Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe 2025

About the conference     
Following the format of PLSC in the United States, 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 indeed many attendees do not present a paper.

Our goal is to improve and provide support for in-progress scholarship on a wide variety of issues and topics that touch upon privacy in its broadest interpretation. As such, we very much welcome submissions from different (sub)disciplines, taking alternative angles to privacy and data governance more broadly. For further information, please see our event webpage.

Conference speakers  
To be determined. The Call for Abstracts closed in May 2025. Authors whose abstracts have been selected will be informed on 20 June 2025. Full papers are due by 1 October 2025.

Target audience 
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.

Level – Specialization level 

Specialization level: usually more than 3 years of practical experience in the relevant field; a high level of knowledge of the relevant field is present for participation. 
 

Remote attendance

Unfortunately, remote attendance is not available for this conference

Do you have any questions? 
We will gladly answer them. 
E-mail: events@law.leidenuniv.nl 
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 8666 

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The conference will take place at Leiden Law School on 23rd October (12:30 – 18:30) and 24th October 2025 (9:30 – 17:00). The full schedule will be released in September.

Standard: € 175,-

Students and NGOs*: € 95,-
including lunch on 24 October 2025 and coffee breaks on both days. Kindly let us know your dietary requirements by October 9th. 
 
*Master’s students, PhD students, and members of NGOs are eligible to apply for a limited number of registration fee reductions. 

To be considered, applicants must submit a brief motivation explaining why they should receive the discount, along with proof of their current student/NGO status. 

Applications can be submitted via email to: events@law.leidenuniv.nl