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Centre鈥檚 recent events

17 March 2025: Associate Professor Dr Hedvig Schmidt and Dr Napoleon Xanthoulis, and 29 students from the LLB, LLM, and PGR programmes of Southampton Law School with a passion for data protection and intellectual property law visited IBM in Hursley

3 March 2025: 'AI Collusion 鈥 Should We Be Concerned?' seminar by Dr Christian Bergqvist, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (as a Visiting Scholar). Organised as part of the Law and Technology Centre's seminar series Afternoon Tea Talks on the Law and AI

Centre鈥檚 previous events (academic years 2021-22 and 2022-23) 
 
24 May 2023: Law and Technology Centre鈥檚 Annual Lecture by Professor Colin Gavaghan, Professor of Digital Futures, University of Bristol Law School 
 
17 May 2023: 鈥楾echnological Innovations and the Limits of 鈥淩ight to Try鈥 Arguments鈥, Research Seminar by Dr Michael Da Silva, Lecturer, Southampton Law School 
 
10 March 2023: 鈥楧ata Protection in Practice鈥, Research Seminar at the Foundations in Data Protection Law module by Visiting Professor Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Brussels Privacy Hub, VUB, Belgium  
 
8 February 2023, 鈥楢rtificial Intelligence and the Abundance of Responsibility鈥, Research Seminar by Dr Maximilian Kiener, Junior-Professor of Philosophy and Digital Ethics at the University of Oldenburg / Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and an Associate Research Fellow of The Institute for Ethics in AI at University of Oxford 
 
15 December 2022: 鈥楩or Profit: A History of Corporations鈥, Research Seminar by Professor William Magnuson, Texas A&M University School of Law 
 
30 May 2022: ', Research Workshop organised by Professor Uta Kohl, Southampton Law School 
 
11 May 2022: 鈥榃hen public officials speak in public: Legal effects and accountability in the digital era鈥, Research Seminar by Dr Napoleon Xanthoulis, Lecturer, Southampton Law School 
 
16 March 2022: 鈥楪uardians of Innovation: Do Intellectual Property Rights Still Protect and Promote Innovation Efficiently?鈥, Research Seminar by Dr Hedvig Schmidt, Associate Professor, Southampton Law School 
 
14 February 2022: 鈥楾owards the 鈥渃omplementarity and convergence鈥 of EU consumer and data protection? Some thoughts on the design of enforcement regimes鈥, Research Seminar by Dr Stephanie Law, Associate Professor, Southampton Law School 
 
16 December 2021: 鈥楾ransnational cooperation in data protection in the post-Brexit era鈥, Research Workshop jointly organised by Dr Napoleon Xanthoulis, Southampton Law School / Law and Technology Centre and Professor Takis Tridimas, Centre of European Law, King鈥檚 College London as part of the 鈥楥ross-Border Data Protection Network鈥 UKRI/IRC Project [programme]