Big Data:
New Challenges for Law and Ethics
International scientific conference
22 - 23 May 2017
Ljubljana, Slovenia
22 - 23 May 2017
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia 22 - 23 May 2017 |
Keynote speakers
“Big Data” is a phrase that has been used pervasively by the media and the lay public in the last several years. Amongst many other fields, social control and crime control in particular have become one of the key emerging use cases of big data. For example, police predictive software produce probability reports on criminality and assure us that by using this, societies will reduce crime. Other programs are looking for patterns that would help us predict a terrorist attack. Criminal justice systems are using technological solution too, for instance, to predict future crimes of those applying for bail or those to be sent on a parole. Underlying these and many other potential uses of big data in crime control, however, are a series of legal and ethical challenges relating to, among other things to privacy, discrimination, and presumption of innocence.
The leading questions the conference speaker will tackle are:
We invite paper proposals from scholars across the social sciences and humanities studying big data challenges for law and ethics.
Themes of interest include (tentative list):
Please submit proposals for papers (300 words) with your name, address and affiliation by February 28, 2017 to EasyChair. Extended: by March 20, 2017.
Participants will be notified by March 31, 2017.
The conference is organized within the research project »Law in the age of big data: Regulating privacy, transparency, secrecy and other competing values in the 21st century« carried out at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana and Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana, and coordinated by Assoc. Professor Aleš Završnik. It is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
Venue
Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana,
Poljanski nasip 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Chair of the Program Committee
Aleš Završnik, LL.D., Assoc. Professor
Program Committee
Organising Committee
Contact
Aleš Završnik, LL.D., Assist. Prof., E: ales.zavrsnik@pf.uni-lj.si
Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, E: inst.crim@pf.uni-lj.si
Conference fees
Participants of the conference, i.e. speakers and delegates not presenting a paper, have to pay a conference fee; unless invited or students (in the latter case, please provide proof).
The following conference fees apply:
Delegates and students can register via e-mail: inst.crim@pf.uni-lj.si
Please pay by bank transfer to IBAN: SI56 0201 4025 3359 987, SWIFT/BIC: LJBASI2X (Nova ljubljanska banka d.d., Trg republike 2, 1520 Ljubljana, Slovenija). Account holder: Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. You agree that your personal data will be collected and processed for the conference purposes. The bank transfer is the only payment method available. At the conference, you must provide the proof of payment.
* Changes to the program can be made in the run-up to the conference. All the changes will be displayed in the program published on the conference web page. The organizers shall not be liable for any loss, liability, damage or expenses suffered or incurred by any person due to the changes.
Please circulate widely.
Getting there and away
Airport Ljubljana
The nearest airport to Ljubljana is Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana, also known as Letališče Brnik http://www.lju-airport.si/eng. The airport is located about 20 km north from Ljubljana. The most convenient transportation from the airport to any of the hotels in Ljubljana is by a shuttle for 9 €/one way. The shuttle bus waits outside the airport building and will take you to your hotel. Other options are bus, taxi or car rental.
Train
Ljubljana is accessible by train from several directions. The main train station is located 15 min by foot to the majority of the hotels in the Ljubljana centre. For train timetables, please visit Slovenske zeleznice.
Car
Ljubljana is located at the crossroads of the country's most important road routes. The purchase of a vignette is obligatory if motorways are to be used. Weekly vignette costs 15 EUR.
General
For travelling with city (local) buses the traveler needs URBANA card. Please see the link for more information http://www.jhl.si/en/lpp . All the mayor buses have stops in the centre of the city and near by Faculty of Law.
If you prefer bicycle more, you can use Bicike(LJ) self-service bicycle hire scheme which consists of 30 docking stations located within the greater Ljubljana city centre area. For more info, please visit http://en.bicikelj.si/Subscribe.
About Ljubljana
For information about Ljubljana, its history, surroundings and events taking place during your visit, please see http://www.visitljubljana.com/en/ and http://www.visitljubljana.com/en/ljubljana-and-central-slovenia/ljubljana-tourist-card/.
Hotels
As it is seen from the map the Faculty of Law is situated on the bank of the Ljubljanica river which flows through the city centre. The vicinity of the green market with its imposingness colonnade, old baroque core beneath the slopes of the Castle Hill, countless shops and coffee bars make the area one of the most popular in the city. Majority of the sight seeings are in a walking distance of five to fifteen minutes.
Hotel Emonec offers special discounted rates for all the participants of the conference. Prices per person per night are as follows (breakfast included):
59 EUR (single room),
64 EUR (double room for one person only),
36 EUR (double room for two persons).
To assure special rates participants should make a reservation via email hotelemonec@siol.net and state the name of the conference: Big Data: New Challenges for Law and Ethics.
Hotel Slon http://www.hotelslon.com/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 10 min walking distance to the conference venue
Hotel Union http://www.gh-union.si/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 8 min walking distance to the conference venue
Hotel Park http://www.hotelpark.si/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 8 min walking distance to the conference venue
City Hotel http://www.cityhotel.si/cms/index.xhtml
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 10 min walking distance to the conference venue
H2OSTEL http://www.h2ohostel.com/
Location: Ljubljana city, 2 min walking distance to conference venue
Hotel Emonec http://www.hotel-emonec.com/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 8 min walking distance to the conference venue
Alibi Hostel http://www.alibi.si/
Location: Ljubljana city, 12 min walking distance to the conference venue
Hotel Meksiko http://www.hotel-meksiko.si/home
Location: Ljubljana city, 15 min walking distance to the conference venue
- Dean Wilson, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Nadya Purtova, TILT, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Joanna J. Bryson, University of Bath, UK, and affil. at The Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, USA
- Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Tjerk Timan, TILT/ University of Tilburg
- Alexander Czadilek, Christof Tschohl and Walter Hötzendorfer, epicenter.works, Research Institute Vienna
- Renata Salecl, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Slovenia
- Aleš Završnik, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Slovenia
“Big Data” is a phrase that has been used pervasively by the media and the lay public in the last several years. Amongst many other fields, social control and crime control in particular have become one of the key emerging use cases of big data. For example, police predictive software produce probability reports on criminality and assure us that by using this, societies will reduce crime. Other programs are looking for patterns that would help us predict a terrorist attack. Criminal justice systems are using technological solution too, for instance, to predict future crimes of those applying for bail or those to be sent on a parole. Underlying these and many other potential uses of big data in crime control, however, are a series of legal and ethical challenges relating to, among other things to privacy, discrimination, and presumption of innocence.
The leading questions the conference speaker will tackle are:
- how the operations of society, political systems, and, in particular, social control and crime control, is changing due to large data bases and algorithmic data mining and predicting powers?
- Will computers decide who to prosecute and who should be sent to jail?
- Which programmes and systems of algorithmic predictions are already in place in the criminal justice systems around the globe?
- Why this can be dangerous in terms of fundamental human rights and fundamental principles of democratic societies?
- Is the new GDPR a suitable framework for »algocracy«, i.e. rule by the algorithm?
- How can we propose solutions that may not hinder the development of the technology, but enable more nuanced, ethically and legally sound solutions to be developed in the future?
We invite paper proposals from scholars across the social sciences and humanities studying big data challenges for law and ethics.
Themes of interest include (tentative list):
- big data and crime control
- predictive policing
- automated justice
- big data and discrimination
- big data and social sorting
- ethical dilemmas and predictive analytics
- big data and international law
- big data and personal data protection law
- big data and cyber espionage
- big data and citizen empowerment
Please submit proposals for papers (300 words) with your name, address and affiliation by February 28, 2017 to EasyChair. Extended: by March 20, 2017.
Participants will be notified by March 31, 2017.
The conference is organized within the research project »Law in the age of big data: Regulating privacy, transparency, secrecy and other competing values in the 21st century« carried out at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana and Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana, and coordinated by Assoc. Professor Aleš Završnik. It is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
Venue
Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana,
Poljanski nasip 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Chair of the Program Committee
Aleš Završnik, LL.D., Assoc. Professor
Program Committee
- Professor Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
- Professor Renata Salecl, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Slovenia
- Professor Katja Šugman Stubbs, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Associate Professor Primož Gorkič, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organising Committee
- mag. Maruša Veber
- mag. Maša Kovič-Dine
- dr. Mojca M. Plesničar
- Katja Simončič, Junior Researcher
- Miha Hafner, Junior Researcher
Contact
Aleš Završnik, LL.D., Assist. Prof., E: ales.zavrsnik@pf.uni-lj.si
Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, E: inst.crim@pf.uni-lj.si
Conference fees
Participants of the conference, i.e. speakers and delegates not presenting a paper, have to pay a conference fee; unless invited or students (in the latter case, please provide proof).
The following conference fees apply:
- full pass - speakers: 100 EUR
- full pass - delegates (not presenting a paper): 70 EUR
- full pass - VIPs (invited, upon an appointment): FREE
- students: free of charge (proof must be provided)
Delegates and students can register via e-mail: inst.crim@pf.uni-lj.si
Please pay by bank transfer to IBAN: SI56 0201 4025 3359 987, SWIFT/BIC: LJBASI2X (Nova ljubljanska banka d.d., Trg republike 2, 1520 Ljubljana, Slovenija). Account holder: Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. You agree that your personal data will be collected and processed for the conference purposes. The bank transfer is the only payment method available. At the conference, you must provide the proof of payment.
* Changes to the program can be made in the run-up to the conference. All the changes will be displayed in the program published on the conference web page. The organizers shall not be liable for any loss, liability, damage or expenses suffered or incurred by any person due to the changes.
Please circulate widely.
Getting there and away
Airport Ljubljana
The nearest airport to Ljubljana is Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana, also known as Letališče Brnik http://www.lju-airport.si/eng. The airport is located about 20 km north from Ljubljana. The most convenient transportation from the airport to any of the hotels in Ljubljana is by a shuttle for 9 €/one way. The shuttle bus waits outside the airport building and will take you to your hotel. Other options are bus, taxi or car rental.
Train
Ljubljana is accessible by train from several directions. The main train station is located 15 min by foot to the majority of the hotels in the Ljubljana centre. For train timetables, please visit Slovenske zeleznice.
Car
Ljubljana is located at the crossroads of the country's most important road routes. The purchase of a vignette is obligatory if motorways are to be used. Weekly vignette costs 15 EUR.
General
For travelling with city (local) buses the traveler needs URBANA card. Please see the link for more information http://www.jhl.si/en/lpp . All the mayor buses have stops in the centre of the city and near by Faculty of Law.
If you prefer bicycle more, you can use Bicike(LJ) self-service bicycle hire scheme which consists of 30 docking stations located within the greater Ljubljana city centre area. For more info, please visit http://en.bicikelj.si/Subscribe.
About Ljubljana
For information about Ljubljana, its history, surroundings and events taking place during your visit, please see http://www.visitljubljana.com/en/ and http://www.visitljubljana.com/en/ljubljana-and-central-slovenia/ljubljana-tourist-card/.
Hotels
As it is seen from the map the Faculty of Law is situated on the bank of the Ljubljanica river which flows through the city centre. The vicinity of the green market with its imposingness colonnade, old baroque core beneath the slopes of the Castle Hill, countless shops and coffee bars make the area one of the most popular in the city. Majority of the sight seeings are in a walking distance of five to fifteen minutes.
Hotel Emonec offers special discounted rates for all the participants of the conference. Prices per person per night are as follows (breakfast included):
59 EUR (single room),
64 EUR (double room for one person only),
36 EUR (double room for two persons).
To assure special rates participants should make a reservation via email hotelemonec@siol.net and state the name of the conference: Big Data: New Challenges for Law and Ethics.
Hotel Slon http://www.hotelslon.com/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 10 min walking distance to the conference venue
Hotel Union http://www.gh-union.si/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 8 min walking distance to the conference venue
Hotel Park http://www.hotelpark.si/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 8 min walking distance to the conference venue
City Hotel http://www.cityhotel.si/cms/index.xhtml
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 10 min walking distance to the conference venue
H2OSTEL http://www.h2ohostel.com/
Location: Ljubljana city, 2 min walking distance to conference venue
Hotel Emonec http://www.hotel-emonec.com/
Location: Ljubljana city centre, 8 min walking distance to the conference venue
Alibi Hostel http://www.alibi.si/
Location: Ljubljana city, 12 min walking distance to the conference venue
Hotel Meksiko http://www.hotel-meksiko.si/home
Location: Ljubljana city, 15 min walking distance to the conference venue
