News of the Robotics Law Research Centre

A joint workshop of the University of Würzburg and the Bamberg Higher Regional Court on digitalisation and AI in the judiciary will take place on Monday, 24 April 2023, from 12 to 4 pm in Hörsaal I.

On April 20, 2023, the Minister of Digitisation will visit the Faculty of Law! She will open the freshman rally as a digital rally. Afterwards, Professor Hilgendorf, Professor Hotho and the Minister will give a talk on the topic of digitisation in the Neubaukirche.

On Tuesday, May 28, 2023, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities will host a panel discussion at 6 p.m. with the topic "Are you still writing yourself? How AI is changing our education system", in which Professor Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf will participate.

Students from Bavaria and Hungary are working together on questions about autonomous driving under the guidance of experts. They cooperate online and meet several times in Hungary and Bavaria during the course of the project, where they can get to know and try out autonomous driving in practice. Law students are still being sought for the project.

For the RatSWD (Council for Social and Economic Data), the Forschungsstelle has developed a handout on "Dealing with knowledge of criminal offences in the context of conducting research projects", which was published today.

On 24.01.2023 Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess will give a lecture on "Digital Transformation of Companies: Backgrounds, Insights and Perspectives" in Hörsaal I from 2 - 4 pm.

Prof. Hilgendorf will give a speech on 11.01.2023 at 6 p.m. c.t. as part of the SOCAI Talk! with the topic "Science Fiction, Technology and Law".

From September 14-16, Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf will participate as a moderator at this year's "We Robot" in Seattle. He will moderate the talks "Regulating the Risks of AI" by Margot Kaminski (Colorado Law) and "Safety Paradoxes: Reimagining 'Safety' as a Regulatory Objective for Robotics and AI-System Legislation" by Kirsten Thomasen (University of British Columbia, Allard Law). 

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