PLSC Europe is a paper workshop conference, just like PLSC in the United States, 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 sector). 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.
News
Three papers recognised for the Top Policy Provocations at PLSC Europe 2025
November 4, 2026
The Top Policy Provocation of the 2026 edition of PLSC Europe, hosted by KU Leuven goes to:
- “Commoning (In)visibilities? On Datafication and Civil Society Representation in the EU’s Digital Acquis” by Laurens Naudts
- “Empathy in Immigration Surveillance and the Creation of Second-Class Data Subjects” by Antoni Napieralski
- “Opt-Out as Conditional Privilege: The EHDS Secondary Use Architecture, Architectural Discrimination, and the Fourth Level Digital Divide” by Cong Yao
Congratulations!
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The 2027 edition of PLSC Europe will take place on 16-17 September 2027 in London
November 4, 2026
Next year, PLSC Europe will be hosted at University College London (UCL), organised in collaboration with London School of Economics (LSE) and the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). The event will take place on the 16th and 17th of September.
We look forward to next year’s edition, and we hope to see many of you there! More details will follow.
PLSC Europe 2025 Top Policy Provocations @CPDP
May 6, 2026
Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) Europe is full of fresh, timely ideas, and we want to support these ideas gaining visibility in front of policymakers. Top Policy Provocations are papers that are most likely to make policymakers think, and potentially, make them act. Our CPDP panel assembles the authors of the three Top Policy Provocation selected at the 2025 edition of PLSC Europe, hosted by the University of Leiden in fall last year:
- “Should Data Protection Authorities enforce the AI Act? Lessons from EU-wide enforcement data”, by Joanna Mazur,Claudio Novelli & Zuzanna Choińska
- “Beyond Individual Privacy: A Layered Diagnostic Model for Analyzing Genetic Data Governance”, by Ruoxin Su
- “Beyond Schrems: The Unresolved Tensions Between US Government Access and the GDPR”, by Dave Michels, Ian Walden, Christopher Millard and Ulrich Wuermeling
The authors’ presentation of their research will be followed by reflections from a policy practitioner and a discussion with the audience.
PLSC Europe 2026: Call for Abstracts
March 25, 2026
The call for abstracts for the Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe (PLSC-E) is open until May 15th. PLSC Europe is a conference for stimulating work in progress. Discussants, rather than authors, kick off and lead a conversation on a paper. There are no panels or presentations by the authors. 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 many attendees do not present a paper. The 2026 edition will take place at KU Leuven on 29th and 30th October. More information on the event and the call for abstracts can be accessed here.