Conference “The Death of Law? Machines, Technology and Algorithms Deciding”
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Tallinn University SOGOLAS Global Forum conference “The Death of Law? Machines, Technology and Algorithms Deciding” from 3rd to 4th October in Tallinn University.
The conference discusses how digitalization and artificial intelligence are changing the field of law. While making the legal institutions more effective, the increasing digitalization of legal processes are in a sense about to change their rationale and mode of operation. With the rise of artificial intelligence and the increasing dominance of technology, there is a growing concern about the erosion of empathy, free will, and the very essence of human subjectivity. This landscape pushes towards a radical transformation of our practice of law towards a destination that might plausibly be labelled as “death of law”. This conference seeks to assess the meaning and consequences of such possible “death of law” and whether this “death” really is the final destination of our legal culture and world. Our conference will face this issue with contributions of distinguished scholars from Europe and America.
Prof. Giuliano Amato
Prof. Jaan Aru
Prof. Roger Brownsword
Prof. José Ignacio Solar Cayón
Prof. Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
Prof. Leif Kalev
PhD Oliver Laas
Prof. Marjolein Lanzing
Prof. William Lucy
Prof. Herlinde Pauer-Studer
Prof. Gerald J. Postema
Prof. Francisco J. Ansuátegui Roig
Prof. Lehte Roots
PhD Madis Ernits
Prof. Mart Susi
Prof. Luisa Torchia
Programme
Thursday, 3rd October
10:00 Opening words/Katrin Niglas Professor of Data Analysis
First Session: Is Law withering away?
Chairing: Prof. Massimo La Torre
10:10 Prof. Giuliano Amato / TBC / online
10:40 Prof. Roger Brownsword / Law’s Imperfect Governance: Problems, Challenges, and Prospects
11:10 Coffee break
11:30 Prof. Gerald Postema / AI in Law or AI in the Place of Law?
12:00 Prof. Herlinde Pauer-Studer / The Resilience of Law
12:30 Discussion
13:30 Coffee break
Second Session: Rules and Algorithms
Chairing: Indrek Grauberg Director of the School School of Governance, Law and Society
14:30 PhD Madis Ernits / Artificial Intelligence Act and Courts
15:00 Prof. José Ignacio Solar Cayón / Artificial intelligence-assisted judicial decisions in Spanish legislation
15:30 Coffee break
15:50 Prof. Luisa Torchia / Algorithmic legality and automated administrative decision / online
16:20 Prof. Lehte Roots / Algorithms and law – do computers understand law?
16:50 Discussion
Friday, 4th October
Third Session: Rights, Democracy, and Machines
Chairing: Katrin Niglas Professor of Data Analysis
10:00 Prof. Francisco J. Ansuátegui Roig / Technology and new normativities
10:30 Prof. Mart Susi / Non-coherence theory of digital human rights
11:00 Coffee break
11:20 Prof. Leif Kalev / Digitalization and democracy
11:50 Prof. Marjolein Lanzing / (To be adjusted)
12:20 Discussion
13:30 Coffee break
Fourth Session: Humans as Obsolete Actors?
Chairing: Prof. Mart Susi
14:30 Prof. William Lucy / Human Agency in the Face of Technological Management
15:00 Prof. Jaan Aru / What’s next for humans?
15:30 Coffee break
15:50 PhD Oliver Laas / TBC
16:20 Prof. Marina Lalatta Costerbosa / In Search of Lost Imagination. Günther Anders’ Concept of homo machina
16:50 Discussion
17:40 Closing words