LEX and FORUM VOLUME I /2025 – Conflict of Laws

The sweeping tempo of technological development and the accelerated transition to the digital realm are producing novel and complicated challenges for the legislation. Established authorized frameworks are more and more being examined inside the digital atmosphere, the place cutting-edge applied sciences — akin to digital platforms and synthetic intelligence — have come to play a decisive position in each social and financial exercise.

Though the European Union might not but have attained its full technological maturity, it stands on the forefront of confronting the authorized implications of the digital period. The Union’s legislative agenda seeks to keep up a fragile equilibrium between, on the one hand, selling innovation and technological growth, and, on the opposite, safeguarding the elemental rights of people whereas making certain transparency and accountability amongst digital service suppliers.

The areas most profoundly affected by the digital transformation of European legislation embody information safety — ruled primarily by Regulation (EU) 2016/679, generally often called the Normal Information Safety Regulation (GDPR); digital commerce and digital platforms facilitating cross-border transactions — regulated by Directive 2000/31/EC; cybersecurity; digital governance; and digital markets — considerably formed by Regulation (EU) 2022/1925. Inside these domains, a dense and complex physique of Rules, Directives, and legislative Acts has redefined the construction and operation of the web market.

Outstanding amongst these legislative devices are the Digital Providers Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), each designed to counter disinformation and improve transparency within the operation of digital platforms; the Digital Governance Act (DGA), which seeks to bolster the efficient and reliable governance of digital companies; the Information Act (DA), aimed toward facilitating information entry, administration, and reuse in revolutionary functions; and the Synthetic Intelligence Act (AIA), which establishes a complete regulatory framework to make sure the protected, lawful, and moral deployment of synthetic intelligence programs. Collectively, these devices have come to dominate modern European authorized discourse in regards to the digital transformation.

The seventeenth on-line convention of Lex&Discussion board, held on 27 February 2025, was dedicated to problems with explicit curiosity and appreciable complexity inside the area of legislation. This session was organized, on this event, in collaboration with Frederick College of the Republic of Cyprus.The convention was chaired by Professor Panagiotis Degleris of the co-organizing College, inside the framework of which the next displays of the invited audio system had been delivered: Theodoros Galanis, PhD, ‘The Digital Markets Act: Transient Overview and Implementation Challenges’; Efrosyni Siougle, PhD, Head of Advisory and Compliance on the Information Safety Authority, ‘The interplay of the GDPR with current EU legislative developments (DSA, DMA, DGA, DA, AIA)’, Ioannis Revolidis, Lecturer in Media, Communication & Expertise Legislation, Legislation Faculty, College of Malta, ‘The Strengthened 2022 Code of Observe on Disinformation: Continuities and Improvements in EU Digital Regulation’; Anastasia Kalantzi, PhD, Lawyer, ‘The Normal Information Safety Regulation as court docket proof within the digital age’, Maria Stylianidou, Assistant Professor, Legislation Faculty, Frederick College,‘The Safety of Whistleblowers within the Digital Age / The Modern Face of Governance’.

Because the Praefatio of the primary concern of the 12 months, we’ve got the good honor of presenting the speech-reflection of an unequalled scientific profession and educational ethos of the world-renowned worldwide legislation Professor, Mr. Symeon Symeonides on the scientific symposium organized in his honor as an educational farewell by the Willamette College Faculty of Legislation, in collaboration with the ‘Affiliation of American Legislation Colleges Part on Battle of Legal guidelines’, in Could 2024, on the subject of “Reflections from Fifty Years within the Conflicts Winery: An Immigrant’s Story”.

Within the case-law part, we current (a) The CJEU, 27.2.2025, Società Italiana Lastre/Agora, on asymmetrical alternative of court docket agreements (commented by Prof. D. Stamatiadis), (b) the home rulings: Piraeus Courtroom of Attraction 398/2024, on service to an organization with a registered workplace in Singapore (commented by A. Anthimos), Athens Courtroom of First Occasion instances 3150/2024 and 269/2025, on recognition of a closing (non-appealable) divorce judgment issued by a Swiss court docket (linked with the authorized opinion by Ass. Prof. Ok. Rokas), and Athens Courtroom of First Occasion 244/2025, on recognition of the res judicata impact of overseas court docket orders issued by a U.S. court docket inserting a legally incapacitated grownup beneath guardianship and appointing a conservator of the grownup’s property (commented by Ass. Prof. G.-A. Georgiades), and (c) the overseas Nationwide Courtroom Caselaw, Cour de Cassation, 2.4.2025, Pourvoi n. 23-11.456, on submission of a request for a preliminary ruling to the CJEU concerning whether or not a declare for damages arising from the abrupt termination of a business relationship is contractual or non-contractual in nature. (commented by E. Tsikrika), and Cassazione Civile, 10.7.2024, ??. 18445/2024, on willpower of the kid’s ‘ordinary residence’ in instances of worldwide baby abduction involving a baby of tender age. (commented by Decide I. Valmantonis).

The scientific part features a research by Prof. Efie Kinini (Univeristy of Athens) on “The limitation interval for a damages declare in instances of infringement of competitors guidelines. Reflections prompted by the CJEU judgment in Heureka and the Opinion of Advocate Normal Medina in Nissan” and a authorized opinion of Ass. Prof. Ok. Rokas (Aristotle College of Thessaloniki), on ‘Recognition of a overseas divorce judgment from a 3rd nation: the requirement in regards to the relevant legislation beneath Article 780 of the Greek Code of Civil Process’. It additionally options the ideas of Dr. Apostolos Anthimos, on ‘UK Third social gathering prices orders enforceable in Greece’, in addition to the significantly necessary in enforcement of overseas judgements proceedings Certificates of enforceability beneath Article 53 of the Brussels I bis Regulation, edited by Judje A.  Kargopoulos.. The difficulty concludes with the common quarterly assessment of the CJEU’s case-law, masking the interval January-March 2025, by Dr. A. Anthimos.

Lex&Discussion board renews its scientific appointment with its readers for the subsequent 18th concern, with the central subject of ‘The EU Accession to the ECHR – Procedural Hurdles and Prospects Earlier than the ECtHR -‘.

                                                                                    Prof. Paris Arvanitakis