Academic Session II - Regulating Artificial Intelligence through the European AI Act

  • Panel
  • Le Baixu
  • Friday 23.05 — 08:45 - 10:00

Organising Institution

CPDP

Belgium

  • Academic 5
  • Policy 1
Anna Julia Saiger, University of Freiburg (DE) - Navigating Disruption: the Case of the European AI Act; Rachael Olaitan Aborishade, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (US) - Navigating Transparency Obligations for Companion Chatbots under the European Union AI Act: Evaluation And Policy Directions; Emma Semaan, University of Oxford (UK) - Technical Standards: Co-Regulatory Pathways for Digital Policymaking; Maria-Lucia Rebrean, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Leiden University (NL) - Vulnerability in the AI Act: Building an interpretation

Speaker

Anna-Julia Saiger

University of Freiburg - Germany

Dr. Anna-Julia Saiger is a postdoctoral researcher at Freiburg University (Germany). She received her doctoral degree in law from Humboldt University Berlin and an LL.M. from King’s College, London. Her current research focuses the regulation of private power with regard to major constitutional challenges posed by the digital revolution and the triple planetary crisis. Anna-Julia Saiger currently leads an interdisciplinary research group at Freiburg University's Comp.AI initiative. This group brings together scholars from philosophy, political science, psychology, and law to collaboratively map and analyse various approaches to AI regulation.

Speaker

Rachael Olaitan Aborishade

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy - United States

Rachael Olaitan Aborishade is a lawyer, Fellow at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP), and legal intern at UNIDROIT, where she supports the Secretariat’s work on Compliance with International Commercial Law Treaties on Digital Assets. Early in her career, she completed an LL.M in International Technology Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, authoring academic papers on AI governance, data protection, and platformisation. Her work embodies a commitment to tackling the legal and ethical complexities of the digital age, reflecting her ambition to shape global technology law. Complementing her studies and her contextual, functional view of law, Rachael volunteers at the Institute of Privacy by Design, Plunk Foundation, and Privacy Hub Africa, and she is the founder of the Golden Whispers Charity Foundation, which focuses on charity, education, and advocacy. She actively advocates for the data privacy rights of marginalized communities, including children, women, and veterans, through legal advocacy, privacy design programs, research, and regulatory analysis.

Speaker

Emma Semaan

University of Oxford - United Kingdom

Emma Semaan is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her research primarily focuses on digital privacy and the regulation of internet technologies from a holistic and comparative perspective. Before her time at Oxford, Emma lived and worked in Washington, DC. She occasionally returns to DC to work with rights-focused non-profit organizations, where she contributes her expertise on privacy and digital technologies to work towards policies that facilitate better protections for citizens online.

Speaker

Maria-Lucia Rebrean

Leiden University - Netherlands

Maria-Lucia Rebrean is a PhD researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, where she investigates the impact of artificial intelligence systems on individual experiences of (human) vulnerability and the rule of law. Her work is part of RESOCIAL, an interdisciplinary research project that uses a participatory approach to explores the impact of digital technologies on human vulnerability and assesses the adequacy of current legal protections.