Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! It has been a while since the last newsletter: since then, I have been busy with some contract work and planning my move away from Italy. None of that provides me with insightful comments or work in progress that I can share in this newsletter, at least not for now. But I can at least share some good professional news with you.

The first one is that my job search finally was successful. I will start in 1 November 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher in cyber policy at the University of Luxembourg, working with Professor Niovi Vavoula. So, this newsletter will soon start covering issues of cyberspace law and regulation beyond its usual focus on AI. (And, if you are interested in those matters, we are hiring a doctoral researcher to join the team!). Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you work on cybersecurity, digital regulation, and policy more generally, or if you’re in Luxembourg.1

Additionally, I finally managed to carve out some time to start working on outputs from my thesis. While I’m still writing down my proposal for a full-length book on technology neutrality, I’ve already decided that some parts of my thesis do not fit well into the book I want to publish. So, I will develop them into spin-off papers. The first one, titled Two dogmas of technology-neutral regulation, is already available as a SSRN pre-print. Comments are welcome, as I plan to submit it to a journal soon.

Last but certainly not least, my AI Act article with Nicolas Petit finally found a home. We are putting together the final revisions, and soon we will be able to share more about that!

Reading recommendations

A few recent materials that might be of interest for people in the AI & Law space:

• Marta Cantero Gamito and Christopher T Marsden, ‘Artificial Intelligence Co-Regulation? The Role of Standards in the EU AI Act’ (2024) 32 International Journal of Law and Information Technology eaae011.
• Karolina Iwańska and others, ‘Towards an AI Act that Serves People and Society:  Strategic Actions for Civil Society and Funders on the Enforcement of the EU AI Act’ (ECNL 20 August 2024).
• Ljubisa Metikos, ‘Explaining and Contesting Judicial Profiling Systems’ (2024) 2024 Technology and Regulation 188.
• Anders Kristian Munk and others, ‘Beyond Artificial Intelligence Controversies: What Are Algorithms Doing in the Scientific Literature?’ (2024) 11 Big Data & Society 20539517241255107.
• Tito Rendas and Ivar Hartmann, ‘From Brussels to Brasília: How the EU AI Act Could Inspire Brazil’s Generative AI Copyright Policy’ (2024) 73 GRUR International 495.
• Case C‑203/22 (Dun & Bradstreet Austria), opinion of Advocate General Richard de la Tour, delivered on 12 September 2024.
• Andrew Smart and Atoosa Kasirzadeh, ‘Beyond Model Interpretability: Socio-Structural Explanations in Machine Learning’ [2024] AI & Soc.

Thank you for reading this brief update! I now leave you with these two adorable otters:

Have a great weekend, and hope to see you around in the next issue!