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The Institute of Law and Economics in collaboration with The Hadar Jabotinsky Center is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on AI, Sustainability, and Corporate Accountability. Following the success of our 2025 Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Symposium, this second edition will explore the critical intersection between artificial intelligence governance and corporate sustainability obligations.

The European Union’s twin transformation agenda has produced landmark regulatory frameworks including the AI Act (Reg. (EU) 2024/1689) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (“CS3D”; Dir. (EU) 2024/1760), imposing simultaneous compliance requirements on organizations. These concurrent obligations create critical operational challenges: harmonizing risk assessment methodologies, managing potentially conflicting disclosure requirements, and integrating due diligence processes across digital and sustainability domains.

This symposium addresses urgent questions as the EU intensively reconsiders its position on both AI liability and the scope of the CS3D, providing a unique opportunity to share knowledge accumulated in academic research and to propose innovative regulatory approaches. We invite submissions that shed light on the intersection of AI governance and sustainability frameworks, including but not limited to:

• Compliance integration challenges: How organizations can harmonize AI risk assessment with sustainability due diligence
• Regulatory tensions: Identifying and resolving conflicts between the AI Act and CS3D (or CSRD) requirements
• Due diligence methodologies: Best practices for integrated digital and environmental risk assessment
• Disclosure frameworks: Managing overlapping reporting obligations across AI and sustainability domains
• Supply chain governance: AI applications in sustainability monitoring and their regulatory implications
• Liability and accountability mechanisms: Corporate responsibility in AI-enabled sustainability initiatives

The symposium is open to any methodology (e.g. doctrinal work, empirical analysis, or experiments) and welcomes interdisciplinary work, as well as more traditional perspectives. We encourage submissions from academic researchers, practitioners, regulatory authorities, and corporate compliance officers. The goal of the symposium is to bring together scholars, practitioners, and interested parties to explore the implications of managing dual compliance requirements under the EU’s digital and sustainability transformation agenda.

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