- Corporate Governance and Law
- Law and Political Science
- European and International Contract Law
- Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Diverse Legal and Medical Studies
- Corporate Insolvency and Governance
- European and International Law Studies
- Corporate Law and Human Rights
- Medical and Health Sciences Research
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Legal principles and applications
- Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
- Global Financial Regulation and Crises
- Criminal Law and Policy
- Taxation and Legal Issues
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Digital Innovation in Industries
- Digital Transformation in Law
- European Monetary and Fiscal Policies
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- German Literature and Culture Studies
Philipps University of Marburg
2014-2024
European Corporate Governance Institute
2003-2021
Akdeniz University
2021
EBS University of Business and Law
2020
The ethical and societal implications of artificial intelligence systems raise concerns. In this article, we outline a novel process based on applied ethics, namely, Z-Inspection <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">®</sup> , to assess if an AI system is trustworthy. We use the definition trustworthy given by high-level European Commission's expert group AI. general inspection that can be variety domains where are used, such as...
In 2016, an investigative journalism group called ProPublica analyzed COMPAS, a recidivism prediction algorithm based on machine learning used in the U.S. criminal justice sector.This instrument assigns risk scores to defendants that are supposed reflect how likely person is commit another crime upon release.The found was much more falsely flag black as high and less assess them be low than it case for white defendants.ProPublica assessed this highly problematic false decisions area of...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly improve delivery of healthcare and other services that advance population health wellbeing. However, use AI in also brings risks may cause unintended harm. To guide future developments AI, High-Level Expert Group on set up by European Commission (EC), recently published ethics guidelines for what it terms “trustworthy” AI. These are aimed at a variety stakeholders, especially guiding practitioners toward more ethical robust...
In discussions of the regulation autonomous systems, private law — specifically, company has been neglected as a potential legal and regulatory interface. As one us suggested previously, there are several possibilities for creation structures that might provide functional adaptive "housing" advanced software, various types artificial intelligence, other programmatic systems organizations phenomena we refer to here collectively ease reference. particular, this prior work introduces notion an...
While the concept of governance had originally been developed in Williamson's seminal article with a view to “governance contractual relations”, it has ironically not received much attention general contract law theory so far. This paper aims at developing potential perspectives that might arise from research field law. Contract appears be an important and indeed necessary complement corporate governance. organisation are distinct forms cooperation, yet, they complementary and, some cases,...
Due to its rapid technological development, artificial intelligence will enter corporate boardrooms in the very near future. This paper explores interplay between and law, analyzes how two fit together. Do current law rules match challenges posed by intelligence, or do they need be adapted? More specifically, focuses on directors of corporations. We consider extent which human should allowed – required rely intelligence. Moreover, technology probably soon offer possibility not only...
Blockchain technology promises to perform tasks that have traditionally been assigned the law and realm of legal institutions. Smart contracts create agreements are both automatable by computers enforceable via tamper-proof execution computer codes. Based on such smart contracts, some providers blockchain technologies offer "to act as a digital jurisdiction". The promise seems be state is entirely substituted rules codified in blockchain. But, even if it has often argued "Code Is Law", not -...
In discussions of the regulation autonomous systems, private law — specifically, company has been neglected as a potential legal and regulatory interface. As one us suggested previously, there are several possibilities for creation structures that might provide functional adaptive “housing” advanced software, various types artificial intelligence, other programmatic systems organizations phenomena we refer to here collectively ease reference. particular, this prior work introduces notion an...
Golden Shares are a much debated issue since the European Court of Justice delivered three relevant judgments on June 4, 2002. The debate concerns rights that State continues to hold after privatising formerly state owned enterprises, even if its shareholding is reduced minimum or no longer exists. enterprises and their different possible forms starting point, but only minor interest for our discussion. Instead, we focus special arising during this process, as well comparable instruments...