HT2024

The reading list will be updated with further course literature.

OBLIGATORY READING

• Binns, Reuben; Veale, Michael, Is that your final decision? Multi-stage profiling, selective effects, and Article 22 of the GDPR, Part of: International Data Privacy Law, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, p. pp. 12–30 and p. 44–52Compulsory*
• Codagnone, C.; Liva, G.; Rodriguez De Las Heras Ballell, T., Identification and assessment of existing and draft EU legislation in the digital field, The European Parliament, 2022Compulsory*
• De Vries, Katja; Dahlberg, Mattias, De lege 2021: Law, AI and Digitalization, Iustus förlag, Uppsala, 2022Compulsory*
• De Vries, Katja, Let the robot speak! AI-generated speech and freedom of expression, Part of: YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2020, uuuu-uuuu, vol. IICompulsory*
• de Vries, Katja, Transparent Dreams (Are Made of This): Counterfactuals as Transparency Tools in ADM, 2021Compulsory*
• Hildebrandt, Mireille, 10.3 `Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'?, Part of: Law for computer scientists and other folk, First edition., Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2020, p. pp. 267–270Compulsory*
• Hildebrandt, Mireille, Section 5.5, "Data Protection Law, Part of: Law for computer scientists and other folk, First edition., Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2020, p. pp. 133–160Compulsory*
• Hildebrandt, Mireille, Section 10.3.3.3, "Automated decisions", Part of: Law for computer scientists and other folk, First edition., Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2020, p. pp. 273–277Compulsory*
• Lessig, Lawrence, Code: version 2.0: What things regulate, Part of: Code: Version 2.0, New York, Basic Books, cop. 2006, p. pp. 120–130 and Appendix pp. 340–345Compulsory*
• Shane, Janelle, You look like a thing and I love you: how artificial intelligence works and why it's making the world a weirder place, First edition, New York, Voracious/Little, Brown and Company, 2019Compulsory*
• Trapova, Alina; Mezei, Péter, Robojournalism - A Copyright Study on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the European News Industry, Part of: GRUR International: Journal of European and International IP Law, 2022Compulsory*
• Veale, M.; Borgesius, F. Z., Demystifying the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act—Analysing the good, the bad, and the unclear elements of the proposed approach., Part of: Computer law review international, vol. 22, no. 4, 2021, p. 97–112Compulsory*
• Wachter, Sandra, Counterfactual explanations without opening the black box: automated decisions and the GDPR., Part of: Harvard journal of law & technology, vol. 31, no. 2, 2018, p. 842–861Compulsory*

OBLIGATORY READINGS - LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE CENTRAL IN THIS COURSE

• European Comission, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European data governance (Data Governance Act) COM/2020/767 final, European Comission, Brussels, 2020Compulsory*
• European Comission, : Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data, COM(2022) 68 final, European Comission, Brussels, 2022Compulsory*
• European Comission, European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union legislative acts (COM(2021) 206 final), European Comission, Brussels, 2021Compulsory*
• Council of the European Union, Council of the European Union, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union legislative acts, 2021/0106(COD) - Presidency compromise text, Council of the European Union, 2021Compulsory*
• EUR-Lex Access to European Union Law, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), European Union, 2016Compulsory*
• Bruno, Debaenst, De lege 2021: Law, AI and Digitalization, Iustus förlag, Uppsala, 2022

SOME WEBSITES THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED DURING THE COURSE (OBLIGATORY)

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-europe-fit-for-the-digital-age/file-data-governance-act

GENERAL BACKGROUND READING OPTIONAL

• Hildebrandt, Mireille, Law for computer scientists and other folk, First edition., Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2020

RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL READINGS

• de Vries, Katja; Hildebrandt, Mireille, The parable of the three robotic dogs, Part of: Privacy, due process and the computational turn: the philosophy of law meets the philosophy of technology, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, p. 9–11
• de Vries, Katja; Hildebrandt, Mireille, Epistemology: perception by humans/perception by machines, Part of: Privacy, due process and the computational turn: the philosophy of law meets the philosophy of technology, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, p. 19–21
• de Vries, Katja; Hildebrandt, Mireille, The moral of the "parable of the three robotic dogs", Part of: Privacy, due process and the computational turn: the philosophy of law meets the philosophy of technology, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, p. 26–29
• First part in the Elements of AI-course, Reaktor, University of Helsinki
• Introduction to computer science, CS50, for lawyers and law students, Harvard University

* Compulsory