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The EU and the Future of Regulating AI

Mar•5•26

4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Charles River Room, Fifth Floor
Thursday, March 5th 

Join Professor Woodrow Hartzog and Dr. Céline Castets-Renard the Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence (University of Ottawa) for a discussion on AI regulation in the European Union.

While the European Union is the first jurisdiction in the world to have adopted comprehensive and ambitious legislation to regulate AI (AI Act) in 2024, the current geopolitical situation driven by the United States does not encourage the adoption of such laws elsewhere. Furthermore, the European Union is facing external and internal pressure from certain stakeholders to reduce the burden and cost of its digital laws. The European Commission has responded with “digital omnibus regulation proposals”, including AI, to simplify or even lighten the rules.

In this complex and unstable context: what does the future hold for AI regulation in Europe and elsewhere?

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Woodrow Hartzog

Woodrow Hartzog

Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law

Woodrow Hartzog

Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law
Professor Hartzog is internationally recognized for his work in privacy and technology law. His research focuses on personal data and the design of technologies and has been published in numerous scholarly publications such as the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and California Law Review and popular publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Professor Hartzog has testified multiple times before Congress on data privacy issues and served as a commissioner on the Massachusetts Special Commission on Facial Recognition. He is the author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, published in 2018 by Harvard University Press, and the co-author of Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press (with Daniel Solove). Professor Hartzog is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a Non-resident Fellow at The Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University, an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and an External Affiliate of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University. Professor Hartzog serves on the advisory board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Future of Privacy Forum. Before joining Boston University School of Law, Professor Hartzog was a Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University’s School of Law and Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Starnes Professor of Law at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. Professor Hartzog has also served as a Visiting Professor at Notre Dame Law School and the University of Maine School of Law. He previously worked as an attorney in private practice and as a trademark attorney for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He also served as a clerk for the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Dr. Céline Castets-Renard

Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence; Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section

Dr. Céline Castets-Renard

Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence; Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section
  • Dr. Céline Castets-Renard is the Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence, and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa (see website: https://www.uottawa.ca/recherche-innovation/centre-droit-technologie-societe/personnes/castets-renard-celine). Dr. Céline Castets-Renard also holds the Research Chair in AI Law and Governance in a Global Economy at ANITI (Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANR AI Cluster)). She is an Honorary Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) (2015-2019) and an affiliate of the Yale Internet Society Project. She is also a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Céline Castets-Renard was Vice-Chair (Copyright) of the Working Group on transparency and copyright-related rules to lead the development of the European Union AI Office’s first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (2024-2025). She also was an expert member of the European Commission's Observatory on the Economics of Online Platforms (2021-2023). Dr.  Castets-Renard's research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) from an international and comparative law perspective - mainly the European Union, Canada and the United States. She is an expert in AI law, personal data law, digital copyright law and platform regulation. She is also more broadly interested in the impact of technologies on human rights, equity and social justice, and studies gender issues in technologies. She has written over a hundred articles and contributions to conference proceedings, 2 monographs, 3 textbooks, and edited or co-edited 4 books. Before joining the University of Ottawa in 2019, Dr. Castets-Renard was a Associate Professor and then a Professor at the Université Toulouse Capitole (2002-2019). She was a Associate Professor at the Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie (2010-2011), where she conducted research on the protection of indigenous traditional knowledge and intellectual property. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School (2017-2019), as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Internet Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School (2018-2019). She has been a visiting professor at several universities around the world, including Fordham Law School University, Washington University in Saint Louis, China University of Political Science and Law, Osaka University, University of Rikkyo, Hanoi University, University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis (Senegal), University TEC Monterrey in Mexico, University Carlos III de Madrid, University Laval in Quebec. She holds a PhD in copyright law from Université Paris Saclay (2001), a Master on IP/IT Law from Université de Montpellier (1998) and a master's degree in business law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1996). She is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1994-1998) and “agrégée du secondaire” in law, economics and management (1997).

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