We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 9th Annual Conference on 21-22 November 2024 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Study (SAS). You can read about our previous annual events here.

We are looking for high-quality contributions exploring how best to regulate and govern the use of AI, that are used across society, particularly their implications for human rights and the responsibilities of organisations. Including generative AI and other automated decision-making and data-driven systems.

Papers should address the development and future of regulation, policymaking, and governance within the United Kingdom, Europe, and/or internationally. Interdisciplinary and cross-sector papers are welcomed.

The conference organisers would like to encourage submissions from Early Career Researchers and post-doctoral researchers who have been awarded their PhD within the past five years. 

The ILPC Annual Conference will include the ILPC Annual Lecture 2024, and we are delighted to announce that this will be delivered by world-leading scholar danah boyd.  

danah boyd

Danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies.  

Full information  can be found here.