Events

Highlights/ Past Events

• PhD Defense: On 20 September 2023, Shanya Ruhela, ERC-REVEAL team member defended her PhD thesis titled “Multi-level Banking Regulatory Landscape: Crisis & Opportunities to Lobby for Trade Associations”. The link to Dr. Ruhela’s PhD dissertation: https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/files/78541438/Ruhela_Multi-level_20-09-2023.pdf

• International Workshop on “Data Governance in Banking and Finance: What Role for the Industry?” held on 26 April 2023 as an online only event. TILT and TILEC organized a half-day international workshop on data governance in the financial industry. This workshop brought together academics, practitioners, and policymakers for a discussion of the role of private standard-setting bodies in financial data governance. The workshop aimed to identify and assess existing and emerging governance frameworks for financial data and in particular the role the industry is assuming in those frameworks. This workshop was organized against the backdrop of the ongoing technological transformation of the financial industry and seeks to inform current discussions about its policy implications.

  Participants in this workshop were invited to consider private standard-setting bodies’ growing interest in financial data governance as a strategy of organizational resilience. Contributions to the workshop reflected on questions, such as how did the emergence of the regulatory framework for financial markets contribute to private standard-setting bodies’ growing involvement with data governance? How do such bodies seek to influence data governance frameworks and are they directly involved in such frameworks? How (if at all) are private standard-setting bodies’ governance frameworks shaped by data governance frameworks? How do technological and commercial consideration factor into data governance strategies adopted by private standard-setting bodies? Are the emerging data governance frameworks adequate to address potential challenges that could arise as the technology endorsed by private standard-setting bodies becomes the focal point of the technological infrastructure of the market?

  For details on Program and Workshop Access, visit this Tilburg University webpage.

• International Workshop on ‘The Historical Evolution of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Legitimacy Strategies and Dynamics’, held on 23rd November 2022 at Tilburg University.

• Seminar on ‘Standardization: Access, Expertise,and Good Governance’ on 29 June 2022 at Tilburg University. On the occasion of Prof. Kees Stuurman’s farewell, TILT organised a seminar on policy and legal issues in standardization. The seminar aimed to gather a diverse set of academics, policymakers and experts in standard-setting to discuss a number of legitimacy- and diversity-related issues, in particular access, expertise, and governance of standardization in Europe. From the REVEAL team, Shanya Ruhela, and Prof. Delimatsis served as co-organisers of the seminar.

• International Conference on ‘The Evolution of Transnational Private Rule-Makers: Understanding Drivers and Dynamics’ - held on 03-04 December 2020 at Tilburg University.

• Workshop on ‘Resilience of Private Collective Action in Finance and Manufacturing: Theoretical Challenges’ - held on November 05, 2019.

Past Participation

• Bijlmakers, S. (2022, June). A Case study: Social Corporate Responsibility. Presented at ‘Standardization: Access, Expertise,and Good Governance’ on 29 June 2022 at Tilburg University.

• Verghese, Z.G. (2023, November). To Antipolis, My Sisters!, coauthored by Dr. Stephanie Bijlmakers and Prof. Panos Delimatsis, at International Workshop on ‘The Historical Evolution of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Legitimacy Strategies and Dynamics’, held on 23rd November 2022 at Tilburg University.

• Ruhela, S. (2021, June). Incentives for Lobbying at Transnational Level: A Case Study of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Paper presented at the Competition Law and Economics European Network (CLEEN) Workshop 2021, Centre for Competition Policy.

• Delimatsis, P. (2020, February). The Resilience of Voluntary Economic Activism – Lessons from the Great Recession. Paper presented at the 2020 American Society of International Law - International Economic Law Interest Group (2020 ASIL IEcLIG) Biennial Conference: Designing International Economic Law: Challenges and Opportunities, The University of Miami School of Law.

• Partiti, E. (2019, November). ‘Elusive after all. How transnational private regulation escapes public influence’. Paper presented at the panel on ‘Examining private actors as regulatory authorities’ at the TUM School of Governance, Center for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Studies’ Emerging Scholars’ Workshop on Power Sharing or Power Shifts? Examining the role of public-private interactions in global governance, TUM School of Governance, München/ Munich.

• Bijlmakers, S. (2019, July). Global Regulatory Governance of Goods and Standard setting Bodies: The Impact of Crisis Events. Panel chaired at the International Conference on Global Regulatory Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Bijlmakers, S. (2019, July). Resilience in the Face of Crisis: The Case of GlobalG.A.P., the Forest Stewardship Council and Fairtrade International. Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Regulatory Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Borowicz, K. (2019, July). Lobbying in Face of Crises: The Case of Financial Standards. Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Regulatory Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Partiti, E. (2019, July). Taming or Enabling Private Rule makers? Assessing Resilience of Transnational Standardsetters. Panel chaired at the International Conference on Global Regulatory Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Partiti, E. (2019, July). The Performativity of Private Rule making. Management System Standards as Source of Power of Standardising Bodies. Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Regulatory Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

  Transnational private regulation has emerged and flourished in domains traditionally associated to public authority. Polycentric and de-centred conceptualisation of regulatory governance identity a margin for the public steering of private regimes, including via proceduralisation. This paper illustrates a few instances where private regulators have anticipated public intervention, instrumentally reacted to forms of indirect control, and continued their assertion of regulatory functions as undisturbed from public authority as possible. This contribution aims at locating the source of elusiveness into the considerable resourcefulness enjoyed by transnational private regulators. In particular, rapidity of standard-setting, extreme organisational flexibility and continuous learning are of paramount importance to informally pre-empt public regulation and defuse demands for reform from public and private stakeholders. In a similar manner, setting standards which structure economic activity in a manner which is congenial to the preference of private interests for light-touch rules, while signalling nonetheless effective regulatory competences, confers an influence in the regulation of markets and market-related activities which is almost impossible to harness by public authority.

• Verghese, Z.G. (2019, July). Hearing above the din in the standards setting space in the ICT Domain the role of Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs). Presentation at the International Conference on Global Regulatory Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Borowicz, K. (2019, June). Contracts as regulation: the ISDA Master Agreement. Paper presented at the Contract Law panel at National Business Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley School of Law, University of California.

• Ruhela, S. (2019, May). The Resilience of Standard - Setting Bodies in Banking: The Case Study of Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Presented at the ‘Investment, Banking and Antitrust Session’ at 8th SIEL PEPA Conference, King’s College London.

  REVEAL member, Shanya Ruhela (Ph.D. Researcher) presented her work-in-progress at the 8th Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL), held in London on May 30-31, 2019. Her presentation was on understanding the resilience of standard setting bodies in banking by undertaking a case study of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Committee”).

  The Committee is a self-enforcing institution, which promulgates minimum banking standards at an international level. These standards have no legal, binding or coercive force mandating compliance. Her work attempts to decipher the changes that occurred in standard-setting process of the Committee as a result of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which ultimately led to negotiation and adoption of a new set of standards (Basel III). Resilience is the capacity to experience shocks while retaining identity. The overarching aim of her research is to identify the key strategies for resilience of non-state actors or private standard-setting bodies by examining the evolution of standard-setting process by the Committee.

• Verghese, Z.G. (2019, April). Knowledge Transfer in the ICT Domain in the EU:ETSI’s role in being a Beacon. Presentation at the ‘Technical standardisation and STS’ session at the 18th Annual STS Conference Graz 2019 - Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

• Borowicz, K. (2019, March). Participant at the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, The French Treasury, Paris, France.

• Delimatsis, P. (2019, March). Corraporteur for Panel on ‘Threats to Cross-Border Banking: Resolution and Brexit’ at the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, The French Treasury, Paris, France.

• Partiti, E. (2018, November). Transnational Private Environmental Regulation. Speaker at the Roundtable co-organized by Law and Justice Across Borders/ACELG/ACES - ‘The EU as a global environmental regulator - extraterritoriality, transnational effects and legitimacy’. Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• Delimatsis, P. (2018, November). The Future of Standardization Law. Speaker at the World Standards Cooperation (WSC), Academic Roundtable 2018: Development of an Agenda for International Standardization Research, World Standards Cooperation 2018, organized by Reinhard Weissinger, ISO, and Prof. Henk de Vries, RSM, Erasmus University Rotterdam and hosted by China University of Metrology, Hangzhou, China.

• Partiti, E. (2018, November). Global convergence through standards and private actors? EU and the transnational regulation of responsible business conduct. Speaker for the session on ‘Convergence: Deeper, wider or lower (I)?’ at the ‘Modelling convergence of the EU with the world: taking, receiving and becoming EU law’ workshop. The City Law School, City University of London.