 | PLSC-E 2026: Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe Hosted by Centre of IT & IP Law (CiTiP) - KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium, October 29-30, 2026 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plsce2026 |
| Abstract registration deadline | May 15, 2026 |
| Submission deadline | October 4, 2026 |
PLSC Europe 2026
Hosted by Centre of IT & IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven.
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 sectors). Scholars from non-law disciplines – including but not limited to surveillance studies, information and technology studies, critical (legal) studies, humanities, and computer science – are crucial participants in this interdisciplinary field. We follow a format in which a discussant, rather than the author, introduces and leads a discussion on a paper. There are no panels or talking heads; attendees read papers in advance and offer constructive feedback as full participants in the workshop. Having your paper accepted is not a requirement for attending and contributing to the conference, and indeed, many attendees do not present a paper.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts should be between 400-700 words and contain sufficient detail to review the approach and potential contribution of the work.
As a paper workshop conference, authors are free to submit a working paper (draft, in progress) for which they seek constructive feedback and suggestions for improvement/evolution. There are no formal requirements for the paper. The paper is then discussed by the discussant and audience, and authors and participants should leave the session inspired by the discussion and with insights that will help them in their own work
The program committee for the conference will review (double-blind) abstracts. Authors of abstracts that are accepted will be notified by 20 June 2025. Workshop versions of the paper are due by 1 October 2025. We reserve the right to cancel workshops if the paper draft is not provided on time for meaningful evaluation by participants. The confirmation of the conference and of its logistics will follow in further communication.
Committees
Organizing Committee
Program committee
- Jef Ausloos, University of Amsterdam
- Rocco Bellanova, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Franziska Boehm, FIZ Karlsruhe
- Damian Clifford, Australian National University
- Jennifer Cobbe, University of Cambridge
- Ignacio Cofone, Oxford University
- Mark David Cole, University of Luxembourg
- Bart Custers, Leiden University
- David Erdos, University of Cambridge
- Marta Cantero Gamito, University of Tartu
- Gloria González Fuster, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Mateusz Grochowski, Tulane University Law School
- Woodrow Hartzog, Boston University School of Law
- Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
- Kristina Irion, University of Amsterdam
- Margot Kaminski, University of Colorado Boulder
- Eleni Kosta, Tilburg University
- Maxime Lassalle, L’Université de Bourgogne Europe
- Eva Lievens, Ghent University
- Orla Lynskey, UCL
- Joanna Mazur, University of Warsaw
- Alessandro Mantelero, Politecnico di Torino
- Nóra Ní Loideáin, University of London
- Nadya Purtova, Utrecht University
- Giorgio Resta, Roma 3 University
- Neil Richards, Washington University in St.Louis
- Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Utrecht University
- Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna
- Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Joris van Hoboken, University of Amsterdam
- Simone van der Hof, Leiden University
- Bart van der Sloot, Tilburg University
- Ari Ezra Waldman, University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Monika Zalnieriute, Vilnius University Faculty of Law
- Gerrit-Jan Zwenne, Leiden University
Venue and Registration
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Law at KU Leuven, Belgium, on the 29th and 30th of October.
PLSC-Europe will be funded through institutional funds and registration fees only (standard: €185, students/NGO’s: €105). We will not seek corporate sponsorship for the conference.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to isa.rosalsantos@kuleuven.be