CIIR hosted the 37th Nordic Conference on Law and IT in 2022
From 31 October 2022 to 2 November 2022, the Centre for Information and Innovation Law organised the 37th Nordic Conference on Law and Information Technology.
The theme of the year conference was "Humans, data and law: tectonic plates in motion". Over recent times, the European regulatory landscape has experienced several quakes with proposals such as the Digital Services Act, Digital Market Act, Data Governance Act, Data Act, Artificial Intelligence Act as well as other soft-law initiatives, attempting to adjust to the fast-paced developments in our digital society, many of which relate to challenges caused by scale and automation.
The conference aimed at taking a step back and taking a look: how are the tectonic plates of Law and Information Technology moving in the 2020s? What are the regulatory approaches? What is their interplay, what are common issues, what are common solutions? What is a Nordic perspective? And also: how should our legal education reflect the new technological world?
On Monday, 31 October almost 20 PhD students from the University of Helsinki, University of Oslo, University of Copenhagen, Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Lund University, Copenhagen Business School, BI Norwegian Business School, Stockholm University and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) convened to discuss their highly interesting early-stage career research at the intersection of law and information technology. You can read more about their projects here.
At the welcome reception, the world’s first and former tech ambassador of Denmark, Caspar Klynge, who later became Microsoft’s chief EU policy person, shared his thoughts on the state of tech regulation and Tobias Bornakke presented the work of the newly established Nordic think tank on tech giants’ influence on democracy in an intimate Chatham House rule setting.
Over the following two conference days, 80+ students and researchers from Nordic countries and practitioners discussed a multitude of different perspectives relating to the “automation” in various situations including how the Nordic legal education is (or should) consider these. The 2023 edition of the Nordic conference will be hosted by Finland.
You can read up on the conference program and access (most) presentations here
The 37th Nordic Conference on Law and Information Technology was organised by the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) with support from the LEGALESE project, funded by the Innovation Fund Denmark (0175-00011A). Contact: Sebastian Schwemer, sebastian.felix.schwemer@jur.ku.dk