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 3.-4. 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
PhD Madis Ernits
Prof. Leif Kalev
PhD Oliver Laas
Prof. Marjolein Lanzing
Prof. William Lucy
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
09:30 Registration
10:00 Opening words by the Vice-Rector for Research, Professor of Data Analysis Katrin Niglas
10:10 Chairman of the Civil Law Chamber of Estonian Supreme Court and Justice of Estonian Supreme Court Urmas Volens
First Session: Is Law withering away?
Chairing: Prof. Massimo La Torre
10:20 Professor Giuliano Amato / The death of law? Law, as a human product, is immortal / online
10:50 Professor Roger Brownsword / Law’s Imperfect Governance: Problems, Challenges, and Prospects
11:20 Coffee break
11:50 Professor Gerald Postema / AI in Law or AI in the Place of Law?
12:20 Discussion
13:20 Lunch
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 Professor José Ignacio Solar Cayón / Artificial intelligence-assisted judicial decisions in Spanish legislation
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Professor Luisa Torchia / Algorithmic legality and automated administrative decision / online
16:20 Professor Lehte Roots / Algorithms and law – do computers understand law?
17:00 Discussion
17:50 Closing words, day one
Friday, 4th October
09:30 Registration
Third Session: Rights, Democracy, and Machines
Chairing: Katrin Niglas Professor of Data Analysis
10:00 Professor Francisco J. Ansuátegui Roig / Technology and new normativities
10:30 Professor Mart Susi / Non-coherence theory of digital human rights
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Professor Leif Kalev / Digitalization and democracy
12:00 Professor Marjolein Lanzing / Algorithmic Discrimination, Surveillance and Democracy
12:30 Discussion
13:20 Lunch
Fourth Session: Humans as Obsolete Actors?
Chairing: Professor Mart Susi
14:30 Professor William Lucy / Human Agency in the Face of Technological Management
15:00 Professor Jaan Aru / What’s next for humans?
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 PhD Oliver Laas / The Age of Moralizing Machines: AI and Technology Paternalism
16:30 Prof. Marina Lalatta Costerbosa / In Search of Lost Imagination. Günther Anders’ Concept of homo machina
17:00 Discussion
17:50 Closing words