EAPIL YRN Conference on Privacy and Personality Rights (Luxembourg and Online, 26 March 2026)

The authors of this post are Mathilde Codazzi (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris), Paul Eichmüller (University of Vienna) and Marco Pasqua (Examiner – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), co-Chairs of the EAPIL Young Research Network. 

As already noted on this blog, the EAPIL Young Research Network (YRN) will hold its 5th Project Final Conference on Privacy and Personality Rights Violations in the Conflict of Laws on 26 March 2026 at the University of Luxembourg. The event is organised under the auspices of EAPIL and the University of Luxembourg, both generously supporting the initiative.

The conference will begin with a welcome address at 1:00 pm CET delivered by Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxembourg and President of EAPIL), together with the EAPIL YRN Co-Chairs Mathilde Codazzi, Paul Eichmüller and Marco Pasqua.

The first panel, starting at 1:15 pm CET and chaired by Gilles Cuniberti, will address The EU Perspective: Commission, Court and Academia. It will feature presentations by Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxembourg), Marta Requejo Isidro (Court of Justice of the European Union) and Norel Rosner (DG JUST, European Commission). A Q&A session will follow.

At 2:30 pm CET, the second panel, chaired by Marco Pasqua (Examiner – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), will focus on The Content and Design of the National Conflicts Rules. Speakers will present national solutions with contributions from Lithuania by Agnė Kisieliauskaitė, Dominykas Kiršis and Titas Burneckas (Ellex Legal, Vilnius), from Poland by Edyta Figura-Góralczyk (Kraków University of Economics) and Wojciech Wydmański (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw) and from Slovakia by Dominika Moravcová (University of Trnava).

Following a coffee break, the third panel will begin at 3:30 pm CET chaired by Mathilde Codazzi (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris). The session, titled Foreseeability, Choice of Law and Mandatory Rules, will include contributions from Romania, with Alina Oprea (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca), from Croatia with Jura Golub (University of Osijek) and from Switzerland with Luisa Reininghaus (University of Geneva). A joint Q&A session for the second and third panels will follow.

At 4:30 pm CET, the YRN Co-Chairs – Mathilde Codazzi (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris), Paul Eichmüller (University of Vienna) and Marco Pasqua (Examiner – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) – will present the comparative report of the project. The conference will conclude with closing remarks, followed by a cocktail reception.

The conference programme is available here.

Participation is free of charge and is possible both in person and online. In either case, prior registration is required by 25 March 2026 here.