system by 3 May 2024.
Abstracts should be between 400-700 words and contain sufficient detail to review the approach and potential contribution of the work (for more detailed instructions, see below).
The program committee for the conference will review (double-blind) abstracts and acceptances will be made by 14 June 2024. Workshop versions of the paper are due 1 October 2024. We reserve the right to cancel workshops if the paper draft is not provided on time for meaningful evaluation by participants.
What should be in my abstract?
Your abstract should include enough specific information to enable the program committee to appreciate both the genesis of your project and the nature of its contribution to the field. Your abstract should elaborate on your objective, research question(s) and methodology. It should also show your awareness of the existing relevant literatures and explain how your work relates to those literatures, such as how it expands upon them, makes connections between them, or differs from them. A typical (law) journal abstract will generally be insufficient for this purpose.
Please be prepare to enter the following information through out submission platform:
- Title + anonymous abstract of 400-700 words
- Author(s) information and affiliation(s). Submissions should be transparent about relevant sponsorship and conflicts of interest
- Five keywords
- Indicative bibliography
Please note: If your own prior work is part of a literature to which your abstract refers, the abstract should refer to your work in the third person–e.g. “As Smith argued in (2019),” rather than “my/our work published in the XYZ law review” or “my/our work presented at last year’s PLSC.”
PLEASE NOTE: Abstracts that violate this rule and reveal the identity of the author(s) will be rejected. There is no option to upload papers or materials.
Any funding and sponsorship must be disclosed. We also require a conflict of interest statement on scholarship. There is a space in the abstract submission portal to do so.
Key Dates
Abstracts due: 3 May 2024
Announcement of acceptance: 14 June 2024
Papers due: 1 October 2024
PLSC-Europe 2024: 24 October (from 13:30) and 25 October 2024
Participation Registration
We welcome submissions and registration from all backgrounds, jurisdictions and levels of seniority. Please note that conference participants will be expected to read the papers of the sessions they attend in advance to ensure high-quality discussions. Thus, please plan for sufficient preparation time in advance of the conference. The papers will be made available to conference participants on October 1st, 2024, the latest.
Registration fees are as follows:
- Standard: € 175;
- Students/NGO’s: € 95.
Limited funds might be available for covering travel expenses of some participants. We will prioritise people without institutional backing and coming from outside the EU/US.
Registration will be opened on this website later this year.
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