Save the Date: Conference Marking 20 Years of the Rome II Regulation

On 17 and 18 June 2027, the Centre for Private Law Research (CIDP) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon is organising a conference entitled “20 Years of the Rome II Regulation: Assessment and Prospects for Reform”. The conference will take place in Lisbon, with the support of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Main topics include personality rights, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), collective redress, corporate social and environmental responsibility, party autonomy, financial market torts and prospectus liability, the liability of public entities, online torts, artificial intelligence, the GDPR, the relationship between Rome II and Brussels I bis, the delimitation of Rome II vis-à-vis Rome I, liability insurance, and the protection of human rights. A final session will offer perspectives on the Rome II Regulation from across the Atlantic, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Luxembourg and Brussels.

Speakers include Dário Moura Vicente (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa / CIDP), Jan von Hein (University of Freiburg), Rui Dias (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra), João Gomes de Almeida (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa / CIDP), Pietro Franzina (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Giesela Rühl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Matthias Lehmann (University of Vienna / European Law Institute), Afonso Patrão (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra / Tribunal Constitucional), Pedro de Miguel Asensio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Marion Ho-Dac (Université d’Artois / TMC Asser Instituut), Anabela Gonçalves (Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho), Jeremy Heymann (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), Celia Caamiña Domínguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Elsa Dias Oliveira (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa / CIDP), Symeon C. Symeonides (Dean Emeritus Willamette University), Thomas Kadner Graziano (Faculté de Droit, Université de Genève), Andrew Dickinson (University of Oxford), Carlos Marinho (Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa), Marta Requejo Isidro (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela / Court of Justice of the EU) and Karen Vandekerckhove (European Commission Head of Unit-Civil Justice).

The sessions will be chaired by Luís Menezes Leitão, Maria Helena Brito, Miguel Teixeira de Sousa, Nuno Andrade Pissarra and Luís de Lima Pinheiro.

Entry is free upon registration addressed to <inscricoes@cidp.pt>