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Course

Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence

3 ECTS

Date:  11-13 October 2027
Location: Uppsala University
Course coordinator: Lianne Colonna, Stockholm University, Katja de Vries, Uppsala University, Matilda Arvidsson, Gothenburg University, Ana Nordberg, Lund University.
Registration: Closed on August 31, 2027
Student limit: Max 30 students

 

Course information (from 2025! Will be updated!)

Every student should select four specialization topics when signing up for the course. Students are also welcome to make a recommendation. We cannot guarantee that your recommended topic will be discussed but we will do our best! 

Potential “specialization topics”
  • Generative AI and academic work
  • Standardization
  • Security
  • Open source
  • Cyber security
  • Data protection
  • AI and the public sector
  • AI in health
  • AI in education
  • AI and agency
  • AI and environmental law
  • AI and colonialism
  • Predictive policing
  • Evidentiary issues in AI
Assignment
  • Read eight articles in advance of the course based on eight selected “specialization topics” (announced at least a month in advance)
  • Hand in a one-page (max 400) word pitch of the legal aspects of your project

 

Exam

  • Students will be asked to present the legal aspects of their work during the course (based on their one page-text) + give feedback to another paper. Instructors will provide oral feedback.
  • Students should elaborate their one-page pitches into a five page text (max 2000 words), based on the oral comments received during the course.
    Schedule Day 1

    9:00-11:00: Crash course on AI and Law (all four of us, lecture format)

    11-12: Teamwork (TBD)

    12-13: Lunch

    13:00-15:00: Specialization topics 1-4 (the whole group is divided in two rooms based on selected “specialization topics”)(two teachers are in each room and we will cover two specialization topics in each room re: we will discuss four articles in each room)

    Coffee 15:00-15:30

    15:30- 18:00: The first half of the students pitch the legal aspects of their work (we remain in our specialization topic group re: we are in two rooms)

     

    Schedule Day 2

    9:00-11:00: the second half of the student pitch the legal aspects of their work (the group is divided into two rooms)

    11-12: Teamwork (TBD)

    12-13: Lunch

    13-15: Specialisation topics 4-8

    15-15:30: Coffee

    15:30-18: Reconvene altogether for a group discussion and summing up