Call for Abstracts

Judicial protection and enforcement of "Green" rights in the EU 

Annual workshop of the Jean Monnet Module - 'Consumer and Market Law in the European Circular Economy'

Within the framework of the Jean Monnet Module "CoME CircLE" (2023-2026), the University of Udine (Italy) organizes the 19th Summer School on 'Consumer and Market Law in the European Circular Economy', in cooperation with a consortium of European universities, now including University of Essex (UK), Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara (Romania), East Anglia University (UK), University of Rijeka (Croatia), University of Belgrade (Serbia) and University of Szeged (Hungary).

This year, the Summer School will host a workshop on "Judicial protection and enforcement of "green" rights in the EU".

The workshop intends to focus on the transition of the European Circular Economy from a purely regulatory framework into a sphere of actionable rights and obligations. As the EU introduces complex obligations (such as the right to repair, stricter eco-design requirements, and bans on greenwashing), it is particularly important to understand how such mandates are enforced. We invite scholars to analyze how consumers, NGOs, and other entities can seek redress when circularity standards are breached, looking in particular at the interplay between public enforcement (by authorities) and private enforcement (through litigation) and questioning whether the current EU procedural framework is robust enough to support the ambitious goals of the Green Deal.

Contributions may explore, in particular but not exclusively, the subjective right to repair, its justiciability and available remedies; strategic – environmental - litigation, in particular against greenwashing; the evolution of product liability, after "refurbishment" or "remanufacturing"; access to justice and issues of legal standing in environmental matters; administrative and judicial enforcement of EU environmental standards, including the role of national authorities; alternative dispute resolution.

The workshop will host experts and professors from partner Universities and will also include up to four external participants, to be selected through this Call for abstracts by the Scientific Committee.

Abstracts of up to 1000 words should be submitted by 30 April 2026, 12.00 pm GMT at the e-mail address ip.europeanlaw.uniud@gmail.com, together with a short CV (One page maximum). Submission of abstracts is open to all scholars interested, but post-graduate students, Ph.D. candidates and young researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.

The selected participants will be notified by 15 May 2026 and will have to provide the organisers with an outline of their contributions by 30 June 2026. The workshop will be held at the University of Udine on 14 July 2026. The selected speakers will not have to pay any participation fee.

The papers will then be published after peer review.

Should you have any question, please contact ip.europeanlaw.uniud@gmail.com.