The UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and the ELI Digital Law SIG are pleased to invite you to the next installment in a series of transatlantic discussions on pressing issues in the area of consumer protection law.

Experts and advocates widely view social media as a growing public-health problem. This awareness has prompted a variety of legal and policy remedies, including (in part) outright social media bans for youth in some countries.

Product liability frameworks offer another set of tools for combatting the rise of social media addiction, and in the US a wave of litigation against social media platforms is underway. In March 2026, a California jury delivered a landmark verdict, finding Meta and Google’s YouTube liable for the negligent design of their platforms.

The conversation will be led by:

• Andre Mura (Gibbs Mura)
• Amanda Shanor (University of Pennsylvania)
• Christiane Wendehorst (University of Vienna, ELI Scientific Director)
• Christian Twigg-Flesner (University of Warwick, ELI Member).

Registration here.