Global Data Law

The final part of the series, Comparative Data Law, will shift the focus and tackle Data Law from a Comparative Law perspective. Different instruments, different approaches, global effects of different kinds of regulation, and possible ways forward will be discussed.

The conference is scheduled to take place at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in December 2023.

The call for papers for the final conference “Comparative Data Law“ is now online. See here.

The second part of the series ‘Global Data Law’, the African Data Protection Laws: Regulation, Practice, and Policy Conference has taken place at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana from 13^th-15^th September 2022. 

The Conference spotlighted the developments of Data Law in Africa and opened a platform to discuss not only data protection laws and policies but also data-related issues emerging in Africa, specifically, data governance, data localization, and the digital economy, with a pan-African perspective.

The kick-off of the series has engaged with Global Data Strategies 
and has taken place at FREDI's home institution, the University of Passau
on September 20^th and 21^st 2021.