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McBride appointed as UK expert to the Futures Committee of CCBE

 31 Mar 2022

Pauline McBride has been appointed as UK expert to the Futures Committee of The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). The role of the committee is to examine the challenges to the European legal profession presented by a combination of increasing globalisation, advances in technology and the rise of the unregulated sector. The Committee also aims to promote legal innovation and support technological developments of the legal profession in accordance with its rules of professional conduct and core values.

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Hildebrandt speaks on the politics of ambiguity and the issues of proxies (22 March 2022)

 14 Mar 2022

In her talk, Mireille Hildebrandt will argue that what matters is not computable. However, it can be made computable, and in different ways. This difference in turn matters, it makes a difference for those who will suffer or enjoy the consequences. To make things computable developers need proxies, as computing systems cannot deal with the ambiguity of the languages we live in. Decisions on disambiguation and the choice of proxies have far-reaching implications, There is a politics in these design decisions that requires our keen attention. This is where transparency and agonistic debate are pertinent.

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