IViR Lecture

Law for Health and Life (UvA) and IViR are pleased to announce thatDr. Catriona McMillanwill give a lecture entitled Regulating Femtech: Addressing Regulatory Gaps in Women’s Health Technologies on Friday 14 November 2025 The proliferation of femtech—technologies designed to monitor, manage, or enhance aspects of women’s health— poses novel challenges for contemporary regulatory and legal… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Regulating Femtech: Addressing Regulatory Gaps in Women’s Health Technologies

IViR is pleased to announce that Judith Donathwill give a lecture entitledI Think You Oughtn’t Think Machines Can Thinkon Monday 29 September 2025 “Can machines think?” is the question Alan Turing set out to answer in his field-defining 1950 paper. And while he quickly dismissed it as “too meaningless to discussion”, the question of machine… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: I Think You Oughtn’t Think Machines Can Think

IViR is pleased to announce thatDr. Raphaël Gellertwill give a lecture entitledReconceptualising individual autonomy in an age of digital manipulation?on 27 June 2025 Nowadays digital manipulation can take place through so called dark patterns which refers to deceptive digital interfaces which are designed to unduly influence consumers’ decision-making process and nudge them into taking decisions that… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Reconceptualising individual autonomy in an age of digital manipulation?

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Hannah Ruschemeier & Prof. Rainer Mühlhoffwill give a lecture entitled The AI State – why we need to save the rule of law from “effectiveness” on 16 May 2025 The establishment of a “Government Efficiency” department, led by the world’s richest man, and operating outside legal constraints—rapidly dismissing public… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: The AI State – why we need to save the rule of law from “effectiveness”

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Lisa Ramseywill give a lecture entitledBalancing Trademark and Free Speech Rights in Trademark Registration and Enforcement Laws on 4 April 2025 Trademark laws are government regulations of language, designs, and other types of expression used to communicate about the source of goods or services. Trademarks are also used by… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Balancing Trademark and Free Speech Rights in Trademark Registration and Enforcement Laws

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Estelle Derclayewill give a lecture entitledThe UK copyright law’s approach to issues generated by AIon 6 February 2025 The UK was both preceding (with the introduction of the TDM exception in 2014) the EU and is now lagging behind the EU in its treatment of issues created by the… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: The UK copyright law’s approach to issues generated by AI

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Victor Pickardwill give a lecture entitledReimagining Local Media Infrastructures: Non-Reformist Media Reforms to Better Serve Democratic Needson 18 December 2024 We learn as children that democracy requires a functional press system as a prerequisite for a self-governing society. There is also a general consensus that all communities have informational… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Reimagining Local Media Infrastructures: Non-Reformist Media Reforms to Better Serve Democratic Needs

IViR is pleased to announce thatDr. Cecilia Rikapwill give a lecture entitledIntellectual Monopoly amid the AI and Cloud ageon 22 November 2024 The world’s largest corporations are knowledge and information predators. They turned these intangibles into assets and craft narratives that further enable them to capture value from society at large. They capture knowledge co-produced… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Intellectual Monopoly amid the AI and Cloud Age

IViR and the Law Centre for Health and Life (UvA) are pleased to announce thatLeonardo Cervera Navaswill give a lecture entitledArtificial Intelligence and Data Protection,a view from the European Data Protection Supervisoron 18 October 2024. The AI Act is a leadership call for a human-centered approach to the regulation of new technologies. The EU aims to… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection, a view from the European Data Protection Supervisor

IViR is pleased to announce thatProfessor Benjamin Rauewill give a lecture entitledFreedom of speech on platforms: Lessons to be learned from copyright lawon 28 June 2024 It is not easy to strike a balance between the protection of intellectual property or personal rights and freedom of expression, especially on online platforms. Copyright law had to… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Freedom of speech on platforms: Lessons to be learned from copyright law