AI and Law

Clement Guitton is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, focusing on topics around law and technology. He previously worked on cyber security, bringing together the fields of politics and technology. Has has published two books, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles. Prior to this position, he worked in counter-espionage, consulting, at the International Telecommunication Union, and as a political analyst for a large reinsurance company. He has degrees in telecommunication engineering, international affairs, and finance. Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux is an Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Faculty of Law, heading the chair of Digital and Computational Law and leading the Legal Design & Code Lab. She has a background in law and economics and specializes in research at the intersection of law and digital technologies with a particular focus on privacy, data protection, design approaches, transparency of automated decision-making and artificial intelligence, automatically processable regulation, and trust in automation. Aurelia’s scientific publications on those subjects are open access and she has presented her research at numerous international conferences. During her doctoral research, which was fully funded by a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Aurelia analyzed the application of the concept of data protection by design and default in an Internet of Things environment. Her research "Designing for Privacy and Its Legal Framework" was published by Springer and won the Issekutz and SIAF award. Simon Mayer is a Professor at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, where he heads the Chair for Interaction- and Communication-based Systems. Previously, he worked at Siemens Corporate Technology in Berkeley, USA, most recently as Senior Key Expert for Smart and Interacting Systems, and afterwards headed the Cognitive Products research group at the Austrian COMET research center Pro2Future and Graz University of Technology. He has co-authored over 100 journal, magazine, conference, and workshop publications, and is serving in the steering committee of the International Conference on the Internet of Things as well as the editorial board of the IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine.

Chapter 1: Automation of Law. Chapter 2: Law and Computer Science Interactions. Chapter 3: Automatically Processable Regulation. Chapter 4: Challenges and Controversies. Chapter 5: Needed (Public) Debates. Chapter 6: Educational Shifts Induced by Automatically Processable Regulation. Chapter 7: Exercises. Epilogue. Acknowledgements. Guiding Approaches for Solutions. References