We are very pleased that the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal has offered to host the 2017 BILETA Conference; it is a crucial time to strengthen and develop research links across Europe.

The Law School of the University of Minho will be hosting the BILETA Annual Conference, held from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st of April 2017. The University is located in Braga, Portugal and offers a law degree and several postgraduate courses, including a Masters Course in Law and Informatics and a LL.M. in European and Transglobal Business Law.

The theme of the conference is: International perspectives on emerging challenges in Law, Technology and Education.

We are extremely pleased to announce our keynote speakers:

• Professor Joe Cannataci: UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy

• Professor Jose-Luis Pinar: Professor of Administrative Law, CEU University of Madrid. Former Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (2002-2007). Former Vice-Chairman of the European Group of Data Protection Commissioners (Art. 29 Working Party Data Protection) (2003-2007)

• Professor Burkhard Schafer: Professor of Computational Legal Theory, The University of Edinburgh

PhD students will again be able to compete for the Google PhD award and the BILETA PhD prize, specific details to follow. In order to enter, full papers need to be submitted by March 31st 2017.