The Economic Law Unit of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) organizes on March 5th, in partnership with the law firm Bird & Bird, in collaboration with the Université de Liège, Université de Montréal and Université de Genève and with the support of the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS), the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the G3, 2019, a bilingual (FR-EN) interactive international symposium (Law Camp) on the theme Construire un droit des données – Designing Data Law.

During the morning sessions, 24 proposals dedicated to the shaping of Data Law will be presented, discussed and put to a vote. In the afternoon, the discussions will be continued in plenary session. Two keynote speakers will liven the program up even more.

The proposals are grouped by theme:

  • Data and Intellectual Property

  • Data and Competition

  • Data and Trade Secrets

  • Data as a Legal Object

  • Data and Public Authorities

  • Personal Data and Business

  • Data and Automated Processing

  • Data, Science and Education

As an introduction to the symposium, a theater play (Antoine Defoort, “Un faible degré d’originalité”) will be organized on the night before (March 4th).

Date : 4 and 5 March 2019

Place : ULB, Campus du Solbosch, K Building (5 March 2019 – Law Camp), Salle Delvaux (4 March 2019 - theater play)

Discover the complete program and register here.

Discover the interview of the organizers here.

Scientific Committee:

Andrée Puttemans (ULB-KULeuven), Julien Cabay (FNRS-ULB-ULiège), Jacques de Werra (Université de Genève), Séverine Dusollier (Science Po Paris), Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal), Alain Strowel (UCL-USL-KULeuven), Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel (ULiège)