Tübingen Conference for AI and law
November 5-6 2025 in Tübingen
The Tübingen Conference for Artificial Intelligence and law brings together academic researchers from both computer science and law in an interdisciplinary format that fosters exchange and discussions between these two fields. The conference targets an international, academic audience that is willing to think beyond the boundaries of their own discipline.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Rediet Abebe – Harvard University / ELLIS Institute and University of Tübingen
- Solon Barocas – Microsoft Research / Cornell University
- Sylvie Delacroix – King’s College London
- Lilian Edwards – Newcastle University
- Christoph Engel – Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
- Michal Gal – University of Haifa
- Philipp Hacker – European New School of Digital Studies, Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
- Christoph Kern – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Christoph Sorge – Saarland University
Tentative Program
Wednesday 5th of November
| 09.00 - 09.10 | Initial Remarks |
| 09.10 - 09.15 | Welcome Note - Karla Pollmann - President of the University of Tübingen |
| 09.15 - 09.20 | Welcome Note - Felix Streiter - Managing Director of the Carl Zeiss Foundation |
| 09.20 - 09.30 | Welcome Note - Marion Gentges - Minister of Justice and Migration in Baden-Württemberg (tbc) |
| 09.30 - 10.15 | Keynote - Solon Barocas |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45 - 11.45 | Contributed Short Presentations |
| Marta Soprana - LSE Ideas - Trade-Relevant Models for AI Governance: ‘Brussels Effect’ vs ‘Singapore Effect’ | |
| Lyrissa Lidsky, Andrew Daves - University of Florida Levin College of Law - Inevitable Errors: Defamation by Hallucination in AI Reasoning Models | |
| Pierre-Alexandre Murena - Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) - Legal Co-pilots: Perspectives and Technical Challenges | |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | Keynote - Sylvie Delacroix |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Contributed Posters |
| Wijnand van Woerkom - Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law - Applications of a Fortiori Case-based Reasoning in AI and Law | |
| Sebastian Nagl, Elly Breu, Angelina Greiner, Matthias Grabmair - TUM - BenGER (Benchmark for German Law) System Showcase | |
| Bianca Steffes - Saarland University - Negation as a Challenge for Machine Translation from Natural Language into Logical Formalisms in the Legal Domain | |
| Rabanus Derr - University of Tübingen and Tübingen AI Center - Being accurate: The EU AI Act on Accuracy | |
| Vivian Nastl - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen - Extending Legal Databases with LLM Annotations: Opportunities and Challenges | |
| Stefano Tramacere - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa - Beyond the Vacuum: Neither Magic, Nor Mathematics! How Techno-Normative Choices Have Critical Implications for Persons Subjected to ML-Driven Decision Systems. | |
| Marco Sanchi - University of Pisa, University of Bologna - Towards Explainable Autonomous Vehicles Through The Artificial Intelligence Act | |
| Lukas Arnold - University of Bern, Institute of Public Law, and Columbia University, Department of Computer Science - Regulatory Protection Against AI Discrimination: A Comparison Between the US and the EU | |
| Jan Grenzebach - Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (BAuA), Dortmund - Fairness Engineering in the Algorithmic Management of Platform Work | |
| Lezel Roddeck - Bucerius Law School - Automation Bias in Education: A Blind Spot in the European AI Act? | |
| Giovanni Zaccaroni - University of Milano-Bicocca - AI, democracy and the EU digital strategic autonomy | |
| Elif Ildirar - Hamburg University - Digital Watcher or Dijital Prosecutor? AI in Child Protection and Its Evidentiary Role in Criminal Procedure | |
| Yangzi Li - National University of Singapore - Human Creativity vs. Machine Intelligence: Reconceptualizing the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Outputs | |
| Daniel Eder - Johannes Kepler University Linz - The AI Act and Bias - Effectiveness and Technical Feasibility of Countermeasures | |
| Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy - Bilkent University Faculty of Law / King's College London Visiting Researcher - Attributing Agency Laws to Machines: Legal Design for the AI-Driven Contract Economy | |
| Tahoora Heydari - University of Helsinki - Defectiveness in the Age of AI: The Challenges and Innovations of Article 7 in the Revised EU Product Liability Directive | |
| Peter R. Slowinski - Adam Mickiewicz Univerity, Poznan - Legal protection of synthetic data for artificial intelligence training | |
| 14.30 - 15.15 | Keynote - Lilian Edwards |
| 15.15 - 15.45 | Coffee Break |
| 15.45 - 16.45 | Contributed Short Presentations |
| Vittoria Caponecchia - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa - Defining Significant Harm in the AI Act: the Case of Voice-Based Virtual Assistant | |
| Madeleine Waller, Paul Waller, Karen Yeung - King's College London - Can Explainable Artificial Intelligence methods satisfy legal obligations of transparency, reason-giving and legal justification? | |
| Zachary Cooper - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Dams in the Infinite River: Next-Generation Copyright In Next-Generation Interactive Media | |
| 16.45 - 17.30 | Keynote - Cristoph Sorge |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner |
Thursday 6th of November
| 09.00 - 09.45 | Keynote - Michal Gal |
| 09:45 - 10:45 | Keynote - Christoph Kern |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 11:55 | Contributed Short Presentations |
| Marilyne Ordekian - University College London - The Application of Large Language Models in Law: A Systematic Interdisciplinary Study of Privacy, Security, and Ethical Risks | |
| Teodora Groza - Sciences Po Paris - AI as self-improving infrastructure | |
| 11:55 - 12:45 | Keynote - Christoph Engel |
| 12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Keynote - Rediet Abebe |
| 14:15 - 14:55 | Contributed Short Presentations |
| Alessio Azzutti - University of Glasgow - Artificial Intelligence and Illegal Markets | |
| Anne Lauber-Rönsberg - TU Dresden University of Technology - Inferring how to Generate Outputs - Rethinking the AI System Definition under the EU AI Act | |
| 14:55 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Keynote - Philipp Hacker - Between hallucinations and reality: AI liability along the value chain |
| 16:15 | Closing Notes |
Registration
Please fill the following form for the registration https://forms.gle/kpumJm5CwSAuCgKS6
Where
The conference will take place in Tübingen, a picturesque university town in the south-west of Germany.
Conference venues are:
📍 Day 1:
Alte Aula, in the historic town center, next to the Stiftskirche, University of Tübingen
📍 Day 2: MvL1, a brand-new building on the Tübingen AI research campus
About Tübingen
Tübingen is a leading hub for AI and law research in Europe and beyond. City is home to the:
- CZS Institute for AI and Law
- Tübingen AI Center
- Cluster of Excellence – Machine Learning for Science
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- ELLIS Institute Tübingen
- Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
- Department of Law, University of Tübingen
These institutions are part of a vibrant research ecosystem that fosters collaboration across law, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
Hotels and Venue
Ibis Styles Tübingen (https://all.accor.com/hotel/9841/index.de.shtml)
Koncept Hotel Tübingen (https://www.koncepthotels.com/neue-horizonte-tuebingen/#/booking/search)
Hotel Domizil (https://www.hotel-domizil.com/)
Hotel Krone (https://www.krone-tuebingen.de/de/)
Organizing Team
This conference is funded by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung and the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science.”
