Digital Legal Talks 2026

Digital Legal Talks 2026 is the sixth edition of the annual conference hosted by the Digital Legal Lab, taking place on November 27, 2026, in Utrecht as a fully in-person event. Centered around the overarching theme of “Law & Digitalization,” the conference brings together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from diverse disciplines to foster meaningful dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Participants will have the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research, exchange insights, and examine the profound implications of technological advancements on legal practice, regulation, and policy. Core topics explored throughout the conference include:

• Responsible digitalisation & regulation of AI
• Digitalisation of justice systems & dispute resolution
• Technology for law & legal practice
• Digital platforms as infrastructures & enforcers of public interests
• Enforcement, use of technology, and human rights
• Cybersecurity, cybercrime, and cyber investigations
• Data protection and privacy

The 2026 edition features distinguished keynote addresses by Martijn Snoep (Chairman of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets – ACM) and Prof. Sylvie Delacroix (Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law and Director of the Centre for Data Futures at King’s College London), who will deliver a keynote address on participatory AI.

AlgoSoc members will also be present at the following sessions:

Session 1D (11:00 - 12:30): Platform Governance, Systemic Risks & Content Moderation under the DSA

• João Pedro Quintais (presenting), Matteo Fabbri and John Albert | Practices Before Principles: Regulating Systemic Risks from Generative AI under the DSA

• Ronan Fahy (presenting), Gabriela Trogrlić, Joris van Hoboken, David Abella and David Laniado | The Digital Services Act, Wikipedia, and Election Disinformation Regulation

Session 1E (11:00 - 12:30): Book Launch - Cambridge Handbook of AI in Civil Dispute Resolution (edited by Amy J. Schmitz, Marco Giacalone and Pietro Ortolani)

• Moderated by Pietro Ortolani; Speakers: Natali Helberger · Isabella Banks · Anna van Duin · Roberto Baumgarten Kuster · Pieter van Riemsdijk

Session 2A (15:00 - 16:30): Public Enforcement, Regulatory Architecture & Institutional Governance

• Charis Papaevangelou (presenting), Sabrina Kutscher, Natali Helberger, José van Dijck and Thomas Poell | Shared responsibility, unequal power: Mapping the limitations of multi-stakeholderism in the EU’s digital governance

Session 2C (15:00 - 16:30): Digital Justice & Algorithmic Fairness

• Isabella Banks | Human oversight of artificial intelligence in the Dutch judiciary

Session 2D (15:00 - 16:30): Digital Markets, Enforcement & Competition

• Gabriela Trogrlić | The GenAI-to-Platform Media Value Chain: Regulating Power Asymmetries in EU Law

• Paddy Leerssen, Anna van Duin (presenting) and Joris van Hoboken | Platform Regulation Through Civil Courts: The DSA’s Private Enforcement on the Ground

The full program is available here.