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Donal Casey
Associate Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor at Uppsala University
Donal Casey is an Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Commercial Law at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent (UK). Donal is a socio-legal and regulatory governance scholar whose research is broadly concerned with the transnational regulation of risk and new technologies. His research has been published in Regulation & Governance, the European Law Journal and the Journalof Law and Society. Donal is the principal investigator for the WASP-HS Research Project: AI-Based RegTech.
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Associate Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor at Uppsala University
Donal Casey is an Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Commercial Law at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent (UK). Donal is a socio-legal and regulatory governance scholar whose research is broadly concerned with the transnational regulation of risk and new technologies. His research has been published in Regulation & Governance, the European Law Journal and the Journalof Law and Society. Donal is the principal investigator for the WASP-HS Research Project: AI-Based RegTech.
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Katja De Vries
Associate Professor at Uppsala University
Katja de Vries is an associate professor in public law at Uppsala University. Her current research focuses on the challenges that AI-generated content (deepfakes or synthetic data) poses to data protection, intellectual property and other fields of law; on the right to repair in relation to smart electronics; on data sharing in data-driven cultural industries; and on automated decision-making in the public sector.
Associate Professor at Uppsala University
Katja de Vries is an associate professor in public law at Uppsala University. Her current research focuses on the challenges that AI-generated content (deepfakes or synthetic data) poses to data protection, intellectual property and other fields of law; on the right to repair in relation to smart electronics; on data sharing in data-driven cultural industries; and on automated decision-making in the public sector.
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Martin Ebers
Associate Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, President of the Robotics and AI Law Society and Permanent Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Martin Ebers is President of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS), Germany, and Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Moreover, he is a permanent fellow at the law faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He taught and presented at more than 100 international conferences, is a member of several national and international research networks and published 22 books and over 120 articles in the field of Law & Technology, esp. Artificial Intelligence, as well as in Commercial, Private, European, Comparative and International Law. In 2022, Dr. Ebers was awarded a five-year grant from the Wallenberg Foundation (WASP-HS) to conduct research with his team in Sweden on “Private Rule-making and European Governance of AI and Robotics”. His latest books are among others “Algorithms and Law” (Cambridge University Press, 2020), “Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (Hart Publishing, 2022), and the “ Stichwortkommentar Legal Tech ” (Nomos Publishing, 2023). According to Beck-Aktuell 31.12.2023, Dr. Ebers is among the “top 5 legal influencers” in Germany. Since 2024, he is Editor-in-Chief of the new open access journal “Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance” at Cambridge University Press.
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Associate Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, President of the Robotics and AI Law Society and Permanent Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Martin Ebers is President of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS), Germany, and Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Moreover, he is a permanent fellow at the law faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He taught and presented at more than 100 international conferences, is a member of several national and international research networks and published 22 books and over 120 articles in the field of Law & Technology, esp. Artificial Intelligence, as well as in Commercial, Private, European, Comparative and International Law. In 2022, Dr. Ebers was awarded a five-year grant from the Wallenberg Foundation (WASP-HS) to conduct research with his team in Sweden on “Private Rule-making and European Governance of AI and Robotics”. His latest books are among others “Algorithms and Law” (Cambridge University Press, 2020), “Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (Hart Publishing, 2022), and the “ Stichwortkommentar Legal Tech ” (Nomos Publishing, 2023). According to Beck-Aktuell 31.12.2023, Dr. Ebers is among the “top 5 legal influencers” in Germany. Since 2024, he is Editor-in-Chief of the new open access journal “Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance” at Cambridge University Press.
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Jenny Eriksson Lundström
Senior Lecturer, The Department och Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
Jenny Eriksson Lundström is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University and serves as elected representative of the Uppsala University Board of the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the representative for Uppsala University in the Foundation for Legal Information, also serving as its president 2017-2021. After Dr. Eriksson Lundström’s Ph.D. on AI and formal modelling in the legal domain, she has broadened her research scope and agenda. Dr. Eriksson Lundström is the author of more than 30 publications on AI including formal modelling of AI, Existential Humanism and AI, AI and management, AI and innovation, and Transformations of Human Practice and the Post-Digital Society. Her work has appeared at international conferences and journals, including the European Journal of Information Systems, AI & Society, Communications of the Association for Information Systems and Journal of Business Research. SShe is the co-PI for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program in Humanities and Society funded project BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds and an Uppsala University AI4Research Fellow
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Senior Lecturer, The Department och Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
Jenny Eriksson Lundström is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University and serves as elected representative of the Uppsala University Board of the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the representative for Uppsala University in the Foundation for Legal Information, also serving as its president 2017-2021. After Dr. Eriksson Lundström’s Ph.D. on AI and formal modelling in the legal domain, she has broadened her research scope and agenda. Dr. Eriksson Lundström is the author of more than 30 publications on AI including formal modelling of AI, Existential Humanism and AI, AI and management, AI and innovation, and Transformations of Human Practice and the Post-Digital Society. Her work has appeared at international conferences and journals, including the European Journal of Information Systems, AI & Society, Communications of the Association for Information Systems and Journal of Business Research. SShe is the co-PI for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program in Humanities and Society funded project BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds and an Uppsala University AI4Research Fellow
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Johan Fredrikzon
Researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Enviroment, KTH Royal Institute, Stockholm
Johan Fredrikzon is a researcher at The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University. In 2022–2024 he was a visiting postdoc fellow at The University of California, Berkeley. Fredrikzon holds a Master of Computer Science from Stockholm University where he also received his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas in 2021. In his research, Fredrikzon has been interested in problems of loss, disappearance, waste, and decay as conditioned by processes of data management, office work, and archival practices. During 2018–19 he was a research affiliate at Yale University. Fredrikzon’s current research project is a three-year study of the history of artificial intelligence (AI) from the perspective of errors and mistakes in humans and machines respectively, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
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Petra Gyöngyi
Associate Senior Lecturer in Law and AI, Lund University
Petra Gyöngyi is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Law and AI at Lund University. Previously, she held academic positions at the University of Oslo, Maastricht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests are in the area of EU law, human rights law and comparative public law. She conducts research in the sub-field of AI and Justice. Her research examines implications of integrating technology and AI algorithms in courts systems, including consequences for human rights protection and judicial independence.
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Helena Haapio
Contract Strategist at Lexpert Ltd, Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Vaasa.
Helena Haapio is a pioneer of Proactive Law and Legal Design, a practitioner by day and an author and editor by night. Based in Helsinki, she works as a Contract Strategist at Lexpert Ltd. She is currently also an Associate Professor of Business Law at the University of Vaasa, a Senior Researcher in the JARGONFREE Research Group at Tampere University, and a Professor of Practice and a Docent of Proactive Law and Contract Design at the University of Lapland.
After completing legal studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and Cambridge University, England, Helena worked as an in-house Legal Counsel in Europe and the United States. Her articles have appeared in several business and professional publications and her work on dispute prevention and resolution through proactive contract design has been recognized internationally.
Helena was nominated as one of the “European Women of Legal Tech” in the category Academia & Education in 2020. Together with Stefania Passera, she created the WorldCC Contract Design Pattern Library. Helena has been actively involved in the development of the Nordic School of Proactive Law and acted as Expert to the European Economic and Social Committee in preparing its Opinion on The proactive law approach: a further step towards better regulation at EU level, published in the Official Journal of the EU in 2009. Helena is also a co-founder of the Legal Design Alliance: a network of lawyers, designers, technologists, academics, and others committed to making the legal system more human-centred and effective, through the use of design.
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Tanel Kerikmäe
Professor of European Legal Policy and Law & Tech at Tallinn University of Technology
Tanel Kerikmäe, is a full tenured professor of European Legal Policy and Law & Tech at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), and he has a worldwide experience from different universities in teaching and research. Tanel has been invited visiting professor in Europe and Asia (Luzern, Nagoya, Beihang, Palacký, National University Singapore etc). He is honorary professor at HCMC University of Law and holds a title of doctor honoris causa at National University of Law in Kharkiv, acting also as a foreign member of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. Tanel is also foreign member of the Centre of Robotics, AI and Law at National University Singapore. He has been advising both private (Meta, Bolt) companies as well as public sector. He led also the research group when drafting a first national AI strategy ad has been an expert for Real-Time-Economy project for Estonian government.
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Professor of European Legal Policy and Law & Tech at Tallinn University of Technology
Tanel Kerikmäe, is a full tenured professor of European Legal Policy and Law & Tech at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), and he has a worldwide experience from different universities in teaching and research. Tanel has been invited visiting professor in Europe and Asia (Luzern, Nagoya, Beihang, Palacký, National University Singapore etc). He is honorary professor at HCMC University of Law and holds a title of doctor honoris causa at National University of Law in Kharkiv, acting also as a foreign member of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. Tanel is also foreign member of the Centre of Robotics, AI and Law at National University Singapore. He has been advising both private (Meta, Bolt) companies as well as public sector. He led also the research group when drafting a first national AI strategy ad has been an expert for Real-Time-Economy project for Estonian government.
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John Lagström
Innovation Leader at the Swedish National Courts Administration
John Lagström is an innovation leader at the Swedish National Courts Administration. He has a background as a business lawyer, mostly in IT-law. He has worked with AI in the justice systems for many years and focuses on creating AI solutions for the courts to improve efficiency and strengthen the rule of law. John will show practical applications of AI in the courts as well as the legal and, sometimes, philosophical questions that arise when applying AI to the courts processes.
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Innovation Leader at the Swedish National Courts Administration
John Lagström is an innovation leader at the Swedish National Courts Administration. He has a background as a business lawyer, mostly in IT-law. He has worked with AI in the justice systems for many years and focuses on creating AI solutions for the courts to improve efficiency and strengthen the rule of law. John will show practical applications of AI in the courts as well as the legal and, sometimes, philosophical questions that arise when applying AI to the courts processes.
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Stefan Larsson
Associate Proffessor in Technology and Social Change, Lund University
Stefan Larsson is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University, Sweden. As a lawyer and socio-legal researcher he leads a research group focusing on social and normative implications of AI and adaptive technologies in both private and public domains, ranging from public sector decision-making to mammography and social robotics.
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Associate Proffessor in Technology and Social Change, Lund University
Stefan Larsson is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University, Sweden. As a lawyer and socio-legal researcher he leads a research group focusing on social and normative implications of AI and adaptive technologies in both private and public domains, ranging from public sector decision-making to mammography and social robotics.
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Dave Lewis
Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin
Dave Lewis is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin where he has served as head of its Artificial Intelligence Discipline and as Director of the ADAPT SFI Research Centre for Digital Content Technology. His research focuses on the use of open semantic models for Trustworthy AI and Data Governance, including open models for Data Protection and AI Ethics. He led teams contributing to the development of international standards in AI-based linguistic processing of digital content at the W3C and OASIS and to international standardisation of Trustworthy AI at ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42 and CEN/CENELEC JTC21.
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Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin
Dave Lewis is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin where he has served as head of its Artificial Intelligence Discipline and as Director of the ADAPT SFI Research Centre for Digital Content Technology. His research focuses on the use of open semantic models for Trustworthy AI and Data Governance, including open models for Data Protection and AI Ethics. He led teams contributing to the development of international standards in AI-based linguistic processing of digital content at the W3C and OASIS and to international standardisation of Trustworthy AI at ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42 and CEN/CENELEC JTC21.
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Henrik Palmer Olsen
Professor of Jurisprudence at University of Copenhagen and Faculty of Law and Professor 2 at University of Bergen
Henrik Palmer Olsen (HPO) is an internationally leading legal scholar and a Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Law and Professor 2 at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Law. As co-founder of the Center of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) he has contributed to the development of a foundational science research agenda in law, and has pioneered research in the new field of computational law. He has also contributed actively to introducing computational law approaches in active litigation before the Supreme Court of Denmark. He has had several top 10 publications in, and is continuously in the top 10% most downloaded scholars on, SSRN. Overall HPO has a track-record of academic excellence in his field including 100+ publications, many of which is published by leading international journals and publishers. HPO served as Associate Dean for Research and head of the PhD school from 2014-2022.
HPO has been awarded numerous grants for research on law and ai, including a 5 M. DKK grant from DFF-FSE for the project “From Dogma to Data” (co-pi Prof. Anders Søgaard), focusing on the development of new computational approaches to legal analysis. A DFF-Thematic grant for the project “Public Administration and Computational Transparency in Algorithms” (co-pi prof. Thomas T Hildebrandt) as well as a 7.5 M DKK Grand Solutions grant from the Innovation Foundation to lead the project LEGALESE on Natural language Processing for legal text.
HPO is member of the Scientific Advisory Board to Institut d’Etudes Avancees – Paris. He has chaired numerous review panels for higher research funding bodies. HPO Chaired the international committee that was assessing the quality of legal research in Norway (on request from the Norwegian Research Council).
Professor of Jurisprudence at University of Copenhagen and Faculty of Law and Professor 2 at University of Bergen
Henrik Palmer Olsen (HPO) is an internationally leading legal scholar and a Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Law and Professor 2 at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Law. As co-founder of the Center of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) he has contributed to the development of a foundational science research agenda in law, and has pioneered research in the new field of computational law. He has also contributed actively to introducing computational law approaches in active litigation before the Supreme Court of Denmark. He has had several top 10 publications in, and is continuously in the top 10% most downloaded scholars on, SSRN. Overall HPO has a track-record of academic excellence in his field including 100+ publications, many of which is published by leading international journals and publishers. HPO served as Associate Dean for Research and head of the PhD school from 2014-2022.
HPO has been awarded numerous grants for research on law and ai, including a 5 M. DKK grant from DFF-FSE for the project “From Dogma to Data” (co-pi Prof. Anders Søgaard), focusing on the development of new computational approaches to legal analysis. A DFF-Thematic grant for the project “Public Administration and Computational Transparency in Algorithms” (co-pi prof. Thomas T Hildebrandt) as well as a 7.5 M DKK Grand Solutions grant from the Innovation Foundation to lead the project LEGALESE on Natural language Processing for legal text.
HPO is member of the Scientific Advisory Board to Institut d’Etudes Avancees – Paris. He has chaired numerous review panels for higher research funding bodies. HPO Chaired the international committee that was assessing the quality of legal research in Norway (on request from the Norwegian Research Council).
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Maria Grazia Porcedda
Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda is tenured Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. A jurist and political scientist by training, she carries out research on cybercrime, cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, surveillance and systemic factors that shape IT law. Maria Grazia’s monograph ‘Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law’ (Hart Publishing 2023) is the first major work on this topic. Her work has appeared in international books and leading journals in law, computer science and social sciences.
Maria Grazia is a Collaborator with the ADAPT SFI Centre and a member of the European Data Protection Board’s Support Pool of Experts. She trained at the EDPS and the OECD and worked at the University of Namur, the European University Institute and the University of Leeds and collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies. She visited the School of Law of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Tilburg University’s Institute of Law and Technology (TILT).
Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda is tenured Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. A jurist and political scientist by training, she carries out research on cybercrime, cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, surveillance and systemic factors that shape IT law. Maria Grazia’s monograph ‘Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law’ (Hart Publishing 2023) is the first major work on this topic. Her work has appeared in international books and leading journals in law, computer science and social sciences.
Maria Grazia is a Collaborator with the ADAPT SFI Centre and a member of the European Data Protection Board’s Support Pool of Experts. She trained at the EDPS and the OECD and worked at the University of Namur, the European University Institute and the University of Leeds and collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies. She visited the School of Law of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Tilburg University’s Institute of Law and Technology (TILT).
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Rebecca Schmidt
Associate Professor in Law, Oslomet University
Rebecca Schmidt is an associate professor in law at Oslomet University. She obtained a PhD from the European University Institute an LLM in International and Legal Studies from New York University. Before starting her current position, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (at UiO). In her research Rebecca examines a key feature of globalization, the rise of regulation beyond the state. She focuses on the emergence of transnational regulatory cooperation between public and private actors, and in particular the interaction between expertise-driven private regulation and more traditional political authority in multi-level transnational regulatory networks. The focus here is on the regulation of new technologies, such as AI systems. Here she examines the interplay between public (particularly EU-level) regulation of robots and AI systems with privately developed regulatory regimes (as found in international technical standards, industry codes, as well as best practices).
Associate Professor in Law, Oslomet University
Rebecca Schmidt is an associate professor in law at Oslomet University. She obtained a PhD from the European University Institute an LLM in International and Legal Studies from New York University. Before starting her current position, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (at UiO). In her research Rebecca examines a key feature of globalization, the rise of regulation beyond the state. She focuses on the emergence of transnational regulatory cooperation between public and private actors, and in particular the interaction between expertise-driven private regulation and more traditional political authority in multi-level transnational regulatory networks. The focus here is on the regulation of new technologies, such as AI systems. Here she examines the interplay between public (particularly EU-level) regulation of robots and AI systems with privately developed regulatory regimes (as found in international technical standards, industry codes, as well as best practices).
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Sebastian Schwemer
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Magnus Strand
Associate Professor of European Law, Uppsala University
Magnus Strand is associate professor of European law at Uppsala University, and director of research in the law and business unit. He is also PI for a WASP-HS project on accountability and risk management in relation to AI and data usage in finance, and he participates in two other WASP-HS projects. His general research background is in commercial EU law and civil law.
Associate Professor of European Law, Uppsala University
Magnus Strand is associate professor of European law at Uppsala University, and director of research in the law and business unit. He is also PI for a WASP-HS project on accountability and risk management in relation to AI and data usage in finance, and he participates in two other WASP-HS projects. His general research background is in commercial EU law and civil law.
Beata Mäihäniemi
Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland
Beata Mäihäniemi is a university lecturer in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, where she had also previously worked as a University Researcher in sustainable transition. Beata holds an Adjunct Professorship in law and digitalisation from the University of Helsinki. She currently researches how green transition affects operations of online platforms and which legal changes this requires. She is an expert in data economy-related regulation and competition law (which includes appearing in the media as an expert on the issue).
Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland
Beata Mäihäniemi is a university lecturer in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, where she had also previously worked as a University Researcher in sustainable transition. Beata holds an Adjunct Professorship in law and digitalisation from the University of Helsinki. She currently researches how green transition affects operations of online platforms and which legal changes this requires. She is an expert in data economy-related regulation and competition law (which includes appearing in the media as an expert on the issue).
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