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Summer Courses 2025

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16 May
IVIR Lecture Series

The AI State – why we need to save the rule of law from “effectiveness”
Advanced LLM Technology Governance

A second cohort starts in September 2025.
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IViR Summer Courses:

International Copyright
Law & Policy
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IViR Summer Courses:

International Copyright
Law & Policy
Privacy Law & Policy

European Platform Regulation

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2 May, 2025

GiKii 2025 – Technology in its villain era – Call for Papers

Call for papers

Has technology’s slouch towards evermore and inevitable progress condemned it to live long enough to see itself become a villain? Should some tech (bros) have died decades ago so that they could be buried a hero? Or maybe the more things change, the more they stay the same…

11 April, 2025

IMLPP Podcast 2024: De groeiende bedreiging voor persvrijheid en ontwikkelingen in de strijd tegen SLAPPs

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SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) vormen een groeiende dreiging voor journalisten en de persvrijheid in Nederland en Europa. In deze tweedelige podcast gaan Wisse van der Lelij en Gabi Trogrlić, voormalig masterstudenten Informatierecht, in het kader van het vak International Media Law, Policy and Practice (IMLPP), in gesprek met Emma Bergmans en Jasmijn de Zeeuw van Free Press Unlimited.

1 April, 2025

Call for Papers: GenAI & Creative Practices

Call for papers

Responsible Digital Transformations would like to invite you to submit proposals to the GenAI & Creative Practices conference, which will take place at the University of Amsterdam on 17 & 18 December 2025.

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Upcoming events

May 16, 2025

IViR Lecture Series: The AI State – why we need to save the rule of law from “effectiveness”

  • IViR Lecture
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
May 16, 2025

European Copyright Society: 9th Annual Conference

Beyond private law? The regulatory aims of copyright law

Glasgow, United Kingdomhttps://www.create.ac.uk/ecs-202…
May 20, 2025

Democracy and AI

Amsterdam, The Netherlandshttps://spui25.nl/programma/demo…
May 21 - 23, 2025

CPDP.ai 2025: 18th international conference

The world is watching

Brussels, Belgiumhttps://www.cpdpconferences.org/
June 3 - 4, 2025

AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025: From Platform Governance to Generative AI

Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance

Bremen, Germanyhttps://platform-governance.org/…
June 26, 2025

Benelux Merkencongres

Amsterdam, The Netherlandshttps://www.delex.nl/shop/opleid…
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Latest publications

A Unitary Title for Copyright download

van Eechoud, M.
Q: Bundel ter nagedachtenis aan prof. mr. Antoon Quaedvlieg, deLex, 2025, Amsterdam, ISBN: 9789086921065
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Nieuwheid in het Auteursrecht download

Hugenholtz, P.
Q: Bundel ter nagedachtenis aan prof. mr. Antoon Quaedvlieg, deLex, 2025, Amsterdam, ISBN: 9789086921065
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Procedural Justice and Judicial AI; Substantiating Explainability Rights with the Values of Contestation external link

Metikoš, L. & Domselaar, I. van
2025
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The advent of opaque assistive AI in courtrooms has raised concerns about the contestability of these systems, and their impact on procedural justice. The right to an explanation under the GDPR and the AI Act could address the inscrutability of judicial AI for litigants. To substantiate this right in the domain of justice, we examine utilitarian, rights-based (including dignitarian and Dworkinian approaches), and relational theories of procedural justice. These theories reveal diverse perspectives on contestation, which can help shape explainability rights in the context of judicial AI. These theories respectively highlight different values of litigant contestation: it has instrumental value in error correction, and intrinsic value in respecting litigants' dignity, either as rational autonomous agents or as socio-relational beings. These insights help us answer three central and practical questions on how the right to an explanation should be operationalized to enable litigant contestation: should explanations be general or specific, to what extent do explanations need to be faithful to the system's actual behavior or merely provide a plausible approximation, and should more interpretable systems be used, even at the cost of accuracy? These questions are not strictly legal or technical in nature, but also rely on normative considerations. The practical operationalization of explainability will therefore differ between different valuations of litigant contestation of judicial AI.

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  • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5242905

ai, digital justice, Transparency

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Korte loopbaanbeschrijving van Prof. Egbert Dommering external link

Dommering, E.
2025
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  • https://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/loopbaanbeschouwing_Dommering-1.pdf

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Export Controls as Innovation Marketing? Sociotechnical Imaginaries in the Ringfencing of Quantum Technologies external link

Nguyen, A.
Law, Technology and Humans, vol. 7, iss. : 1, pp: 68-83, 2025
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Why are a host of states, such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands, imposing export controls on quantum computers with technical specifications (e.g. 2000 qubits) that are not yet realisable? No full-fledged ‘useful’ quantum technology (QT) exists yet; instead, the regulatory object of export controls is the network of technological artefacts (equipment, prototype, proof-of-concepts), people and labs (the ‘assemblage’ of quantum innovation) endeavouring to make quantum a reality. Thus, export controls serve mainly as atool of knowledge regulation over critical knowledge and R&D exchanges taking place to realise the quantum ambition. This article contends that it is not the material reality of quantum innovation –which is still mired in major engineering challenges –that informs export control efforts surrounding QT, but rather the ‘sociotechnical imaginary’ of quantum that serves as the ‘muse’ for law-and policy-makers. Quantum imaginaries are pivotal to understanding the rationales of QT export controls and the narratives in which they are entrenched. It is not necessarily the ‘2000 qubits’ in and of themselves, their technical (non-)feasibility or (non-)realisability, but rather the imaginaries told and believed about their technological possibilities and power thatare decisive in the ringfencing performed by export controls on QT.

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.3777
  • https://lthj.qut.edu.au/article/view/3777

quantum technologies

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