Looking forward to visiting Sciences Po, Paris on 2nd December to speak about Public Data Cultures.

This is part of a panel on “openness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws” with Séverine Dusollier (Sciences Po), Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Cecilia Rikap (UCL), Leo Pascault (Waseda University), Balázs Bodó (IVIR Amsterdam) and Marta Arisi (Sciences Po).

You can find out more on the conference page and the university website.

The conference programme is copied below.

The stakes of the law in techno-legal encounters, from early networks to ‘Artificial Intelligence’

Final conference for ‘Towards a New Digital Rule of Law’ project at the Sciences Po Law School

How to attend

• 📆 1-2 December 2025
• 🕓 9 - 17 (Day 1) / 9 - 16.30 (Day 2)
• 📍 Salle Goguel (Day 1); Salle N207 (Innovation Pavillon) (Day 2)
• ➡️ In person upon registration - limited seats available

Registration link here

Full Program

Day 1 / Monday, 1 December 2025

📍 Location: Salle Goguel, 56 Rue des Saints Pères (entrance from 27 Rue Saint Guillaume), 75007 Paris

9.00 - 9.30: Welcome and coffee

9.30 - 11.00: Session 1: Algorithmic discrimination: European legal response

• Chair: Raphaële Xenidis (Sciences Po)
• Bastien Le Querrec (La Quadrature du Net)
• Gabrielle Du Boucher (Défenseur des droits)
• Nele Roekens (Unia)
• Louise Hooper (Garden Court Chambers) 

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00: Session 2: Algorithmic Fairness

• Chair: Katja Langenbucher (Goethe University Frankfurt & Sciences Po)
• Antje von Ungern-Sternberg (Trier University)
• Christophe Perignon (HEC) 

13.00 - 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 - 17.00: Roundtable: Digital constitutionalism: a new avenue or a dead end for fundamental values?

• Chair: Guillaume Tusseau (Sciences Po)
• Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University)
• Oreste Pollicino (Bocconi University)
• Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica Global School of Law)
• Maria Ruiz Dorado (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
• Francois Xavier Millet (University of the Antilles)

Day 2 / Tuesday, 2 December 2025

📍 Location: Salle N207 (Innovation Pavillon), 1 St. Thomas, 75007 Paris

9.00 - 9.45: Opening keynote by Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School): ‘Law as terrain of struggle within and between techno-institutional waves’

9.45 - 10.00: Coffee break

10.00 - 12.30: Session 1: Openness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws

• Chair: Séverine Dusollier (Sciences Po)
• Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)
• Jonathan Gray (King’s College London)
• Cecilia Rikap (UCL)
• Leo Pascault (Waseda University)
• Balázs Bodó (IVIR Amsterdam)
• Marta Arisi (Sciences Po)

12.30 - 13.30: Lunch break 13.30 - 15.00: Session 2: Invisible Architects: How Engineering Practices and Private Contractors Shape the Law in the Age of AI

• Chair: Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi (Sciences Po)
• Jasper van der Kist (University of Antwerp)
• Dimitri van der Meersche (Queen Mary University of London) (online)
• Taylor Woodcock (Asser Institute)
• Klaudia Klonowska (Sciences Po) 

15.00 - 16.30: Session 3: The DIGILAW Clinique program: conversations with the alumni 

• Chair: Lucas Anjos (Brazilian Data Protection Agency)
• Ana Paula Ríos Camarena Suárez del Real
• Lenora Dsouza
• Francesca Elli 
• Erla Maranaku
• Logan Pecht
• Salomé Petit

Scientific committee: Raphaële Xenidis, Katja Langenbucher, Guillaume Tusseau, Séverine Dusollier, Marta Arisi, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Klaudia Klonowska. You can also the Sciences Po Law School webpage for the event here