Collective Redress and Digital Fairness Conference
The Collective Redress and Digital Fairness Conference, organized by the University of Amsterdam with support from the Stichting Onderzoek Collectieve Actie, provides a forum to examine how collective redress can ensure effective judicial protection against Big Tech’s contested business practices.
The Collective Redress and Digital Fairness Conference, organized by the University of Amsterdam with support from the Stichting Onderzoek Collectieve Actie, provides a forum to examine how collective redress can ensure effective judicial protection against Big Tech’s contested business practices. This two-day event will feature keynote lectures, invited contributions, and selected academic papers addressing the effectiveness of remedies, normative foundations of collective redress, and its role in enforcing digital rights and EU digital law. The conference brings together leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers to bridge theoretical, doctrinal, and practical approaches to these pressing issues.
Event Details
- Wednesday 10 December: 14:00 – 18:30 (followed by drinks)
- Thursday 11 December: 09:00 – 12:30
- Location: University of Amsterdam, Roeterseilandcampus (De Brug)
Theme and Key Questions
The conference examines how collective redress can advance digital fairness across the EU’s rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. With keynote lectures by Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford) on privacy harms and collective redress, and Stefaan Voet (KU Leuven) on the challenges of collective redress in the digital economy, the programme addresses a wide spectrum of issues raised by scholars and practitioners. Contributions span diverse perspectives—procedural, substantive, theoretical, doctrinal, and empirical—at national, EU, and transnational levels.
The academic discussions are structured around three panels:
- The role and place of collective action – exploring democratic legitimacy, the relationship between philanthropy and public interest litigators, and strategic litigation on data protection and content moderation.
- Groups and representation – addressing the protection of minors, vulnerable groups, and collective claims under the GDPR, the Digital Markets Act, and the AI Act.
- Remedies and redress – focusing on damages quantification, the development of collective settlements across jurisdictions, and the prospects for redress of data-driven harms.
Together, these panels raise fundamental questions about the role of collective litigation in protecting digital rights, its effectiveness across jurisdictions, and its interaction with public enforcement and private law principles.
Click here to view the programme.