Workshop organized by Henrik Palmer Olsen, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Copenhagen Law School (UCPH) and 2023-2024 research-fellow at the Paris IAS, and Mathilde Cohen, Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut and 2024-2025 research-fellow at the Paris IAS, to mark the launch of the LEXplain project.

On site workshop, open by invitation only.
Event in English.

Presentation 

The event is a workshop to discuss about AI and justificatory explanations for legal decisions. The workshop is a kickoff event for a research project that 2023-2024 IAS Fellow Henrik Palmer Olsen has acquired funding for through the Norwegian Research Council (entitled LEXplain). The research relates to and continues work he did during his stay at the Paris IAS. For the event Parisian researchers with an interest in the field of law and AI will be invited to discuss the theme on the background of a working paper developed by the core research team in the LEXplain project

Program

10.30am – 11am: LEXplain: background and research agenda 
11am - 11.20am: Presentation of Working paper (distributed in advance) 
11.20am - 12pm: Commentary and discussion 
12pm - 12.10pm: Break
12.10pm - 1pm: Roundtable reflections on AI and justificatory explanations for legal decisions (All)
1pm - 2pm: Lunch break
2pm - 4pm: Internal LEXplain session: processing input and preparing further work on WP and next steps

Participants

LEXplain team:

Henrik Palmer Olsen (Law) – University of Copenhagen and Bergen
Ragna Aarli (Law) - University of Bergen
Synne Mæhle (Law) – University of Bergen
Thomas Hildebrandt (Computer Science) – University of Copenhagen
Aysel Kucuksu (postdoc, Law) – University of Copenhagen
Paul Cosma (postdoc, Computer Science) – University of Copenhagen
Jennifer Raso (Law – advisory board) – McGill University
Christoffer Eriksen (Law – advisory board) – Oslo University

Paris based guests:

Lionel Zevounou (Law) – Universite de Nanterre
Pierre Brunet (Law) – Universite de Sorbonne
Raphaelle Xenidis (Political Science) – Sciences Po
Jean Lassegue (Social Science) - EHESS
Delphine Dogot (Law) - Universite Catholique de Lille