LunchTimeSeries Winter term 2019/20

The LTS LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society enters the next round!

LTS LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society enters into the Winter Term 2019/20!

For the eighth consecutive semester, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Iris Eisenberger, M.Sc. (LSE), Institute of Law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Konrad Lachmayer, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, are organising the Lunch Time Series on Law, Technology and Society (LTS).

In the winter term 2019/20, the series will start on 25 October 2019 with a lecture given by Prof. Brice Laurent, MINES ParisTech, on "European Objects: the troubled dreams of harmonization". You can find the announcement here.

On 13 December 2019, Prof. Arianna Vedaschi, Bocconi University, will give a lecture on "Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Terrorism: A Tipping Point for Constitutional Law". You can find the announcement here.

As our third guest in this semester, we will welcome Prof. Sarah de Rijcke, Leiden University, on 22 January 2020. She will talk about "Bend until it breaks? On interactions between research evaluation, research conduct, and science-society relations". You can find the announcement here.

After each lecture, there will be an opportunity for public discussion. Based on the Anglo-American model of the Lunch Time Series, the Institute of Law will provide catering. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge.

Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at.

You can find the complete program of the semester here.

European Objects: the troubled dreams of harmonization

Prof. Brice Laurent

How experiments become futures: Social learning for self-driving cars

Dr. Jack Stilgoe

Human Control of Machine Intelligence

Prof. Joanna Bryson

Peer-to-Peer Law and the Commons

Prof. Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

Law meets Data Science: Findings from the EUTHORITY Project

Dr. Nicolas Lampach

Nuclear Imaginaries in Japan: From Hiroshima to Fukushima

Dr. Kyoko Sato

Industry 4.0 and robotics: legal challenges

Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M.

The World Bank’s role in programmes regarding cross-border rivers

Dr. Christina Leb

Energy markets – current issues of regulation

Dr. Wolfgang Urbantschitsch, LL.M.

Testing future Societies? Developing a framework for test beds and living labs as instruments of innovation governance

Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Strafbarkeit beim Einsatz autonomer Systeme – Neue Impulse für das Konzept der Fahrlässigkeit?

Prof. Susanne Beck

The Robot Judge: Law, Technology and Historical Patterns of Change

Prof. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde

Distributed Selves: Technology and Rights in the Digital Age

Professor Sheila Jasanoff

Community Mobilization Strategies in Cambodia

Stephan Sonnenberg, JD

The use of interdisciplinarity in solving societal problems – a focus on health

Dr. Amanda Ellison, PAmond Physiology

Advancing the social pillar of sustainability: Insights from the natural resources sector

Prof. William Nikolakis
Resource efficiency as a category of environmental law?
Prof. Dr. Franz Reimer

Bringing the Human back to the Centre of Algorithmic Systems Design. Challenges and Opportunities.

Prof. Claudia Müller-Birn

From the Cloud to the Edge: New Ways for Data Appropriation

Prof. Alain Strowel

Autonomous Cars - A technical Introduction

Prof. Dr. Hermann Winner

Innovation Science: Between Models and Machines

Ass-Prof. Dr. Joakim Juhl

Optmimising the Supply with New Technologies

Dr. Dagmar Kownatka

AlgorithmWatch: What's there to see?

Matthias Spielkamp, MA MA

Answers to climate-induced migration under international law

Prof. Dr. Dirk Hanschel

Reports (PDF) of past lectures: