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Zentrum für Regulierung und Vertragsrecht (CRCL)

Workshop Juli 2025

The CRCL is pleased to organize the upcoming Workshop Regulatory Contract Law, which will take place on July 3-5, 2025, at the University of Zurich. The conference will feature discussions on various aspects of regulation within contractual relationships.

Further information can be found on the Workshop Flyer (PDF, 6 MB).

 

Program

 

July 3, University of Zurich, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zurich, Room: KAB-G-01

 

Part I. Contract Law as a Regulatory Subject

09:00 - 09:15

 Introduction, Yeşim M. Atamer (Zurich Univ.)

09:15 - 11:15

1. Panel, Chair: Alexander Hellgardt (Augsburg Univ.)
• Florian Reverchon (Université Toulouse Capitole): Contract Law Regulation in the Ius Commune 
• Karl Riesenhuber (Bochum Univ.): Development of EU Contract Law Regulation
• Hugh Collins (LSE): Contract Law and Regulation– quo vadis?
• Martijn Hesselink (EUI): Beyond contract regulation: non-reformist reform and prefiguration
• Hanoch Dagan (Berkeley School of Lawl): Regulating Contracts – Strictly Speaking  
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

 

 

Part III. Who Shall Regulate and How?

11:30 - 13:00

2. Panel, Chair: Yeşim M. Atamer (Zurich Univ.)
• Johannes Ungerer (Oxford Univ.): Default Rules 
• Ori Katz (Bar-Ilan Univ.): Mandatory Rules 
• Gregory Klass (Georgetown Law): Disclosure Duties in Contract Law as a Regulatory Tool 
• Eyal Zamir (Hebrew Univ.):Disclosures, Defaults, and Mandatory Rules: Conceptions and Misconception 

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

 3. Panel, Chair: Yoan Hermstrüwer (Zurich Univ.)
• Fabrizio Cafaggi (EUI, Italian Council of State): Regulating Through Transnational Commercial Contracts
• Aditi Bagchi (Fordham Univ.): Institutional Design Choices
• Johanna Stark (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance): Regulatory Competition
• Brian Bix (Minnesota Univ.): Efficiency
• Jeannie Marie Paterson (Melbourne Univ.): Standards, Rules and Contract Regulation  
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45

 4. Panel, Chair: Michael Klausner (Stanford Univ.)
• Christoph Busch (Osnabrueck and Yale Univ.):Regulation through Personalized Contract Law  
• Antonis Karampatzos (AthensUniv.): Nudging and Regulation 
• Meirav Furth-Matzkin (Tel Aviv Univ.): Psychology, Regulation and Consumer Contracts 
• Alexander Hellgardt (Augsburg Univ.): Contracts Regulation and Courts

 

 

 

July 4, University of Zurich, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zurich, Room: KAB-G-01

 

09:00 - 10:30

5. Panel, Chair: Kevin Davis (NYU)
• Cathy Hwang (Virginia Univ.)/Danielle D’Onfro (Washington Univ.): Tortious Interference with Contract and Regulation
• Mark Gergen (Berkeley School of Law): Remedies 
• Tanja Domej (Zürich Univ.): Enforcement Mechanisms
• Giesela Rühl (Humboldt Univ. of Berlin: Private International Law
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

 

 

Part IV. Regulation of Specific Contractual Aspects

10:45 - 12:45

6. Panel, Chair: Rolf H. Weber (Zurich Univ.)
• Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (Universidad Carlos Ill de Madrid): Contract Law, Regulation and Technology
• Florian Möslein (Marburg Univ.): The Regulation of Automated Contracting  
• Mateusz Grochowski(Tulane and Yale Univ.): The Epistemic Puzzle of Digital Market Regulation 
• Adrian Künzler (Hong Kong Univ.): Contractual Discrimination through Algorithmic Personalisation 
• Axel Metzger (Humboldt Univ. of Berlin): Data Protection and Contract Regulation 

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch
Optional: Tour at Kunsthaus Zürich with brown bag lunch

13:45 - 15:15

 7. Panel, Chair: Olha O. Cherednychenko (GroningenUniv.)
• Evelyne Terryn (KU Leuven): Consumer Contracts and Regulation
• Danny Busch (Radboud Univ.): The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract in the Financial Sector 
• Aline Darbellay (Zurich Univ.): Interactions between Regulatory and Contractual Duties of Financial Services Providers 
• Piotr Tereszkiewicz (Jagiellonian Univ.): Insurance Contracts and Regulation
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45

 8. Panel, Chair: Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (Universidad Carlos Ill de Madrid)
• Yeşim M. Atamer (Zurich Univ.): Long Term Contracts / Relational Contracts and Regulation
• Walter Doralt (Graz Univ.): Regulation and Lease Contracts 
• Rachel Arnow-Richman (Florida Univ.): Non-Compete Clauses and Regulation
• Geneviève Helleringer (Oxford Univ.): Corporate Governance as Contractual Regulation

 

July 5, University of Zurich, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zurich, Room: KAB-G-01

 

Part II. Regulatory Goals and Values

09:00 - 10:30

 9. Panel, Chair: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew Univ.)
• Willem van Boom (Radboud Univ.): Autonomy  
• Olha O. Cherednychenko (GroningenUniv.): Non-Discrimination 
• Kevin Davis (NYU): Inequality
• Prince Saprai (UCL London): Common Good

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 12:15

10. Panel, Chair: Lisa Bernstein (Chicago Univ.)
• Chantal Mak (Amsterdam Univ.): Fundamental Rights
• Ciara Kennefick (Oxford Univ.): Price Fairness
• Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir (Hebrew Univ.): Distributive Justice
• Beate Gsell (Munich Univ.): Sustainability   
12:15 - 12:30 Closing remarks: Alexander Hellgardt (Augsburg Univ.)