Données et infrastructures numériques. Séminaire interdisciplinaire

Argument

Le séminaire interdisciplinaire Données et infrastructures numériques interroge les transformations contemporaines du droit et des institutions politiques à l’ère des technologies de l’information. Si les infrastructures numériques — réseaux matériels, plateformes, algorithmes — sont l'objet d'une régulation de plus en plus intense,  c'est qu'elles produisent leurs propres normes, en redéfinissant les conditions de l’action, de la responsabilité et de la liberté. Cette  imbrication des infrastructures et des institutions remet en cause les distinctions classiques entre contrainte technique et obligation juridique, et entre faits et normes. Les données jouent en particulier un rôle de plus en plus prégnant dans la prise de décision et dans les processus institutionnels, et cela jusque dans la pratique judiciaire elle-même.  En croisant les perspectives de la philosophie et des études juridiques sur la technologie, le séminaire vise à examiner comment le droit est à la fois concurrencé et transformé par des mécanismes de régulation technique, parfois invisibles, mais puissamment prescriptifs.

Cycle de séminaires organisé par Henri Stephanou et Elsa Supiot (axe données et intelligence artificielle et centre normes, sciences et techniques), faisant suite au cycle de séminaires Philosophie et droit des données.

Programme

Lundi 16 février, 16h-18h

Ricardo Fabrino et Virgilio Almeida
Algorithmic Institutionalism (en anglais)

Algorithmic Institutionalism uniquely conceives of algorithms as institutions in contemporary societies, focusing on different dimensions of how algorithms structure decision-making and enact power relations. It addresses the need for new analytical lenses to make sense of algorithms’ rising ubiquity in decision-making and to foster democratically infused interactions between humans and algorithms.

The talk, based on the Oxford University Press book Algorithmic Institutionalism (2023), develops a theoretical framework for understanding algorithms through institutional theory, and shows how it applies to domains such as security, governmental platformization, and recommendation systems. Finally, it examines how democratic values can be rearticulated in response to the global expansion of algorithmic decision-making.

Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça is the chair of the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). He coordinates Margem – Research Group on Democracy and Justice and is a fellow at INCT - Digital Democracy. He is also an associate researcher at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. His interests include Democratic Theory, Contentious Politics, and Political Communication. He is one of the authors of Algorithmic Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2023) and one of the editors of Crises of Democracy and the Public Sphere (Editora UFMG, 2023) and of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022), among other books and several journal publications.

Virgilio Almeida is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is co-author of five books on web technologies and performance modeling, and author of Governance for the Digital World (Palgrave Macmillan) and Algorithmic Institutionalism (Oxford University Press). His scholarly work focuses on social computing and the governance of artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems. Professor Almeida is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the World Academy of Sciences.

Jeudi 26 mars, 14h-16h

Juliette Sénéchal
Étude de l'évolution de la pondération entre les concepts du droit du numérique : traduction du glissement actuel du système de pensée post-moderne vers le système de pensée non-moderne

Cette contribution relative à ce moment charnière entre les systèmes de pensée "post-moderne" et "non-moderne", sera illustrée en montrant que la montée en puissance du système de pensée post-moderne, qui s'était traduite par la fragilisation du concept de "consentement" au profit de celui de "balance des intérêts" au sein du RGPD (et de la directive qui a précédé ce texte), a dorénavant cédé la place aux balbutiements d'un système de pensée "non-moderne" se traduisant par une confirmation de la fragilité du "consentement", mais également par une fragilisation, cette fois-ci, du concept de "balance des intérêts" au profit de celui de "risque systémique" au sein du DSA et de l'AI Act.

Juliette Sénéchal est professeure des universités à la Faculté de droit, d’économie et de gestion et directrice adjointe de l’école doctorale Sciences juridiques, politiques et de gestion de l’Université de Lille. Elle est actuellement en délégation auprès de l'équipe SPIRALS du Centre Inria de Lille. Sa production scientifique s’articule autour des axes suivants : l’étude des mutations contemporaines du droit du numérique et du droit des contrats, confrontés à la construction de l’espace juridique européen et au développement du marché unique numérique.

Jeudi 23 avril, 14h-16h

Mireille Hildebrandt
Reinventing the Rule of Law in the context of AI deployment in legal practice  (en anglais)

Mireille Hildebrandt is Emeritus Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), where she was appointed by the VUB Research Council on the subject of ‘Interfacing Law and Technology’. She has been co-Director of the Research Group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology from 2019-2024. She is also Emeritus Professor of ‘Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law’ at the Science Faculty, at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests concern the implications of automated decisions, machine learning and mindless artificial agency for law and the rule of law in constitutional democracies. Hildebrandt has published 5 scientific monographs, 23 edited volumes or special issues, and over 120 chapters and articles in scientific journals and volumes. She is co-founder and co-editor of the international peer reviewed Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law.

Lundi 18 mai, 16h-18h

Roger Brownsword
The Life and Times of Law, Regulation and Technology  (en anglais)

Professor Roger Brownsword has been an academic lawyer for some 50 years, first at the University of Sheffield and then at King’s College London. He has published about 20 books, most recently Law, Technology and Society. He is the founding general editor of Law, Innovation and Technology as well as being on the editorial board of the Modern Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. From 2011-2015, he chaired UK Biobank’s Ethics and Governance Council; and he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2004-2010). He has been a member of working parties in the Academy of Medical Sciences (on ‘drugs futures’) and the Royal Society (on neuroscience and the law, and on machine learning); and he has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees on stems cells and hybrid embryos.

Jeudi 4 juin, 14h-16h

Salomé Viljoen
(en anglais)

Salomé Viljoen is an Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law School, where she teaches and writes about contracts, privacy, commercial surveillance and data governance. Salomé works on the law and political economy of data and AI and the role of law in structuring digital life. She is especially interested in platform power, how information law structures inequality, and how law theorizes data about people (i.e. ‘social data’). Salomé’s academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in places like the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, Big Data & Society, and the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency. She writes essays and articles for places like Nature, the Guardian, Logic Magazine and Phenomenal World, and the LPE Blog.

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