Our project “Autonomous Driving and legal certainty of transport” (ADLAW) takes part as partner of the Seminar on artificial intelligence governance: ethics and law, organized by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Institute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB) and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish Research Council (IIIA-CSIC) (Barcelona), supported by the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, La Trobe Law School LawTech Research Group (Melbourne), and the Thomas More Law School of the Australian Catholic University.

Next December 19th, there will take place a scientific workshop of free access: LINK for the Scientific Workshop (December 19th).

Here, Eliseo Sierra Noguero will present the paper “Connected and Automated Mobility: Shaping Europe’s digital future”.

The complete program is as follows:

19 December

  1. 9.00 am – 9.20 am. Assumpció Malgosa (UAB Vice-chancellor Research Deputy), Patrick Keyzer (Dean of the Thomas More Law School, Australia), Carles Sierra (Head of IIIA-CSIC) and Esther Zapater (UAB Secretary and Head of IDT-UAB)  

First Session: Legal Governance, Compliance, and Policy

Chair: Nardine Osman

  • 9.20 am 9.40am. Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSIC): Online Institutions.
  • Harko Verhagen, Julian Padget, Mark d’Inverno and Pablo Noriega:  Ethical (Online) Systems through Conscientious Design.
  • 10.00 am – 10.20 am. Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): Ethics and the Web of Linked Data
  • 10.20 am – 10.45 am. Open Discussion.

10.45 -11.15 Coffee Break

Second Session: Legal Governance, Compliance, and Policy

Chair: Marta Poblet

  • 11.15 am – 11.35 am. Patrick Keyzer (Australian Catholic University): Constitutional Open Rights
  • 11.35 am – 11.55 am.   Pompeu Casanovas (IDT-UAB-LawTech LTU), Mustafa Hashmi (LawTech-LTU) and Louis de Koker (LawTech-LTU): Legal Governance Systems and Ethics.
  • 11.55 am – 12.15 pm. Nicholas Morris and Sue Jaffer (La Trobe LawTech Research Group): Trust, Wealth, and Governance in Developing Countries.
  • 12.15 am – 12.35 pm José Antonio Fernández Amor (IDT-UAB): Criptoactives as Taxable Wealth.
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (Catering)

Third Session: AI Applications in Health, Mobility and Corporate Environments

 Chair: Pompeu Casanovas

  1. 14.00 pm – 14.20 pm. José Ibeas (Nephrology Service of the Parc Taulí University Hospital (Sabadell, Barcelona) and oordinator of the Clinical, Interventional and Computational Nephrology Group (CICN) of the Research and Innovation Institute Parc Taulí):  Artificial Intelligence Applied to Kidney Disease or the Challenge of Decision Support in Complex Patients
  2. 14.20 am – 14.40 am. Eliseo Sierra (IDT-UAB): Connected and Automated Mobility: Shaping Europe’s digital future.
  3. 14.40 pm – 15.00 pm. Carles Górriz (IDT-UAB): Big Tech and AntiTrust: Lessons from a Transatlantic Comparison.
  4. 15.00 pm – 15.30 pm. Open Discussion

Fourth Session: Ethics and Law in Online Dispute Resolution, Blockchain and Industry 4.0

Chair: Louis de Koker

  1. Ethics and Law. Marta Poblet (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT): Blockchain Governance.
  2. 15.50 pm – 16. 10 pm. Josep Suquet (IDT-UAB): Protecting the consumers of Over-the-Top Platforms.
  3. 16.10 pm – 16. 30 pm. Emma Teodoro and Andrea Guillén (UAB-IDT): Ethical and Legal aspects of Human-centricity in Smart Factories.
  4. 16.30 pm – 16.55 pm. Open Discussion

17.00– 17.20 Tea Break

5th Session: Ethics, Politics and Philosophy

Chair: Esther Zapater

  1. 17.20 pm – 17.40 pm. Wendy R. Simon (IDT-International University of Catalonia): Identity and the Foundations of Liberal Democracy
  2. . Mario Macías (IDT-UAB): The Double Effect Principle: From Thomas Aquinas to its Current Meaning.
  3. 18.00 pm – 18.20 pm Open Discussion

Closing Session

  • 18.20 pm – 18.35 pm. Pompeu Casanovas, Pablo Noriega and Louis de Koker: Summaryand Wrapping Up.
  • 18.35 pm – 18.45 pm. Esther Zapater (UAB Secretary and Head of IDT-UAB) and Carles Sierra (Head of IIIA-CSIC): Closing and Final Words