Sofia Public Law Talks lecture series - "Human rights in Algorithmic Administration"

University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Faculty of Law invites you to the next lecture of the Sofia Public Law Talks lecture series. Sofia Public Law Talks started in 2020 as a forum for promotion of the exchange of critical and innovative ideas on topical issues of contemporary public law. It is organized by Prof. Dr. Martin Belov, vice dean of the University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Faculty of Law.

This lecture is also part of the Master Program ‘Human Rights Protection’ lecture series.

Alessandro Puzzanghera is a PhD student at the University for foreigners “Dante Alighieri” in Reggio Calabria. He worked many years as legal assistant at the FIDLAW LLP a law firm in London. He successfully completed her studies in the Master of Studies (MSt) postgraduate level degree program of the European Law and Governance School at the European Public Law Organization in Athens. His fields of research include: Artificial Intelligence, Administrative law, Personal Data in particular about GDPR.

The presentation of Alessandro Puzzanghera will be based on his chapter with the same title that has been recently published in Belov, M. The IT Revolution and its Impact on State, Constitutionalism and Public Law, Oxford, Hart, 2021, available at: https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/the-it-revolution-and-its-impact-on-state-constitutionalism-and-public-law-9781509940875/

Moderator and discussant of the lecture will be Prof. Dr. Martin Belov.

Here is the brief summary of the lecture kindly provided by Alessandro Puzzanghera:

Currently we are witnessing the development and spread of technology in our lives that is also massively impacting our legal and political orders. More precisely, the artificial intelligence is on the rise producing range of issues for constitutional and administrative law in general and for human rights in particular. We are confronted with challenges to public law stemming from this imposing phenomenon. There are ethical and anthropological questions that represent a real change of paradigm, at the bottom of which there could be a new and redesigned idea of humanity. The lecture proposes a debate on the use of artificial intelligence in the administrative sector (from computer used as an archive to a computer capable of making decisions), with particular attention to what are the concepts, principles and standards of legitimacy and control, also wondering about the additional available applications.

You can participate in the lecture by clicking on the following Zoom link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83413191918