Law and technology – and their perspectives on the people they serve

About the event

That lawyers and computer scientists need to collaborate closer to protect society from the harmful potential of technology is now common-place. Equally common place is the recognition that for this purpose, they have to develop a shared vocabulary. The talk is based on a chapter of Christian Geminn’s recently published  book “Deus ex Machina - Grundrechte und Digitalisierung“ that explores the interconnection between fundamental human rights and new technologies. Technology is meant to serve humankind, but who is this “human” it is meant to serve, and how do the two disciplines conceptualise what it means to be human? Based on constitutional and human rights law, and the legal theory of in particular  Gustav Radbruch, the talk will develop the legal understanding of “human” and contrast and compare it with the way a concept of  “homo technologicus” is inscribed in the technological discourse.

About the speaker

Christian Geminn is the managing director of the Project Group Constitutionally Compatible Technology Design (provet). The implications of new technologies, their societal impact and their regulation are at the core of the research conducted by the project group., which is embedded in the Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel. At ITeG, informatics, ergonomics, technology law, business informatics, sociology, gender and diversity studies, as well as business psychology conduct interdisciplinary research on questions of the design of socially desirable information and communication technologies.

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