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Call for Abstracts CRCL 2023 Conference: Computational ‘Law’ on Edge

 3 Mar 2023

The 2nd international CRCL: Computational ‘law’ on Edge conference organised by COHUBICOL in collaboration with CRCL has launched its 2023 Call for Abstracts. We seek in-depth analyses that address both the potential and the challenges of computational ‘law’. We are seeking internal critiques in both law and CS, to ensure a grounded conversation across disciplinary boundaries. In line with the ethos of the COHUBICOL project, we particularly welcome analyses that take a normative position as to adherence to key rule of law ‘requirements’, notably concerning (1) the checks and balances between the powers of the state, (2) practical and effective enjoyment of human rights and (3) resilience against instrumentalization against big players, whether public or private. Before submitting, we advise checking out the conference ethos and visiting the COHUBICOL and CRCL websites to check the scope of the domain.

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Hildebrandt presents at Women in Data Science conference in Maastricht (7 March 2023)

 3 Mar 2023

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will give a presentation on the 7th of March 2023 at the fourth edition of the Women in Data Science (WiDS) 2023 Conference in Maastricht. This technical conference is organised by the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University and will feature contributions from women working in data science, AI and related technical fields. The abstract of Prof. Hildebrandt’s presentation entitled ‘A Typology of Legal Technologies: the Challenge of Legal Protection by Design’ reads:

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Gori teaches “On ethics, code and law” at Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND Training week (28 Feb 2023)

 1 Mar 2023

Postdoctoral researcher Gianmarco Gori gave a lecture in the context of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action “imπACT” training programme. Gori’s presentation addressed the distinctions, relationship and interaction between ethics, code and law. In a broad sense, law, ethics and code can all be said to “regulate”. However, they do so in different ways. In the first part of the session, based on several chapters from Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk, Gori has discussed how law, ethics and code have a different force and how, in turn, such force can have a different impact on the protection of legal rights and liberties. The participants to the session were invited to reflect on “what law does” and how this affords a distinctive form of protection. Together with the participants, Gori sought to identify the boundaries between law, code and ethics by discussing the way in which law sustains the tensions between the values of certainty, justice and purpose. In the second part of the session, the participants were invited to work in groups and engage in the analysis of a “hard case”-study, putting to test the conceptual distinctions drawn.

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