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Center for Regulation and Contract Law (CRCL)

Workshop July 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 Regulation in the Ius Commune
  • Karl Riesenhuber (Bochum Univ.): EU Contract Regulation
  • Hugh Collins (LSE): Resolving the Clash of Regulatory Systems of Contracts
  • Martijn Hesselink (EUI): Beyond Contract Regulation: Non-Reformist Reform and Prefiguration
  • Hanoch Dagan (Berkeley School of Law): Regulating Contracts, Strictly Speaking (Zoom)
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

• 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): Contracting in global supply chains: the challenges of due diligence obligations (Zoom)
  • Aditi Bagchi (Fordham Univ.): The Time, Place and Manner of Contract Regulation
  • Johanna Stark (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance): Regulatory Competition and Regulatory Contract Law
  • Brian Bix (Minnesota Univ.): Fairness in Contract Law: An Impossibility Theorem
  • Jeannie Marie Paterson (Melbourne Univ.): Rules, Standards, 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 (Athens Univ.): Nudging and Regulation in Contract Law
  • Meirav Furth-Matzkin (Tel Aviv Univ.): The Law & Psychology of Consumer Contract Adjudication
  • 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: Blurring Private Life & Regulation
  • Mark P. 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.

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 15:15

 7. Panel, Chair: Olha O. Cherednychenko (GroningenUniv.)
  • Aline Darbellay (Zurich Univ.): Interactions Between Regulatory and Contractual Duties of Financial Services Providers
  • Geneviève Helleringer (Oxford Univ.): Corporate Governance as Contractual Regulation
  • Piotr Tereszkiewicz (Jagiellonian Univ.): The Regulation of Insurance Contracts
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 Contractual Relations and the Need for Regulation
  • Rachel Arnow-Richman (Florida Univ.): Regulatory Contract Law Meets Employment at Will: Collision or Revision?
  • Walter Doralt (Graz Univ.): Regulation and Lease Contracts (residential/housing)

 

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 in Contract as a Regulatory Goal
  • Olha O. Cherednychenko (Groningen Univ.): Non-Discrimination, Contract Law and Regulation
  • Kevin E. Davis (NYU): Contract Law and Inequality
  • Prince Saprai (UCL London): Contract Law and the Common Good

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 12:15

10. Panel, Chair: Lisa Bernstein (Chicago Univ.)
  • Chantal Mak (Amsterdam Univ.): Contract Law, Regulation and Fundamental Rights
  • Ciara Kennefick (Oxford Univ.): Regulation by Contract Law: Rules on Fair Prices
  • Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir (Hebrew Univ.): Distributive Justice and Contract Regulation (Zoom)
  • Beate Gsell (Munich Univ.): Sustainability
12:15 - 12:30 Closing remarks: Alexander Hellgardt (Augsburg Univ.)