CZS Institut für Künstliche Intelligenz und Recht

Tübingen Conference for AI and Law

NOTE
This event has already taken place and is presented here for archival purposes.

Program

Wednesday, 5. November

TimeProgram Item
09.00–09.30Welcome Addresses: Ulrike Luxburg (University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law); Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Dōshisha) Karla Pollmann (President of University of Tübingen); Dr. Felix Streiter (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung); Michèle Finck (University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law)
09.30–10.15Keynote – Sylvie Delacroix (King's College London): Designing With Uncertainty: LLM Interfaces as Transitional Spaces for Democratic Revival
10.15–10.45Coffee Break
10.45–11.45Contributed Short Presentations: Marta Soprana (LSE Ideas) – Trade-Relevant Models for AI Governance: "Brussels Effect" vs. "Singapore Effect"; Lyrissa Lidsky, Andrew Daves (University of Florida Levin College of Law) – Inevitable Errors: Defamation by Hallucination in AI Reasoning Models; Pierre-Alexandre Murena (Hamburg University of Technology) – Legal Co-Pilots: Perspectives and Technical Challenges
11.45–12.30Keynote – Solon Barocas (Microsoft Research / Cornell University): Informal Algorithms: On the Use of Generative AI for Decision Making
12.30–13.30Lunch
13.30–14.30Contributed Posters: Wijnand van Woerkom (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) – Applications of a Fortiori Case-Based Reasoning in AI and Law; Sebastian Nagl, Elly Breu, Angelina Greiner, Matthias Grabmair (TUM) – BenGER (Benchmark for German Law) System Showcase; Bianca Steffes, Diogo Sasdelli (Saarland University, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) – Negation as a Challenge for Machine Translation From Natural Language Into Logical Formalisms in the Legal Domain; Rabanus Derr, Alina Wernick, Bob Williamson (University of Tübingen and Tübingen AI Center) – Being Accurate: The EU AI Act on Accuracy; Vivian Nastl (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) – Extending Legal Databases With LLM Annotations: Opportunities and Challenges; Stefano Tramacere, Mathias Hanson (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa) – Beyond the Vacuum: Neither Magic, nor Mathematics! How Techno-Normative Choices Have Critical Implications for Persons Subjected to ML-Driven Decision Systems; Marco Sanchi (University of Pisa, University of Bologna) – Towards Explainable Autonomous Vehicles Through the Artificial Intelligence Act; Lukas Arnold (University of Bern, Institute of Public Law, and Columbia University, Department of Computer Science) – Regulatory Protection Against AI Discrimination: A Comparison Between the US and the EU; Jan Grenzebach (Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (BAuA)) – Fairness Engineering in the Algorithmic Management of Platform Work; Lezel Roddeck (Bucerius Law School) – Automation Bias in Education: A Blind Spot in the European AI Act?; Giovanni Zaccaroni (University of Milano-Bicocca) – AI, Democracy and the EU Digital Strategic Autonomy; Elif Ildirar (Hamburg University) – Digital Watcher or Digital Prosecutor? AI in Child Protection and Its Evidentiary Role in Criminal Procedure; Yangzi Li (National University of Singapore) – Human Creativity vs. Machine Intelligence: Reconceptualizing the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Outputs; Daniel Eder (Johannes Kepler University Linz) – The AI Act and Bias: Effectiveness and Technical Feasibility of Countermeasures; Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy (Bilkent University Faculty of Law / King's College London Visiting Researcher) – Attributing Agency Laws to Machines: Legal Design for the AI-Driven Contract Economy; Tahoora Heydari (University of Helsinki) – Defectiveness in the Age of AI: The Challenges and Innovations of Article 7 in the Revised EU Product Liability Directive; Peter R. Slowinski (Adam Mickiewicz University) – Legal Protection of Synthetic Data for Artificial Intelligence Training; Eric Günther, Balázs Szabados, Robi Bhattacharjee, Sebastian Bordt, Ulrike von Luxburg (University of Tübingen) – Informative Post-Hoc Explanations Only Exist for Simple Functions: Even counterfactual explanations do not comply with the AI Act; Annalena Rotsch (University of Tübingen) – Legal Challenges of AI-assisted Grading in Education; Stefan Thomas (University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law) – Legal and Economic Analysis of Algorithmic Pricing and Platform Pricing; Kristof Meding (University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law) – The Computational Law Lab; Alina Wernick (University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law) – Law, AI and Society Group; Alina Wernick (University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law) – The Law of Biological Computing; Karolin Frohnapfel, Mara Seyfert (University of Tübingen) – Communicating the Conflict: Leveraging Predictive Multiplicity for Greater Transparency
14.30–15.15Keynote – Lilian Edwards (Newcastle University): ChatGPT, Why Did You Tell Me That?
15.15–15.45Coffee Break
15.45–16.45Contributed Short Presentations: Vittoria Caponecchia (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) – Defining Significant Harm in the AI Act: The Case of Voice-Based Virtual Assistants; Madeleine Waller, Paul Waller, Karen Yeung (King's College London) – Can Explainable Artificial Intelligence Methods Satisfy Legal Obligations of Transparency, Reason-Giving, and Legal Justification?; Zachary Cooper (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) – Dams in the Infinite River: Next-Generation Copyright in Next-Generation Interactive Media
16.45–17.30Keynote – Christoph Sorge (Saarland University): Machine Learning and Data Protection – Interdisciplinary Considerations
18.30–19.00Welcome Drinks at Neckawa
19.00Dinner at Neckawa

 

Donnerstag, 6. November

 

TimeProgram Item
09.00–09.45Keynote – Michal Gal (University of Haifa): Optimal Regulation of Algorithmic Competition
09.45–10.30Keynote – Christoph Kern (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): The Human Factor in AI Pipelines
10.30–11.00Coffee Break
11.00–11.15CZS Institute Research Groups: The Computational Law Lab (Kristof Meding, University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law); The Law, AI and Society Group (Alina Wernick, University of Tübingen and CZS Institute for AI and Law)
11.15–11.55Contributed Short Presentations: Marilyne Ordekian (University College London) – The Application of Large Language Models in Law: A Systematic Interdisciplinary Study of Privacy, Security, and Ethical Risks; Teodora Groza (Sciences Po) – AI as Self-Improving Infrastructure
11.55–12.40Keynote – Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods): Professor GPT: Having a Large Language Model Write a Commentary on Freedom of Assembly
12.40–13.30Lunch Break
13.30–14.15Keynote – Rediet Abebe (Harvard University / ELLIS Institute Tübingen / University of Tübingen): Algorithms on Trial: Evaluating AI Evidence in Courts
14.15–14.55Contributed Short Presentations: Alessio Azzutti (University of Glasgow) – Artificial Intelligence and Illegal Markets; Anne Lauber-Rönsberg (TU Dresden University of Technology) – Inferring How to Generate Outputs: Rethinking the AI System Definition Under the EU AI Act
14.55–15.30Coffee Break
15.30–16.15Keynote – Philipp Hacker (European New School of Digital Studies): Between Hallucinations and Reality: AI Liability Along the Value Chain
16.15Closing Notes