DAY 1 – 30 OCTOBER 2025
9:00 – 9:30 am
Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 am
Welcome and Opening Speech
Oreste Pollicino Bocconi University
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
PROTECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
Chair
Marco Bassini TILT Centre, Tilburg University
Testing the Limits: Top-Down AI Misuse and the ECJ Scrutiny of the EU AI Act
Federica Fedorczyk Oxford University (Institute for Ethics in AI)
The Rule of Law and the architecture of the ‘systemic’ and ‘high’ risk in the Digital Services Act and AI Act
Maciej Otmianowski, Simone Casiraghi, Niels van Dijk, and Gianmarco Gori Vrije Universiteit Brusse
Rhetorical Machines: Automated Stochastic Reasoning for Human Rights Adjudication
Lorenzo Gradoni Luxembourg University
Strategic Digital Constitutionalism: Lessons From Past Constitutional Struggles
Borja Sánchez Barroso University of Valencia
Pixels of Power: Deepfakes, Regulatory Uncertainty, and the Path Toward Accountability in the EU AI Framework
T.N.A. Nguyen University of Padua
T. Navdarashvili University of Milan
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Protection of Fundamental Rights and Liability Issues
Giorgia Vulpiani University of Macerata
Debate
Lunch break
2:00 – 4:30 pm
JUSTICE, ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES
Chair
Deirdre Curtin European University Institute
Effective Human Oversight of Judicial Decision Support Systems
Giovana Peluso Lopes TILT Centre, Tilburg University
Automation as Delegation of Power: Constitutional Constraints on AI Systems for the Administration of Justice
Irina Carnat Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Extrajudicial and Judicial Remedies in Algorithm-Assisted Decision-Making: The Case of EU IT Systems for Migracon and
Security
Alexandra Karaiskou European University Institute
Niovi Vavoula University of Luxembourg
AI in Judicial Decision-Making: A Theoretical Framework Based on the Fact-Law Dichotomy
Qin Sky Ma Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
"New Order" or "Glorious Chaos"? Supervisory Authorities in Complex Systems of Fundamental Rights Protection in the Digital Era
Katarzyna Łakomiec Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Coffee break
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Keynote Speech
Lucilla Sioli Director for “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry”, Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission
Roundtable
Deirdre Curtin
Marco Bassini
Giovanni De Gregorio
DAY 2 – 31 OCTOBER 2025
9:00 – 9:30 am
Breakfast
9:30 am– 12:00 pm
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POWERS
Chair
Giovanni De Gregorio Catolica Global Law School
Meta Oversight Board’s Nascent Standard on Hate Speech: Toward Plural Standard Setting in International Human Rights Law
Bilyana Petkova University of National and World Economy in Sofia
Risky Interpretations of Article 22 GDPR: The Dutch DPA’s Problematic View on Risk Profiling and European Fundamental Rights
Fatma Çapkurt Leiden University
Too Soon to Regulate, Too Late to Remedy? Ex Ante and Ex Post Enforcement in AI-Driven Platform Governance
Giorgio Pedrazzi University of Brescia
Balancing Honour and Expression: Personality Rights, Platform Governance, and the Challenge of Virality
Inês Neves University of Porto and CIJ – Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice
Remedies and Review Procedures of Public Procurement Contracts in the Era of Decisions Adopted by AI or Algorithms -
The Elephant in the Room?
Andrei Toca Bolyai University, Faculty of Law
Censorship by Proxy? The Digital Services Act, Platform Power, and the Future of Free Speech
Dominika Kuźnicka-Błaszkowska University of Wroclaw
12:00 – 12.30 pm
Project’s presentation
Federica Paolucci Bocconi University
Light Lunch
2:00 – 4:30 pm
INTERSECTIONS AND CHALLENGES
Chair
Federica Paolucci Bocconi University
Artificial Intelligence and Suptech: Challenges and the Road Ahead for Financial Authorities
Filippo Annunziata Bocconi University
Decision Boundaries in Automated Taxation
Katerina Pantazatou and Marco Almada Luxembourg University
Healthcare, Rights and Remedies in the Blockchain Ecosystem
Alessandra Dignani University of Macerata
A Challenge for a Primavera Digitale: Human Rights Theory Confronts the "Phantom Influence" of Artificial Intelligence Systems
Elif Biber University of Luxembourg
Multilevel Constitutionalism in the Age of AI: The EU-Asia Divide in Rights Protection Frameworks
Yi-Li Lee National Tsing Hua University
Kuan-Wei Chen Kyoto University
Experimental Regulation Under EU Constitutional Scrutiny: Balancing Transparency and Confidentiality in Regulatory Sandboxes for AI
Marco Billi and Silvia Rizzuto Ferruzza University of Bologna
Coffee break
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Keynote Speech
Guido Scorza Italian Data Protection Authority
Concluding Remarks
Oreste Pollicino
