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Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell

European Law Institute (ELI) President; Professor of Commercial Law, University Carlos III of Madrid

Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid. Currently, Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, Rome, 2021-2022. Academic Visitor at University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College, 2022-2023. Chair of Excellence 2017-2018 at University of Oxford (Uc3m- Santander Program), affiliated to Harris Manchester College. Previously, James J. Coleman, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School; Visiting Professor at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford; Stanford Law School Fellow, TTLF, and Marie Curie Fellow at the ZERP of the University of Bremen, among other visiting professor positions and fellowships, at Columbia Law School, University of Washington, University of Tokyo or University College London. Arbitrator of Madrid Court of Arbitration. Member of ELI (European Law Institute) Council and Executive Committee. Member of the Expert Group of the European Commission on Liability and New Technologies, member of the Expert Group of the European Observatory of Platform Economy, and member of the EU Commission Expert Group on B2B Data Sharing. Member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law. Member of the expert group of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform for Online Dispute Resolution - UNCITRAL and Hong Kong Department of Justice. Expert of the UNIDROIT Study Group on the MAC Protocol of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests. Delegate of Spain to UNIDROIT for the adoption of the Protocol, delegate of Spain in Working Group VI of UNCITRAL on secured transactions and in Working Group IV on Electronic Commerce. Member of UNIDROIT Working Groups on Enforcement and Warehouse Receipts.

11:45-12:30

Tuesday 29 September Day Two Plenary Agenda

Panel 7: THE PLATFORM ECONOMY – Innovation, Growth, Accountability and Rights

  • How should we assess the platform economy’s impact on economic opportunity, innovation and fundamental rights alongside systemic risks and harms?
  • How have DSA obligations and platform investments in transparency, safety and content governance shaped user experience, democratic discourse and economic activity, and how does this interact with GDPR frameworks in practice?
  • How do platforms enable EU SMEs, creators and startups to scale cross-border, and how should simplification initiatives such as the Omnibuses and Digital Fairness Check take this into account in practice?
  • What governance models — including codes of conduct, multi-stakeholder initiatives and regulatory sandboxes — can best combine accountability, legal certainty and innovation at scale?