ZiF Research Group
Economic and Legal Challenges in the Advent of Smart Products
October 2021 – July 2022
Convenors: Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld, GER), Sabine Gless (Basel, SUI), Gerd Muehlheusser (Hamburg, GER)
ZiF Research Group Workshop

Legal Rules in the Age of Smart Products
27 – 29 June 2022
Convenors: Timo Rademacher (Hannover, GER), Thomas Wischmeyer (Bielefeld, GER)
Event Program
Monday, 27 June
12:30 | Registration |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch / Welcome Address |
14:00 – 16:00 | Session 1, Chair: Thomas Wischmeyer |
Jens-Peter Schneider (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany): Platform Regulation as a Central Cornerstone of European AI Governance | |
Susanne Beck (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany): Artificial Intelligence and Meaningful Human Control | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee, Tea & Cake Break |
16:30 – 18:30 | Session 2, Chair: Timo Rademacher |
Daniel Holznagel (Germany): How NetzDG & Co. activated Law-Making towards the DSA | |
Ruth Janal (University of Bayreuth, Germany): Regulating Systemic Platform Risks | |
19:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday, 28 June
10:00 – 11:00 | Session 3, Chair: Herbert Dawid |
Johann Laux (Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom): Governance of Emerging Technologies and EU Law: A Legal Limit to Personalisation and A Novel Metric for Its Implementation | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee & Tea Break |
11:30 – 12:30 | Session 4, Chair: Gerd Muehlheusser |
Sharon Di (Columbia University, USA), Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld University, Germany), Peter Kort (Tilburg University, Netherlands), Gerd Muehlheusser (University of Hamburg, Germany): Autonomous Vehicles: Mixed Traffic, Vehicle Choice, Safety Investments, and Product Liability | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 – 16:00 | Session 5, Chair: Sabine Gless |
Klaus Heine (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands): Human Rights, Legal Personality and Artificial Intelligence – What can we learn from Epistemology and Moral Philosophy? | |
Franz Hofmann (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Online Discourses and Filter Technologies under EU Law | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee, Tea & Cake Break |
16:30 – 18:30 | Session 6, Chair: Adekemi Omotubora |
Stefanie Egidy (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn, Germany): Predictive Administration | |
Bernd Eckstein (Bielefeld University, Germany): Useful Illegality in Organizations and the Challenges of Digitalization | |
19:00 | Dinner |
Wednesday, 29 June
10:00 – 12:00 | Session 7, Chair: Sarah Mansour |
Bijan Fateh-Moghadam (University of Basel, Switzerland): "Where there is must, there must be no ought." - Towards Smart Technical Totalitarianism? | |
Tatiana Duarte (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium): Compliance by Design versus Legal Protection by Design | |
12:00 | Farewell Lunch / Departure |
all times given are CEST |
Please direct any inquiries about the research group Economic and Legal Challenges in the Advent of Smart Products to the coordinator Nadine Sutmöller.
smart-products@uni-bielefeld.de
+49 521 106-12836