University of Silesia in Katowice

On the eve of the XXXI FIDE Congress in Katowice, on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia will host the Young FIDE Seminar.

The Young FIDE Seminar brings together junior EU law scholars, PhD students and practitioners and gives room to discuss the three topics of the main FIDE Congress with the eminent EU law professors and with the peers.

The topics discussed during the XXXI FIDE Congress are:

1. EU Emergency Law
2. EU Digital Economy: general framework (DSA/DMA) and specialised regimes
3. Energy solidarity and energy security – from green transition to the EU crisis management

Please note that participation in the Young FIDE Seminar does not require registration for the FIDE Congress, schedulded for 29-31 May 2025.

Vice versa, we kindly ask registrants of the XXXI FIDE Congress (29-31 May 2025) who would like to attend also the Young FIDE Seminar to notify us by sending an email to the address specified below.

Registration for Young FIDE: young.fide@us.edu.pl

We are pleased to present the list of experts speaking at Young FIDE. Their professional experience and vast layers of knowledge are sure to make an extremely important contribution to the event:

• prof. Eleanor Sharpston KC – Lawyer, academic and former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union from 2006 to 2020,
• prof. Joseph H.H. Weiler – Professor at NYU School of Law and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He also served as President of the European University Institute in Florence,
• prof. Michal Bobek – Visiting Professor at the Institute for European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna, ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 2013-2015, Advocate General at the Court of Justice from 2015 to 2021,
• prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro – Advocate General at the Court of Justice from 2003 to 2009. After completing his term, he was a professor at the European University Institute in Florence.

As part of the Young FIDE Seminar, we have also the great pleasure of announcing the list of speakers who will appear at the event. The speakers’ presentations will be compatible with the topics of the three pillars of the FIDE Congress.

Topic I: EU Emergency Law

• Béla Strausss, PhD Candidate, European University Institute in Florence, “The EU executive as an emergency actor: framework & practice”
• Claudia Cinnirella, Post-doc researcher in EU Law, University of Catania, “For Better or Worse? The EU Court of Justice’s Interpretation in Times of Emergencies”
• Guido Bellenghi, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University, “Is ‘EU Emergency Law’ Really Emergency Law?”

Topic II: EU Digital Economy: general framework (DSA/DMA) and specialised regimes

• Anna Vicinanza, PhD Candidate, University of Bologna, “Enforcing digital platform regulation: Challenges for coordination and consistency in fighting against harmful content online”
• Natan Wąśniowski, PhD Candidate, University of Warsaw, “The Walking Dead of Digital Competition Law: Article 14 DMA and the Illumina/Grail Fallout”
• Thitinan Ngamsanguan, PhD Candidate, University of Exeter, “Algorithmic Manipulation and Behavioural Exploitation in EU: A Critical Perspective on the DSA”

Topic III: Energy solidarity and energy security – from green transition to the EU’s crisis management

• Måns Dunfjäll, PhD Candidate, University of Copenhagen, “Corporate Governance In EU Energy Companies: Balancing Corporate Goals With The Green Transition Under EU Law”
• Elise Guiot, PhD Candidate, University of Padua, “Solidarity between generations as a legal principle to achieve the green transition”
• Tom Buytaert, PhD Candidate, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, “The principle of energy solidarity and national support measures in times of energy crisis”

In attached file you can find full FIDE 2025 PROGRAM

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