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Hildebrandt stresses the need to steer free from harm-approach in response to keynote of professor Nadya Purtova at the Beyond Data Protection Conference
On 22 September Professor Hildebrandt presented her reply to the keynote of Professor Nadya Purtova, during the international Beyond Data Protection Conference at Utrecht University (based on Purtova’s ERC project). Hildebrandt discussed the need to steer free from the harm-approach to fundamental rights impact assessments, reminding the audience that the Court of Justice of the European Union takes a violation-approach. To establish a violation we need not prove harm. Fundamental rights are part of international constitutional law, and the approach to assessing potential impact should not be framed on e.g. tort law (where harm caused is a condition) or on utilitarian ideology (based on the harm-principle and cost-benefit analyses). Whereas Anglo-American legal theory is ‘marinated’ in a utilitarian approach, European legal theory takes the violation of rights seriously as an independent criterion for fundamental rights impact assessments. Hildebrandt also recalled the fact that the GDPR protects not only data subjects, but - as stipulated in art. 1, 24, 25, 32 and 35 - requires that controllers foresee potential impact for natural persons.
... »Hildebrandt and Meessen gave a keynote and a talk at the FALL DAYS at the Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics in the Netherlands
Hildebrandt and Meessen gave a keynote and a talk during the FALL DAYS of the Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics (IPA) in the Netherlands. The focus will be on sustainable software for data- en code-driven systems, highlighting the impact of upstream design decisions that have normative effects on downstream deployment and end-users.
... »Final publication of the COHUBICOL Research Study on Text-Driven Law
Today, we are publishing the final version of the Research Study in Text-Driven Law.
... »Call for copyeditors and junior managing editors at CRCL
The Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL) is a diamond Open Access scientific journal. We are currently looking for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the domain of ‘law and technology’, who are native English speakers, willing to join the editorial team as:
... »Hildebrandt publishes paper on ‘Global competition and the convergence of AI Law’
The aforementioned paper by COHUBICOL’s Mireille Hildebrandt was published as a chapter in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law.
... »Hildebrandt to present keynote on Whiteboxing machine learning at CD-MAKE conference (Benevento, 1 September 2023)
Professor Mireille Hildebrandt will present a keynote on ‘Whiteboxing Machine Learning’ at the CD-MAKE conference in Benevento, Italy on Friday september 1st.
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