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01.12.2025

The stakes of the law in techno-legal encounters, from early networks to ‘Artificial Intelligence’

About this event

From 01 December 2025 09:00 to 02 December 2025 16:30

Day 1 / Monday, 1 December 2025

9.00 - 9.30: Welcome and coffee

9.30 - 11.00: Session 1

Algorithmic discrimination: European legal response

  • Chair: Raphaële Xenidis (Sciences Po)
  • Bastien Le Querrec (La Quadrature du Net), Gabrielle Du Boucher (Défenseur des droits), Nele Roekens (Unia), Louise Hooper (Garden Court Chambers) 

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00: Session 2

Algorithmic Fairness

  • Chair: Katja Langenbucher (Goethe University Frankfurt & Sciences Po)
  • Antje von Ungern-Sternberg (Trier University), Christophe Perignon (HEC) 

13.00 - 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 - 17.00: Roundtable

Digital constitutionalism: a new avenue or a dead end for fundamental values?

  • Chair: Guillaume Tusseau (Sciences Po)
  • Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University), Oreste Pollicino (Bocconi University), Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica Global School of Law), Maria Ruiz Dorado (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Francois Xavier Millet (University of the Antilles)

Day 2 / Tuesday, 2 December 2025

9.00 - 9.45: Opening keynote by Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)

Law as terrain of struggle within and between techno-institutional waves

9.45 - 10.00: Coffee break

10.00 - 12.30: Session 1

Openness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws

  • Chair: Séverine Dusollier (Sciences Po)
  • Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Jonathan Gray (King’s College London), Cecilia Rikap (UCL), Leo Pascault (Waseda University), Balázs Bodó (IVIR Amsterdam), Marta Arisi (Sciences Po)

12.30 - 13.30: Lunch break

13.30 - 15.00: Session 2

Invisible Architects: How Engineering Practices and Private Contractors Shape the Law in the Age of AI

  • Chair: Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi (Sciences Po)
  • Jasper van der Kist (University of Antwerp), Dimitri van der Meersche (Queen Mary University of London) (online), Taylor Woodcock (Asser Institute), Klaudia Klonowska (Sciences Po) 

15.00 - 16.30: Session 3

The DIGILAW Clinique program: conversations with the alumni 

  • Chair: Lucas Anjos (Brazilian Data Protection Agency)
  • Ana Paula Ríos Camarena Suárez del Real, Lenora Dsouza, Francesca Elli, Erla Maranaku, Logan Pecht, Salomé Petit, Julia Vieira (online).

Scientific committee: Raphaële Xenidis, Katja Langenbucher, Guillaume Tusseau, Séverine Dusollier, Marta Arisi, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Klaudia Klonowska.

Cover image caption: Cour de Gribeauval, Pavillon de l'Innovation avec logo (credits: Claire Lise Havet / Sciences Po)

About this event

From 01 December 2025 09:00 to 02 December 2025 16:30