1        Introduction The Social Media Tribunal is an initiative of The Court of the Citizens of the World (CCW), and was organized in Berlin from 16-21 March 2025. The Court is a private initiative, with no formal legal authority, whose...

Last week, 10 December 2024, Serge Gijrath died in his sleep. He was a practicing lawyer, but I particularly know him as a bright legal scholar and very nice person. I met him about 20 years ago, as member of...

On 28 June 2024, 12.00 – 13.00 CET, on campus at VU Amsterdam, ALTI is organizing a special edition of the ALTI Talks focused on the AI Act. There have been many valuable debates about what is included in the...

Registrations for our ALTI Summer School are open! Join the 4th Edition of the only Multidisciplinary Summer School focused on the Synergy Artificial Intelligence – Space Law. Dates: 1 – 5 July 2024. Location: Hybrid (on campus at VU Amsterdam...

The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute is proud to co-sponsor a symposium on “Dynamics in Generative AI” edited by Thibault Schrepel (ALTI) and Volker Stocker (Weizenbaum Institute). The symposium will be published in the Network Law Review (whose founder is...

On 16 November 2023, Ioana Bratu, on behalf of Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute, participated at the first space law event organized in Ecuador via a collaboration between Niubox Legal Digital and Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Alongside renowned international...

20 November 2023 15.00-16.00 On November 20th, three visiting researchers from Mexico will present their research project “Science at the frontier: regulating digital environments through legal reasoning, based on AI”.  ALTI will host Dr. Nora del Carmen Osuna Millan, Dr....

AMSTERDAM, 26 October 2023 Dr Mark Leiser from the Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute recently presented a comprehensive analysis on “Dark Patterns Enforcement and the Emerging Digital Design Acquis -Manipulation beneath the Interface” at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority....

On 25 October 2023, Ioana Bratu was invited to present the current status of the AI Act and the AI Liability Directives, at the American Bar Association, International Law Section, National Security Committee. The presentation focused on the risk-based approach...

AMSTERDAM, October 12, 2023 – The Responsible AI Conference, held at the #LAB42 Amsterdam Science Park, witnessed a keynote speech on the 9th of October by Dr Mark Leiser, a leading authority in the field of Digital Legal and Platform...

ALTI’s Dr Mark Leiser gives “Impulse Speech” on Dark Patterns at the 10th Joint ESA Consumer Protection Day at Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain The Museo de Prado in Madrid served as the illustrious backdrop for the 10th Consumer...

ALTI was initiated in approximately 2018 at the Law Faculty of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and its official kickoff meeting was held on November 8, 2021. During the kickoff, I presented a single introductory slide that outlined our progression from the...

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The Dynamic Competition Initiative (supported by ALTI, UC Berkeley, and the EUI) welcomes applications from Ph.D. candidates and post-docs (in economics, law, management, computer and data science…) to join us as a Young Scholar. Benefits 1. Participate in the development...

Join us for a new summer of space law and artificial intelligence! Prepare to witness the fusion of legal expertise and cutting-edge AI & space advancements in an unparalleled academic experience. When: 3-7 July Where: Amsterdam & online (this summer...

A second Expert Workshop brought multidisciplinary experts together to produce interdisciplinary outcomes on the technology proposed EU’s Proposal for a Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. Amy Crocker, Dr Mark Leiser and Dr Sabine Witting, legal academics from...

Overview of the accepted abstracts (with links to the actual abstract) Alessa, Hibah (University of Leeds) and Basu, Subhajit (University of Leeds). Technology and Procedure in Dispute Resolution: A Procedural Model of Reform for Saudi Arabia’s Commercial Courts or Top-Down...

38th Annual BILETA CONFERENCE  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute) and Online Thursday 13th APRIL – Friday 14th APRIL 2023 (The AGM and informal dinner on Wednesday 12 April, end of the afternoon) Cyberlaw: Finally getting its Act(s)...

Online content moderation is a moral minefield, especially when freedom of expression clashes with preventing harm caused by misinformation. A study by a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University of Exeter, Vrije University of...

Amsterdam – A group of academics, lawyers, and scientists have come together to comment on the second UNESCO consultation on a ‘model regulatory framework for the digital content platforms to secure information as a public good’ (the Framework). They will...

Workshop brings multidisciplinary experts together to produce interdisciplinary outcomes on the EU’s Proposal for a Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. Dr Mark Leiser and Dr Sabine Witting, legal academics from the ALTI Center at Vrije University of...

The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute is delighted to introduce a new initiative created and coordinated by Thibault Schrepel, The “Law + Tech Circle”. The Circle is decentralized, across institutions, without top-down management. What: The Circle operates online with the...

On 27th and 30th of January, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will organize an Academic Expert Training – Tax & Technology together with the Antwerp University. The first day will put an emphasis on collecting and processing of tax-data and the...

  The 2nd International Decentralized Governance Design workshop will be organized as a workshop at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE23) in Zaragoza, Spain on June 12, 2023. The organizers are Fadime Kaya and Jaap Gordijn...

The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute is thrilled to be presenting you with the Blockchain Online Course (https://blockchainonlinecourse.org). What’s in it? The blockchain online course is first designed to teach you about blockchain functioning and dynamics. We also cover the...

With an online event held on 23 July, Thibault Schrepel—Associate Professor of Law + Technology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Law School—together with Nicolas Petit, Bo Heiden, and David Teece, launched the Dynamic Competition Initiative (DCI). DCI is a joint venture...

*** ALTI is pleased to present you with our summer recommendations, edition 2022. Enjoy ⛱ *** *** Anna Bon recommends Jacob Boas (ed.), Cultural criticism in the Netherlands 1933-1940 the newspaper columns of Menno ter Braak (2020, Brill): The first...

Each year, the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) is organizing the prestigious Manfred Lachs space law competition, aiming to promote the knowledge of space law among students. This year, ALTI was represented by our colleague, Ioana Bratu (IISL Member),...

On 24 March 2022, University of Indonesia hosted the closing seminar of our capacity-building project, CYBER*: Cyber-Security Education in Indonesia through a Multidisciplinary Approach of Study Programs and Innovative Technologies. The closing seminar followed a successful visit of the representatives of University...

Things happen: I do not have to spell out what happens – you know what I mean. We have to deal with it. Dealing with things happening, let us call that: governance. It is what the Board does in a...

Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-director of the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute, has a new working paper entitled “Complexity-Minded Antitrust“. You can access it freely over https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4050536: Complexity science is widely used across the...

In February 2022, a new ALTI initiative was launched by Ioana Bratu, ALTI Board Member. In an internationally unique setting, the AI ∞ Space Law Society aims to provide a platform for discussions, debates and critical analysis of topics concerning...

We are delighted to be announcing the first ALTI conference entitled “Blockchain + The Law”, to be held on February 3 (online). We have quite a fantastic lineup if you ask us, see for yourself (below), and be sure to...

We are proud and delighted to announce that Dr. Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor at VU Amsterdam and ALTI board member, has published SSRN world’s most downloaded antitrust law article of the year 2021 (see the ranking). You can find the...

In December 2021, a new Galileo launch is scheduled, part of the EU Space Programme. Galileo is the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and is currently being used by more than two billion users worldwide. This is a perfect...

At the initial request of the European Parliament, the European Commission asked Thibault Schrepel to write a report on smart contracts’ legal environment. As it appears, the deployment of smart contracts within the European zone could fluidify economic transactions. It also...

Martien Schaub, a core member of ALTI, recently published ‘Onlineplatformen’. The book (in Dutch) is about the legal aspects relevant to online transaction platforms. These are platforms where users can conclude contracts either with the platform or with other users. The...

E-commerce Yesterday in the Dutch news paper Parool appeared an article about e-commerce fraud, in times of Corona: Na lang wachten kregen ze een plastic prul thuis: ‘Cybermisdaad loont’. The article ends with my sad observation that “Cybercrime does pay”....

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In January 2020, Ioana Bratu co-coordinated the application process for a capacity-building project funded by NUFFIC. The project is developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in collaboration with University of Indonesia and aims to provide solutions...