European Legal Lab in IP, Technology, Information and Communication

HUMAN-CENTRED TRANSFORMATION OF EU DIGITAL POLICY

Werner Stengg

Online Workshop

19^th November 2024   |  12 am- 1 pm CET

This presentation follows the EU's journey into the digital age, explaining how it uses legislation and policy to tackle challenges such as the abuse of market power by Big Tech companies and the spread of hate speech and disinformation.

Werner Stengg draws on his extensive experience in shaping digital policy to expertly analyse the EU’s ambitious legislative and innovation programme, which focuses on human rights and prioritises trustworthy, transparent, and accountable usage of digital technologies. Alongside this examination of legislation and policy, Stengg also outlines the EU’s major investment agenda into the digital infrastructures required to become a global player in our data-driven and AI-powered economy. Ultimately, he highlights that innovations in the digital sphere are essential not only for the global competitiveness of European companies, but also for Europe to safeguard its resilience, autonomy, and technological sovereignty at a time of mounting geopolitical tensions.

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Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society (DRAILS) is a CPDR - CRIDES research project

CREATION AND COMPETITION IN THE METAVERSE
 

Friso Bostoen

Online Workshop

7th November 2024   |  12 am- 1 pm CET

The metaverse is a futuristic concept. It was first articulated in science fiction but has been pursued by corporations ever since. Due to technical limitations, the metaverse still lies in the future. Nevertheless, it is worthy of reflection today, also by legal scholars. The reason is that two essential aspects of the metaverse, namely interconnection between virtual worlds and a thriving creator economy, may never be achieved without legal intervention. In other words, whether the metaverse ever comes into existence depends not only on developers but also—-even if more modestly—on lawyers. This paper shows how. It starts by describing the metaverse, from its literary history to contemporary manifestations and then tackles two key issues, interoperability and distribution, from a competition law and policy perspective.

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Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society (DRAILS) is a CPDR - CRIDES research project

VIRTUAL WORLDS, REAL RISKS:
EXPLORING USER SAFETY IN THE METAVERSE UNDER THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT

Jean De Meyere and Noémie Krack

Online Workshop

15th October 2024   |  12 am - 1 pm CET

What legal challenges do specific metaverse platforms present in terms of user safety, and how does the Digital Services Act (DSA) address these challenges? The emergence of virtual realities creates new risk for the safety of users of those new type of environments. While EU Regulation is aiming to improve online safety, how is this relevant to the context of extendand and virtual reality?

In this presentation, Jean De Meyere and Noémie Krack discuss how the DSA applies to metaverse platforms and what safeguards it offers to its user when it come to safety in the virtual environment.

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Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society (DRAILS) is a CPDR - CRIDES research project

The role of citizens and civil society in the international governance of AI

Seminar

10 October June 2024

Sciences Po, 1, place St Thomas d'Aquin, room N207, Pavillon de l'innovation, Paris

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INSPIRATION AND IP:  INSPIRATION IN IP
Academic and pedagogical research as a support to teaching

EIPTN (European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network)
16th Worldwide Annual Conference

4 - 5 October 2024
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles

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*Admission is free but places are limited. Thank you to register online before September 25.

VENUE | UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles | Room P02 | 43 Bd. du Jardin Botanique | 1000 Brussels (Belgium)

CONTACT | ariane.robyn@uclouvain.be 

ORGANISATION | European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network (EIPTN)

HOSTING TEAM | Alain Strowel, together with Vincent Cassiers, Luc Desaunettes, François Wéry, IP group of CRIDES

HOSTING UNIVERSITY | UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

LES CONTRATS DU NUMÉRIQUE – LOGICIELS, INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE ET INTERNET DES OBJETS (2/09/2024)

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Date et horaire | 2/09/2024 de 9h30 à 16h

Adresse | UCLouvain - Auditoire MORE 63  - Faculté de droit - Place Montesquieu 2 à 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.

Accès | Mobilité douce | en train : Gare de Louvain-la-Neuve – Université | en bus : Tec ou Conforto

En voiture  Plan des parkings
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Droits d’inscription | 100 EUR | Gratuit pour les chercheurs/doctorants, les étudiants et les membres de l'UCLouvain

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Formation permanente |  Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophone (OBFG): 5 points | Institut des Juristes d’Entreprise (IJE)

Contact | catherine.vanderlinden@uclouvain.be

The Multiple Actors of International AI Governance

Seminar

27 June 2024

UCLouvain, Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 43, 1000 Brussels

The seminar will begin with an overview of some initiatives taken by institutional actors and non-traditional structures, with a critical analysis of the existing framework.
During this day, we want to examine the organizations that could implement international AI governance, examining their procedures, opportunities and limitations, but also the role of non-conventional actors influencing AI regulation, such as standardization bodies, private and regional actors, at national and European levels.

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Digital Law Research Colloquium

19 JUNE 2024

The Geneva Digital Law Research Colloquium (www.digitallawcolloquium-geneva.ch), organized online by the School of Law of the University of Geneva in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the CRIDES Center for Economic Law and Society at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Renmin University of China, the Centre for Law, Technology and Society of the University of Ottawa, and the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio, provides researchers working in Digital law the opportunity to:

• present their work-in-progress to a panel of experienced Digital law experts,
• have in-depth discussions and exchanges, and
• receive helpful feedback and advice.
• It also affords selected participants the opportunity to present their work to the students attending the Geneva Digital Law Summer School.

The colloquium will be held in the framework of the 11th edition of the Geneva Digital Law Summer School. The summer school offers a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss cutting-edge Digital law and policy issues in today’s society with academics, practitioners, representatives of global policy makers and of international organizations.

Topics that can be presented at the colloquium include:

• emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, IoT, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, FinTech, etc.) ;
• cybersecurity ;
• digital privacy and online surveillance ;
• free speech ;
• consumer protection ;
• social media ;
• cloud computing ;
• internet infrastructure.
   

Faculty

• Prof. Christopher Bavitz, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Managing Director of Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
• Prof. Yaniv Benhamou, School of Law, University of Geneva
• Prof. Sergio Branco, Director at ITS Rio
• Prof. Irène Calboli, School of Law, University of Geneva and School of Law, Texas A&M
• Prof. Jacques de Werra, School of Law, University of Geneva
• Prof. Haijun Jin, School of Law, Renmin University of China
• Prof. Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor, International Law,The Geneva Graduate Institute
• Prof. Alain Strowel, Catholic University of Louvain, CRIDES Center for Economic Law and Society

Program : The programme of the Digital Law Research Colloquium 2024 will be available soon.

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Legal design roundtable (26/4/24)

Safeguarding elections:
How to combat AI-generated disinformation ?

Universitaire Stichting - Fondation Universitaire
Room Félicien Cattier
Egmontstraat/Rue d'Egmont 11
1000 Bruxelles

Hybrid participation available

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Speakers

- Krisztina Stump, Head of Media Convergence and Social Media Unit, DG CNECT, European Commission
- ​Cecilia Zappalà, Head of EU Government Affairs and Public Policy at YouTube
- Eliška Pírková, Senior Policy Analyst and the Global freedom of expression lead at Access Now
- Jean De Meyere, PhD researcher at UCLouvain and member of the project "REgulatory and other Solutions to MitigatE online DISinfomation" (REMEDIS)
- Michael Doherty, Professor of Law at Lancaster University and editor-in-chief of the Legal Design Journal 

​Chair

Alain Strowel, Professor at UCLouvain and Munich IP Law Center, co-coordinator of the project REMEDIS

Digital Law Research Colloquium

GENEVA SUMMER SCHOOL

22 JUNE 2023

The Geneva Digital Law Research Colloquium (www.digitallawcolloquium-geneva.ch), organized online by the School of Law of the University of Geneva in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the CRIDES Center for Economic Law and Society at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Renmin University of China, the Centre for Law, Technology and Society of the University of Ottawa, and the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio, provides researchers working in Digital law the opportunity to:

• present their work-in-progress to a panel of experienced Digital law experts,
• have in-depth discussions and exchanges, and
• receive helpful feedback and advice.
• It also affords selected participants the opportunity to present their work to the students attending the Geneva Digital Law Summer School.

The colloquium will be held in the framework of the 10th edition of the Geneva Digital Law Summer School. The summer school offers a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss cutting-edge Digital law and policy issues in today’s society with academics, practitioners, representatives of global policy makers and of international organizations.

Topics that can be presented at the colloquium include:

• emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, IoT, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, FinTech, etc.) ;
• cybersecurity ;
• digital privacy and online surveillance ;
• free speech ;
• consumer protection ;
• social media ;
• cloud computing ;
• internet infrastructure.
   

Faculty

• Prof. Christopher Bavitz, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Managing Director of Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
• Prof. Yaniv Benhamou, School of Law, University of Geneva
• Prof. Sergio Branco, Director at ITS Rio
• Prof. Irène Calboli, School of Law, University of Geneva and School of Law, Texas A&M
• Prof. Jacques de Werra, School of Law, University of Geneva
• Prof. Haijun Jin, School of Law, Renmin University of China
• Prof. Leah Plunkett, Inaugural Assistant Dean for Learning Experience & Technology and Meyer Research Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School
• Prof. Florian Martin-Bariteau, School of Law, Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa
• Prof. Alain Strowel, Catholic University of Louvain, CRIDES Center for Economic Law and Society and University Saint-Louis

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