Superintelligent Contracts and the Future of the Single Market

SUPERINTELLIGENT CONTRACTS AND THE FUTURE OF THE SINGLE MARKET

The Doctoral School of Law of the University of Luxembourg cordially invites you to the lecture "Superintelligent Contracts and the Future of the Single Market" by Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein

About the event:
As contracting agents evolve from simple self-executing code toward autonomous, learning-capable systems, contract law faces a fundamental challenge: regulating agreements formed and enforced not by humans but by artificial agents. This lecture traces an escalation from basic smart contracts through agentic contracting to a speculative frontier of "superintelligent contracts" capable of anticipating market conditions and adapting terms autonomously. It examines how such systems strain core doctrines of offer, acceptance, and consent, situating the analysis within ongoing efforts such as the UNCITRAL Model Law on Automated Contracting and the European Law Institute's work on algorithmic and AI-driven agreements. The lecture closes by considering the effects of automated contracting on the European Single Market, and what regulatory strategies — from disclosure duties to structural limits on autonomous agency — such developments require.

Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein holds the Chair of Innovation and Law at the University of Vienna. Previously, he held a Chair at Philipps-Universität Marburg and has been the founding director of the Institute for the Law of Digitalisation (IRDi). His research focuses on corporate and capital markets law, crypto-asset regulation (MiCAR), smart contracts, and AI contracting, and he serves on the European Commission's expert group on AI contracting.

A light lunch will be served at 12.30 before the lecture starts.

Venue :
University of Luxembourg
Campus Kirchberg - Weicker Building
Room B001 (ground floor)
4, rue Alphonse Weicker, L-2721 Luxembourg
Language :
English

This lecture is supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund PRIDE23/18689571/GREITMA.

As places are limited and demand is high, we kindly ask you to register only if you are able to attend. In the event that you can no longer attend, please cancel your registration as soon as possible to allow another participant to take your place.