Institute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB) Information

The UAB Institute of Law and Technology (IDT), housed at the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, is a research centre promoting cutting-edge research on Law, Ethics and Technology from an interdisciplinary perspective. The IDT-UAB has extensive expertise as an ethics and legal partner of EU funded research projects in identifying and assessing ethical and legal implications of data-driven technologies in different domains. Research areas include ethical AI, data protection and privacy and algorithmic legal and ethical governance. The IDT-UAB role entails: (i) identifying the ethical and legal framework applicable to the project; ii) defining the ethical and legal requirements that must be observed in the project’s research activities; (iii) building the regulatory model for the technologies deployed in the project and the workflow of data ensuring ethical and legal governance; (iv) guiding Consortium partners when dealing with ethical and legal issues: (v) setting up a robust monitoring strategy for the project, involving renowned independent experts as members of the Independent Ethics Board. IDT-UAB researchers also contribute significantly to the organization of specialized workshops, and the dissemination of the project findings and results through scientific publications and presentations in the main Data Protection and Law & Technology Conferences and Workshops (EDPD, EDPP, IVR, Jurix, ICAIL, AICOL).