Taxing Data as an Instrument of Economic Digital Constitutionalism

Introduction

The Webinar will bring together Italian and international experts from different disciplines who will discuss the topic of taxation of the digital economy from a constitutional law perspective as well as the related legal policy proposals.

Program

Convenor: Angelo Golia

11:00-11:15 Opening

Welcome: Angelo Golia (Trento University)
Chair: Francisco de Abreu Duarte (European University Institute)

11:15-12:45 Session 1

11:15-12:00 –Taxing Data as an Instrument of Economic Digital Constitutionalism: An Introduction
Angelo Golia (Trento University)
Discussant: Anna Beckers (Maastricht University)

12:00-12:45 – Data Taxation and The Right to Science in The Digital Age
Jayson Lamchek (Deakin Law School)
Discussant: Thomas Streinz (New York University)

12:45-13:15 Break

13:15-15.30 Session 2 

13:15-14:00 – A Data Capital Tax in The Light of the Principle of Solidarity: The Case of Medical Research
Marta Fasan (Trento University)
Discussant: Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica Global School of Law)

14:00-14:45 – Automation as Privatisation: The Case for Digital Justice As A Successor Of Agrarian Justice
Jai Vipra (Independent Researcher)
Discussant: Ioannis Kampourakis (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

14:45-15:30 – The Territorial and Sovereign Preconditions for Taxing Data. The Transformation of EU Law Towards Wealth Redistribution and Social Justice? 
Francesca Paruzzo (Turin University)
Discussant: Jacopo Ratti (Milan State University)

15:30-16:15 Break

16:15-17:45 Session 3

16:15-17:00 – Defining the Goals of a Data Tax 
Amanda Parsons (University of Colorado) 
Discussant: Irma Mosquera Valderrama (Leiden University)

17:00-17:45 – Taxing Big Data When the Superpower Disagrees
Allison Christians (McGill University) and Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães (Antwerp University)
Discussant: Omri Marian (University of California, Irvine)

17:45-18:30 Wrap up, steps ahead

18:30 Closure

Engaged listeners: Mariana Avelar (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Arthur Bianco (Luxembourg University), Oluwatomiwa Ilori (Pretoria University), Lucas H. Muniz da Conceicao (Bocconi University), Aikaterini Pantazatou (Luxembourg University), Gunther Teubner (Goethe Frankfurt University), Kebene Wodajo (University of St.Gallen)

Scientific organization: Angelo Jr Golia

Information and Registration

Please fill the online registration form on the web page of the event to participate. Please join at 10:45 for 11.00 start.