4 runners out of thousands on Sunday at Vienna’s City Marathon. We did it (as a team).
Retrospect
Events
The “Rechtspanorama am Juridicum” debate on Monday on media freedom vs data protection is discussed in Die Presse and Linkedin and Linkedin again. Tuesday’s European Forum Alpbach discussion on the European Media Freedom Act is also reflected on LinkedIn. Anna Wallner was a magnificent host and had, clearly., the nicest shoes (and my (running) socks were too short).
© EFA, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7188915965559009281/
Dichand (in my view) was underestimating the relevamce of EFMA in Austria, Brandstätter overestimating European competitiveness. It was a very lively debate, Walnner even called it an “infight”.
I just noticed now that there is an audiorecording available; there is a funny pronouncation error at the beginning and lots of debate then.
I learned much on supply chain regulation (it’s complicated) from Mag. Manfred KLIKA, LL.M. and RA Mag. Martin ECKEL, LL.M. on Wednesday (and on NIS2 due to my own presentation)
AI, EHDS and health Data was in focus at the HELT 2024 in Brussels on Thursday - beautiful venue, lots of audience from academia, practice and the Brussels-Buuble.
Wake up time was early, though.
Columbia
Columbia University is quite in the news these days. The University even switched back to remote teaching (for politcal, not medical reasons, though). This made it specifically interesting to participate (online) in a discussion on freedom of speech.
This was streamed live, I don’t know yet whether it’s also recorded, but if so, you should find it here: https://columbia.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5b024e7a0c16e2779164ac24d&id=74114c83cb&e=7b532e6e3d
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Clemens Hufeld - a brilliant young lawyer with a background, inter alia, in statistics and computer science -spoke with me about his paper on unobjectivity in law exam grading.
Hufeld is also running a YouTube Channel on Fundamental Rights you might want to make a look into
Public Administration
I could join only very briefly a workshop of the intitiative on better public administration, but here’s the (provisional) progamme. Importantly, members of all parliamentary parties were present.
Prospect
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Not less than four #arsboni-events are ahead of us, one on AI-ethics, one on the borderline between science and politics, one on an oustanding legal career and the Supreme Court Documentation System (“Evidenzbüro”) and one on Surviving Law Studies.
We start with aviation and AI on Monday at 17.00 CET:
Two events will follow on Tueday at 13.30 and 18.00 CET.
And we will close the week on Friday, May 3rd, at 14.00 on how to survive (or reform?) law studies.
Guest Lecture: Getting Data to Flow”: China’s Law and Political Economy for Data Productivity
I am trying to unerstand better how China approaches AI and Digitalisation. One outcome of this endeavour is the following (public) event:
On Thursday, May 2nd, at 16.45 Professor Xin Dai, J.S.D, will give a guest lecture at the Department of Chinese Studies. He is Associate Professor with tenure and Vice Dean at Peking University Law School. Dai received his LL.B degrees (in law and in sociology) from Peking University, a J.D degree from Duke University, and a J.S.D degree from the University of Chicago.
This is hosted at the Department of East Asian Studies of UNIVIE by Professor Steinhardt. More info is available online.
Daisy
is pictured with my new phone-camera here (Do you see the difference?) She is sceptical about running and about being photpgraphed, in particular without shoes.
© Felix Forgó
Have a wonderful week!
Kind regards
Nikolaus (Forgó)