RAILS Student Paper Award 2023

We are pleased to announce a prize for early career researchers as part of an interdisciplinary workshop on Generative AI and the Law that will be held in Berlin on 6 July 2023. The workshop will bring together leading experts from diverse disciplines to explore the potential role and impact of Generative AI on different…

Call for abstracts! 8. Tagung GRUR Junge Wissenschaft

24. bis 25. Juni 2023 in Potsdam Digitale Plattformen prägen zunehmend unsere Rechts- und Wirtschaftsordnung (Amazon, Yelp, eBay) ebenso wie die Freizeitgestaltung (Tiktok), unser Informationsverhalten sowie die berufliche Vernetzung (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn) und im Aggregat die digitale Öffentlichkeit. Die hiermit verbundenen Rechtsfragen sind äußerst vielgestaltig und im Fluss. Ihnen ist die 8. GRUR-Tagung…

RAILS Student Paper Award 2022

Are you a student or doctoral candidate currently working on a topic at the interface between law/ethics and robotics/AI? Then there is a great opportunity to take part in our RAILS Student Paper Award competition! The Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS) is pleased to announce the RAILS Student Paper Award 2022 for the best…

RAILS General Meeting 2022

Im September war viel los bei uns! Anfang des Monats haben wir unsere Mitgliederversammlung in Berlin abgehalten! Thema war insb. die 5. RAILS-Konferenz, die 2023 in Deutschland stattfinden soll. Außerdem haben wir über viele neue Projekte gesprochen, die wir als Verein in den kommenden Monaten und Jahren gerne anstoßen würden. Bleibt also gespannt! — There…

Call for papers: Doctoral Seminar on Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms: Ethical and Legal Challenges in Tartu, Estonia

Date: 23 May 2019 Rapid advances in AI and robotics question and challenge the traditional boundaries of law. Algorithms are widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and the society (“algorithmic governance”), leading potentially to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy and property rights, and more. This has…

1st RAILS Tech & Law Camp

The 1st RAILS Tech & Law Camp, which took place on 12 May 2018 in Berlin, brought together lawyers, machine learning experts, data scientists, software engineers, product managers and other tech enthusiasts. We discussed the following topics: computer vision & privacy; future business models for law firms; practical AI; liability for AI; cross border tech;…