IViR Lecture

IViR is pleased to announce thatDr. Bart van der Slootwill give a lecture entitledFrom Autonomy to Ambiguity: Rethinking Law for Imperfect Humans on Friday 13 November 2026 Modern law is built around a flattering idea of the human being: we are rational, autonomous individuals who know what we want, understand what is in our interests… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: From Autonomy to Ambiguity: Rethinking Law for Imperfect Humans

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Gloria González Fusterwill give a lecture entitled EU digital law: Still not that simple on Friday 18 September 2026 Months of policy and legislative discussions in Brussels about the ‘simplification’ of European Union (EU)’s digital law have shown the process is apparently more complicated than initially imagined by those… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: EU digital law: Still not that simple

IViR is pleased to announce that Prof. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesiuswill give a lecture entitledAI and poverty: Should socio-economic status be a protected ground in non-discrimination law?on Friday 29 May 2026 Many people worry about inequality in Europe. Artificial intelligence (AI) adds new dimensions to inequality, especially when AI systems are used to make decisions about… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: AI and Poverty

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Dinusha Mendiswill give a lecture entitled ‘The Imitation Game’: A comparative study of digital replicas and the law – opportunities and challenges on Tuesday 14 April 2026 Deepfake technologies have progressed at an incredible pace. Thanks to the advancements in AI and machine learning, it is has become easy… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: ‘The Imitation Game’

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Nadya Purtovawill give a lecture entitled Does Information Law Suit Information Machines?on Friday 27 March 2026 Law regulates information and depends on understanding information. Yet, this understanding is not based on the scientific study of information. Law relies on the ordinary meaning of information: something which has meaning to a… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Does Information Law Suit Information Machines?

IViR is pleased to announce thatDr Gábor Polyákwill give a lecture entitled Does EMFA really strengthen media freedom in Europe? on Friday 20 February 2026 The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) is a significant milestone in European media regulation. The presentation shows how the new regulation fits into the European media regulation and platform regulation… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Does EMFA really strengthen media freedom in Europe?

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”