The 7th Petar Šarčević Conference
Consumer Protection in Transition: Digital Transformation and Better Enforcement

23 - 25 September 2021, Opatija, Croatia | ONLINE/ONSITE

Organizers:	University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
	Hanns Seidel Foundation
	Croatian Comparative Law Association

DAY 1: Thursday, 23 September 2021

13:00-13:30	Registration
13:30-14:00	Opening speeches
	Vesna Crnić-Grotić Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia
	Vesna Tomljenović President of the Croatian Comparative Law Association
	Klaus Fiesinger Regional Director for South-East Europe, Hanns Seidel Foundation
	Aleksandra Markić Boban Head of the Project Office Zagreb, Hanns Seidel Foundation
	Nataša Mikuš Žigman State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia

Session 1 (in Croatian) Chair: Jakša Barbić Transition of Croatian Consumer Law & Enforcement
14:00-14:20	Goranka Barać – Ručević Judge at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia "Ex officio Control of Unfair Contract Terms in the Croatian Case Law
14:20-14:40	Marina Veljak Judge at the High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia “The First Croatian Collective Redress Proceeding: Lessons and Challenges”
14:40-15:00	Paula Poretti Associate Professor & Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law, i prodekanica Pravnog fakulteta Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia “Towards New Regulation of Collective Redress Mechanism in Croatia”
15:00-15:20	Iva Ivanišević Mostovac Judge at the Municipal Court in Rijeka “Consumers, by Definition, Include Us All: Humans and their Human Rights”
15:20-15:40	Short Break

Session 2 (in Croatian) Chair: Vlatka Butorac Malnar
15:40-16:00	Silvija Petrić Professor (ret.), Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia “Croatian Regulation of Conformity of Goods: Defective or Effective?”
16:00-16:20	Hrvoje Pauković Director of the Croatian Insurance Bureau “Rethinking Consumer Protection in Insurance Sector”
16:20-16:40	Ana Pošćić Associate Professor, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia “The ‘Lucky Consumer’ in the Games of Fortune”
16:40-17:00	Danijela Vrbljanac Assistant Professor, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia “International Jurisdiction for Consumer Disputes: A Cloak of Protection”
17:00-17:30	Question and discussion time

 

DAY 2: Friday, 24 September 2021

Session 3 Chair: Emilia Mišćenić Challenges to Consumer Law in Digital Age
08:30-09:00	Registration
	Keynote Speakers
09:00-09:30	Geraint Howells Professor & Executive Dean, College of Business, Public Policy and Law, National University of Galway, Ireland “Online Platforms and Consumer Protection”
09:30-10:00	Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland & European University Institute, Florence, Italy “Consumer Empowerment through Legal Tech”
10:00-10:30	Jürgen Basedow Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany & former chairman of the German Monopolies Commission “Towards a Digital Markets Act of the European Union”
10:30-11:00	Christian Twigg-Flesner Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Warwick, United Kingdom “Options for New Liability Systems for Digital Consumer Tansactions - Legal Disruption or Timely Modernisation?"
11:00-11:20	Short Break
Session 4 Chair: Ivana Kunda
11:20-11:40	Keynote Speaker Pascal Pichonnaz Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland & Vice-President & Elected President of the European Law Institute, Vienna, Austria “AI to Adjudicate Small Claims for Consumers: Dream or Nightmare?”
11:40-12:00	Mateja Đurović Reader in Contract and Commercial Law, King's College London, United Kingdom “The Relevance and Regulation of the Online Reviews and the Digital Market: The Case of New European Directive (EU) 2019/2161”
12:00-12:20	Jacolien Barnard Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa Emilia Mišćenić Associate Professor, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia "The Achievement of Sustainable Development for Consumers in the Digital Market: Fact or Fiction?"
12:20-13:00	Question and discussion time
13:00-14:00	Lunch

Session 5 Chair: Damjan Mozina
14:00-14:20	Elise Poillot Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg “Who's Who? Desperately Seeking For a Definition of Traders and Consumers in Digital Surrounding”
14:20-14:40	Martin Schmidt-Kessel Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bayreuth, Germany “Datification in Consumer Contractual Relations”
14:40-15:00	Ivana Kunda Professor, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia “Consumer Personal Data Rights Online: Is the Queen’s Gambit the Right Opening?”
15:00-15:20	Vlatka Butorac Malnar Associate Professor, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia “The Role of Digital Platforms as Gateways for Businesses and Consumers”
15:20-16:00	Question and discussion time

 

DAY 3: Saturday, 25 September 2021

Session 6 Chair: Paula Poretti Better Enforcement of Consumer Law
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:30	Keynote Speaker Vesna Tomljenović Judge at the General Court, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg Nicola Chesaites Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP "EU Collective Redress at the Crossroad"
09:30-09:50	Marko Ilešič Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg “Intellectual Property Rights and Consumers’ Interests in Digital Surroundings”
09:50-10:10	Maciej Szpunar First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg “The Idea of Consent in the EU Data Protection Law“
10:10-11:00	Short Break
Session 7 Chair: Emilia Mišćenić
11:00-11:20	Richard Alderman Professor Emeritus, University of Houston Law Centre, United States “The Big Problem With Enforcement of Consumer Rights - Arbitration”
11:20-11:40	Eleni Kaprou Lecturer in Commercial Law, Brunel Law School London, United Kingdom ”Better Enforcement of Consumer Rights”
11:40-12:00	Damjan Možina Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia “Enforcement of Consumer Rights in Crisis”
12:00-12:30	Question and discussion time
12:30-13:00	Emilia Mišćenić Closing Address