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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.
How to attend
Day 1
1 December 2025, 9.00 - 17.00
Room Goguel, 56 Rue des Saints-Pères (entrance from 27 Rue Saint-Guillaume), 75007 Paris
Day 2
2 December 2025, 9.00 - 16.30
Room N207 (Innovation Pavillon), 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris
In person upon registration - Limited seats available.
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