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AI & Law

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how decisions are made by governments, courts, companies and individuals. This dossier examines the legal frameworks that govern AI development and deployment, from the EU AI Act to liability, privacy and fundamental rights. How does the law keep pace with a technology that moves faster than legislation?

Blogs

(A)I made it, and you should know!

Would you rather watch a movie marked with a ‘No AI’ label or one without, or do you want to know if a book was written by AI? How, if at all, should we show something was made by a human or by AI?

Daria Morozova • April 23, 2026

Erasing personal data in an AI era

Can inaccurate personal data produced by AI be deleted? As the right of erasure evolves in the AI era, legal and technical challenges are growing.

Helena Vrabec • October 02, 2025

A case of ‘AI hallucination’ in the air

How can a few unreported court cases that no lawyer has ever heard of, cause so much trouble and become so infamous?

Benjamyn Scott • August 07, 2023

The draft AI Act and children: Room for improvement

In 2021 a draft AI Act was published. At the moment, the draft AI Act is before the European Parliament (EP) as part of the European AI package.

Simone van der Hof and Gianclaudio Malgieri • July 22, 2022 • 1 comment

Would you rather be sentenced by a human or a machine?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and in the future its impact on human life will only increase. What role can AI have in sentencing criminal cases? Can AI replace human judges in meting out punishment?

Sigrid van Wingerden and Mojca Plesničar • June 27, 2022

AI in the EU and Access to Justice – A Panel Discussion

Automation may endanger fundamental values in the EU. In a panel discussion on 28 January 2022, experts discussed how the use of AI by the EU administration affects individuals’ access to justice.

Sophie van der Kroon and Melanie Fink • March 03, 2022

Growing up with AI

UNICEF released a policy guidance draft on AI for children. This piece comments on it and stresses the need for a more precautionary and children-centred approach to such policy discussion.

Simone van der Hof and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga • October 20, 2020 • 2 comments

The fallacy of reactive regulation: AI bias as an unchecked tool of systemic oppression

The rapid integration of new artificial intelligence systems into our lives has raised a number of grave human rights concerns. A proactive regulatory framework is necessary to address the potential for profuse systemic bias in these systems.

Waruguru Gaitho • January 08, 2020 • 1 comment