Just like PLSC in the United States, PLSC-Europe is a paper workshop conference. 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 fi eld. 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.

As a paper workshop conference, authors are free to submit a working paper (draft, in progress) for which they seek constructive feedback and suggestions for improvement/evolution. There are no formal requirements for the paper. The paper is then discussed by the discussant and audience, and authors and participants should leave the session inspired by the discussion and with insights that will help them in their own work.

The boundaries of privacy as a discipline are dynamic and contested. Although PLSC-Europe emphasises the law of privacy, concepts from other fi elds play critical roles in our understanding of privacy and in shaping the law. For example, the following topics have received signifi cant attention at previous PLSCs: fundamental rights, algorithmic governance and discrimination, police practices such as predictive policing, political/social/cultural/technical dimensions of data-intensive technologies, and privacy’s unique importance to marginalised populations, among many more.

We are dedicated to incubating scholarship that examines the intersections of technology, law, and policy and its ability to dismantle–or entrench–social hierarchies of all kinds.

Notification of accepted papers took place on June 20, 2025.

Please register at the website of Leiden Law Academy.

Registration fees are as follows:
● Standard: € 175
● Students/NGO’s: € 95

For visa -related questions, please contact us at: events@law.leidenuniv.nl

The conference will take place at Leiden Law School on 23rd October (12:30 – 18:30) and 24th October 2025 (9:30 – 17:00). See the full PLSCE 2025 programme. 

PLSC-Europe will be funded through institutional funds and registration fees only (standard: € 175, students/NGO’s: € 95). We will not seek corporate sponsorship for the conference.

The conference will be held on 23-24 October 2025 at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building (KOG), Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES Leiden, the Netherlands. The conference starts at 12:30 on the 23rd and ends at 17:00 on the 24th.

• Abstracts due: 12 May 2025 / Deadline extended to 19 May 2025 (PLSC Europe 2025 Abstract Submission Link) 
• Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2025
• Papers due: 1 October 2025
• PLSC-Europe 2025: 23 October (from 12:30) and 24 October 2025

• Jef Ausloos, University of Amsterdam
• Rocco Bellanova, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Franziska Boehm, FIZ Karlsruhe
• Anna Buchta, European Data Protection Supervisor
• Damian Clifford, Australian National University
• Jennifer Cobbe, University of Cambridge
• Ignacio Cofone, Oxford University 
• Mark David Cole, University of Luxembourg
• Bart Custers, Leiden University
• Laura Drechsler, KU Leuven
• David Erdos, University of Cambridge
• Marta Cantero Gamito, University of Tartu
• Gloria González Fuster, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Mateusz Grochowski, Tulane University Law School
• Woodrow Hartzog, Boston University School of Law
• Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
• Kristina Irion, University of Amsterdam
• Margot Kaminski, University of Colorado Boulder
• Eleni Kosta, Tilburg University
• Maxime Lassalle, L’Université de Bourgogne Europe
• Eva Lievens, Ghent University
• Orla Lynskey, UCL
• Joanna Mazur, University of Warsaw
• Alessandro Mantelero, Politecnico di Torino
• Nóra Ní Loideáin, University of London
• Nadya Purtova, Utrecht University
• Giorgio Resta, Roma 3 University
• Neil Richards, Washington University in St.Louis
• Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Utrecht University
• Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna
• Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Joris van Hoboken, University of Amsterdam
• Simone van der Hof, Leiden University
• Bart van der Sloot, Tilburg University 
• Ari Ezra Waldman, University of California, Irvine School of Law
• Monika Zalnieriute, Vilnius University Faculty of Law 
• Gerrit-Jan Zwenne, Leiden University