{"id":2877,"date":"2025-12-17T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pearl.novalaw.unl.pt\/?page_id=2877"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:38:38","slug":"call-for-papers-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pearl.novalaw.unl.pt\/en\/call-for-papers-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Workshop: Fundamental Rights Protection From<\/em>, With<\/em>, and By<\/em> Regulators<\/strong><\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]The promise of the regulatory state is deceptively simple: private market actors can provide for the public interest effectively. If they do not, public authorities \u2013 regulators \u2013 can still secure the public interest acting as its guarantors, and intervene when necessary to address market failures.<\/p>\n

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And yet, in Europe and elsewhere, the constitutional and political challenges of this blueprint have proven immense. The regulatory state both reshapes the boundaries between the three classic branches of government, and is shaped by constant tensions between risks of regulatory capture and regulatory overreach, between public and private power, and between technocracy and democracy. One topic, however, has remained comparatively under-explored until recently: the place of fundamental rights in the everyday work of regulators.<\/p>\n

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The 21st century\u2019s digital economy has increasingly led to regulators taking on responsibilities related to the protection of privacy, the regulation of online services and artificial intelligence. This creates new momentum for scholars to rediscover the place of individual fundamental rights in other policy sectors, where the emphasis tends to be on abstract public interests and technical decision-making \u2013 from energy to healthcare, banking, or food safety.<\/p>\n

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The question we propose to address is how fundamental rights can be protected from<\/em>, with<\/em>, or even by<\/em> administrative regulators<\/strong>. Overarching themes include how fundamental rights protection interacts with the multilayered structure of European regulatory networks, the politicization of regulatory action, pushes towards simplification\/deregulation, the perspective of marginalized communities, or even the limitations of the category of \u2018fundamental rights\u2019 to address the issues present in digital regulation. Other possible topics include:<\/p>\n

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