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Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Explainable AI

16 October 2025, Utrecht

Symposium organised by the Special Interest Group on AI, Ethics & Law
of the Utrecht University Focus Area Human-Centered AI.

Registration information added on June 20, registration deadline extended to Oct 1st on Sept 16.

Symposium Topic and Target Audience

This symposium will address explainable AI from ethical and legal perspectives, with speakers from AI, philosophy and law. The primay target audience is UU students and researchers from various backgrounds interested in explainable AI. There is also limited room for participants from outside the UU.

Preliminary programme

12.00-13.00: Lunch + opening speech Sybe de Vries, Professor of Public Economic Law and Co-director of the RENFORCE research programme -- Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe, Utrecht University School of Law
13.00-13.45am: keynote speaker 1
  • Nadya Purtova, School of Law, Utrecht University. When cognitive legal dreams and syntactic information machines collide. abstract
13.45-14.00: Short Break
14.00-14.45pm: keynote speaker 2
  • Wijnand van Woerkom, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany (see also his former UU webpage). Assessing recidivism risk prediction with case-based reasoning. abstract
14.45-15.15: Coffee Break
15.15-16.00pm: keynote speaker 3
  • Kate Vredenburg, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. What should we explain with explainable AI?. abstract
16.00-16.15: Short Break
16.15-17.00: Panel Discussion

Chair: Henry Prakken

Panelists:
  • Jan Broersen, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University.
  • Evelien Brouwer, School of Law, Utrecht University.
  • Nadya Purtova, School of Law, Utrecht University.
  • Kate Vredenburg, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
  • Wijnand van Woerkom, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany.
17:00-18:00: Drinks

Venue

Alex Brenninkmeijer room, Johanna Hudig Building, Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht.

Registration

Registration is free but UU staff and students have priority. To register, send an email by October 1st to secretariaatiersbr@uu.nl with the following information:

Your name
Your email address
Your UU department
Your status (Staff, Postdoc, PhD student, Bsc or Msc student, other)
Whether you want your email address to be added to the mailing list of the AI, Ethics & Law special interest group.


Organisers

  • Hein Duijf, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University.
  • Henry Prakken, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.
  • Cristiana Santos, School of Law, Utrecht University.

Contact

Send an email to h.w.a.duijf@uu.nl, h.prakken@uu.nl or c.teixeirasantos@uu.nl