Law School Law at the Top

The event was a resounding success, attracting nearly 300 participants over three days and around 60 speakers.

AI Week made a lasting impression with its original format, combining:

• conferences, led by legal professionals, academics, and legaltechs, to learn about legal AI and its challenges
• a legal tech forum where around fifteen developers of legal AI solutions were present to provide practical training
• A continuously open AI tool testing center allowing everyone to try out legal AI tools live to better understand how they work and then use them in a professional setting.

This innovative event also brought together diverse audiences who rarely come together to discuss AI, namely legal professionals, academics, and students.

A look back at this wonderful event in pictures...

Video of the event produced by the UGA Communications Department:

IA Week opening conference (Wednesday morning):

Opening remarks: Y. LAKHNECH (President of the UGA), J.-C. VIDELIN (Dean of the Law School ), E. GAUSSIER (Director of the MIAI Cluster) and Mr. GIROT-MARC (President of the Grenoble Bar Association).

Conference "When AI enters the world of law" (Wednesday morning):

Conference chaired by C. BARRET (Attorney General at the Court of Appeals).

Speakers:

• G. VIAL ( Associate Professor of Law at the Law School , Co-holder of the AI-LegalTools Chair)
• E. VERGES (Professor of Law at the Law School ) 
• S. DAHAN (Professor of Law at Cornell University in New York and Law School Queen’s Law School in Kingston; Director and Founder of the Conflict Analytic Lab; President of the Deel Lab; and Co-founder of OpenJustice)
• G. LEWKOWICZ (Professor at the Free University of Brussels and Director of the Smart Law Hub at the Perelman Center, Academic Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good - FARI)

Conference on "AI and the Transformation of Legal Professions" (Wednesday afternoon):

Conference chaired by C. COURTALON (First President of the Court of Appeals)

Speakers: 

• C. APETROAIE (Auditor at the Court of Cassation, Assistant to the Open Data Project Director and Head of the Office for the Dissemination and Promotion of Case Law)
• H. BOULAKRAS (Deputy Director of the National School for the Judiciary) 
• H. LAUDIC-BARON (Vice-President of the National Bar Council) 
• C. KLEITZ (Deputy Director of the Professional Training School of the Paris Bar Association - EFB)

Conference on "AI and Legal Education" (Thursday morning):

Conference chaired by R. RAMBAUD (Professor of Law at the Law School )

Speakers: 

• D. SCHWAB (University professor of computer science, holder of the AugmentIA chair, researcher on large language models - LLM)
• Ch. QUEZEL-AMBRUNAZ (Professor of Law at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc)
• Z. LAIK (Designer of the legaltech Good Legal)
• F. ROCHE (Designer of JurisLogic)
• D. NICOLAS (Co-founder of legaltech Examino)

Conference: "AI and private law professions: a transformation of practices" (Thursday afternoon):

Conference chaired by G. VIAL (Associate Professor of Law at the Law School )

Speakers: 

• Y. CHOVORY ( Engineer in AI applied to forensics, Nantes Atlantique Genetics Institute - IGNA) 
• A. ROCHER (Lecturer, Lawyer at the Lyon Bar) 
• Mr. FONTAINE (Associate Notary)
• J-M. BRUGUIERE ( Professor of Law, University of Georgia)

Conference "AI in public action: administering and judging in the algorithmic era" (Thursday afternoon):

Conference chaired by R. RAMBAUD (Professor of Law at the Law School )

Speakers: 

• P. CHEVALLOT (AI Trainer at CNFPT, AI and Responsible Digital Innovation Consultant) 
• Mr. CLEMENT ( Presiding Judge at the Administrative Court of Lyon) 
• J. DUSSERT (Tech Lead at the Digital Transformation Delegation of the DGFiP)

Conference "Regulating artificial intelligence: between ethics and law" (Friday morning):

Conference chaired by J.-C. VIDELIN (Dean of the Law School )

Speakers: 

• T. CHRISTAKIS ( Professor of Law at the Law School )
• A. FAVREAU (Professor of Law at the University of Georgia)
• T. MENISSIER (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia)
• A. HAFSAOUI (Contract doctoral student at UGA, JADE project)
• T. LAKSSIMI (Professor of Law, Head of the Research and Documentation Department at the National School for the Judiciary)

Legal tech forum: