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Artificial intelligence remains in the regulatory hot-seat, with governments racing to develop new and refined regulations and protections for AI. While the EU AI Act is the first mover in the space and the Brussels effect is in play, countries across the globe weigh the key issues of risks, rights, and economic opportunity against the needs of their region. In this learning call, panelists ...

What are the challenges of finding consensus in a diverse Europe and the potential of Europe as a global regulator of the digital field? Renate Nikolay is a key voice in the development of European digital regulation, with a deep experience in data protection, hate speech, and disinformation. She will talk with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz about the challenges of finding consensus in a diverse Europe ...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from the law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Møller shows that they are central to Kant's account of reason. Through an analysis of the legal metaphors in their entirety, she demonstrates that Kant conceives of reason ...

Public pressure on platform companies to more soundly monitor the content on their sites is constantly increasing. To address this, platforms are turning to algorithmic content moderation systems. These systems prioritize content that promises to increase engagement and block content that is deemed illegal or is infringing the platform's own policies and guidelines. But content moderation is a ...

Lucia Zedner (Oxford, All Souls College, Professor of Criminal Justice)Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School, Professor of Law and of Political Science)Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School, Professor of Law)Christoph Burchard (Goethe University, Professor of Criminal Justice etc.)Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Goethe University, Professor of Public Law etc.)Jürgen Kaube (Co-Editor at Large, ...

The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The lecture was preceded by a ceremony to commemorate Yehuda Elkana.As we move into a world in which algorithms, robots, and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to better understand ...

When the computer decides about our insurance coverageArtificial intelligence is being increasingly leveraged across industries to offer superior products and services and optimize business processes. The proliferation of AI, however, raises a number of ethical questions on data privacy, fairness, bias, and accountability. In the future, will AI decide who is insured and who is not? Who will get ...

A Genealogy of Criminal Risk Assessment in American Law and PolicyJonathan Simon (UC Berkeley, Professor of Criminal Justice Law)Algorithms – and the actors behind them – are surveying and impacting ever more dimensions of our modern lives. They recommend which movies to watch; they calculate risk-appropriate credit scores; and they play a role in meting out “just” punishment; to only name ...

A Genealogy of Criminal Risk Assessment in American Law and PolicyProf. Jonathan Simon (Professor of Criminal Justice Law, UC Berkeley)Convenors: Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe University, Professor of Criminal Justice, PI of ConTrust and "Normative Orders") and Prof. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Goethe University, Professor of Public Law, PI of ConTrust)Presented by:Forschungsverbund ...

Never apologise, never explain: (How) can AI rebuild trust after conflicts?Burkhart Schäfer (University of Edinburgh, Professor of Computational Legal Theory)Opening Remarks by Prof. Enrico Schleiff (President of Goethe University)Opening Remarks by Prof. Rainer Forst (Speaker of ConTrust and Normative Orders)Welcoming Remarks & Comment Prof. Klaus Günther (Dean of the Faculty of Law Goethe ...

Algorithms – and the actors behind them – are surveying and impacting ever more dimensions of our modern lives. They recommend which movies to watch; they calculate risk appropriate credit scores; and they play a role in meting out “just” punishment; to only name a few areas. At the same time, they correct imperfect human decisions and add new informational dimensions to decisions ...

If we are building AI for the future we envision, AI applications must serve humanity and respect fundamental rights. Intergovernmental institutions and supranational entities which have published their AI principles in the last couple of years are now facing the challenge of how to regulate the use and effects of AI applications. The biggest risks and impact on rights are considered to be in ...

The German Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) invite you to attend a conference on “Sustainability Transformation Conference 2020: Socio-ecological transformation on the fast track – Covid-19 as catalyst of change?”.The digital conference will focus on the transformation of the economy and society to ...

There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems. It establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order which explains and justifies processes of online rule and regulation. This order ...

In the ongoing national conversations about policing, protest, racism, and violence, the role of guns plays an important part. And with gun purchasing, carrying, and brandishing increasingly in the news during the Covid-19 pandemic, the intersection of these issues takes on heightened importance. Join us for an online panel discussion about these issues. Panelists include Duke's own Darrell ...

Join a coalition of student groups for a discussion and Q&A on the merits, issues, and trade-offs of defunding-to-reallocate budget initiatives. Sponsored by Black Law Students Association, Latin American Law Students Association, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Womxn of Color Collective, American Civil Liberties Union, National Lawyers Guild, Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project, ...

Please join us to hear Katharina Pistor discuss her new book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. The book is a major intervention about the nature of modern capitalism. Pistor argues for the central role of the law in shaping the distribution of wealth and makes a compelling case that it is law that creates capital itself. Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker ...

A Book Panel Discussion with Prof. Alexandra Natapoff Panel discussion of Alexandra Natapoff's new book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal. The book describes the powerful influence that misdemeanors exert over the entire U.S. criminal system. It was selected by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2018. Natapoffis a ...

The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and the USA, during the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks, which revolved around the value of privacy and the legitimacy of surveillance practices. Using a discourse analysis of mass media and specialist debates, it shows how these are closely interlinked with technological controversies and how, as a result, contestation ...

After the publication of Hans Jonas' Das Prinzip Verantwortung forty years ago, the principle of responsibility has become a key concept in moral and political debates. Yet the unconditional responsibility for the possibility of the existence of future generations – not only of humans, but also of other living beings – is invariably accompanied by the "heuristics of fear," which presupposes ...