Introduction to Law and Informatics – A DataLEASH Approach
Let’s welcome Professor Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, Subject Director of Law and Informatics at Stockholm University. She was awarded a LL.D. degree in 1992, with a doctoral thesis addressing legal automation, especially about the computerisation in public administration. Legal implications of e-government remain as one of her major fields of work.
Date and time: 17 November 2020, 3-4pm
Speaker: Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg
Title: Introduction to Law and Informatics – A DataLEASH Approach
Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67432682790?pwd=dVgzbjRSbUVFT2FOYTByYlZrTU9BUT09
Meeting ID: 674 3268 2790
Password: DF2020
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Abstract: The seminar will introduce the interdisciplinary field of law and informatics and how the interplay may both support and challenge the rule of law. There is no doubt that ICT has an impact on legal infrastructures that calls for attention from both legal scholars and computer scientists. Critical factors that in particular are relevant concern when (a) ICT become subject to regulation, (b) ICT function as a legally oriented steering mechanism, (c) ICT is a lever for internationalisation of law, and last but not the least, (d) ICT is a fundamental tool in legal work. A topical area that will be commented on has to do with how the legal field approach algorithms and associated models from the point of view of AI and machine learning.
During the seminar the on-going research project DataLEASH will be presented briefly from a legal point of view. The acronym stands for Learning and Sharing under Privacy constraints (DataLEASH) opening up for letting law play a proactive role instead of the traditional reactive one when matters already have gone wrong. In this context the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires attention, in particular Article 5 (principles relating to processing of personal data) and Article 25 (data protection by design and by default).
Bio: Professor Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg is Subject Director of Law and Informatics at Stockholm University. She was awarded a LL.D. degree in 1992, with a doctoral thesis addressing legal automation, especially about the computerisation in public administration. Legal implications of e-government remain as one of her major fields of work. In addition to substantive components of IT Law in terms of rule interpretation and application in digital environments she has had many years of experience of legal system design and management, giving rise to issues concerning privacy protection, information security etc. Mention should also be made of her participation in a wide variety of national and international research projects. Furthermore, she is engaged by the Swedish government in public inquires about e.g. personal data processing for research purposes and how to legally facilitate the digitalisation of the public sector.