The three day ICON-S conference in Madrid gathered more than 2000 scholars from all around the world. SGEL researchers co-convened panels and presented their projects on transnational climate litigation, the political economy of EU equality law, EU abortion law, competition law and the reproduction of hierarchies, the rule of law crisis, and the transformation of markets in the digital age.

Speakers tackled some of the following questions:

• How should we understand and possibly re-define the boundaries of economic law?
• How could private multinational actors be held accountable for human rights violations and environmental degradation?
• Can climate strategic litigation truly address climate change?
• How does law structure the material conditions underpinning social reproduction, and what does that mean for gender-based and other forms of inequalities?  
• What are the competing ways of (re) imagining global economic law that address current unequal power dynamics in sectors such as the digital economy or energy?

SGEL Panel, 9 July 2024

Giacomo Tagiuri, Competing Visions for a Fairer Digital Economy in EU Law

Christina Eckes, European Law as an Obstacle to and Facilitator of National Climate Action

Prachi Agarwal, Unraveling Hierarchies in Markets: Reflections on Competition Law

Ivana Isailović, Social Reproduction, Law and Inequalities

Nicky Touw, Redefining the Role of Access to Internal Information in the Regulation of Corporate Human Rights Violations