The AI for the Common Good Institute (ULB/VUB) and Easy Brussels organise half a day of discussion and talks about Rules as Code and Digital-Ready legislation. Rules as code (RAC) is an approach to create and publish regulations, legislation and policies as machine and human readable. The event will gather experts & public servants from accross Europe to discuss and share experiences about the digitization of rulemaking. The discussion will take place in English, French and Dutch.
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Program
11:30 – 12:00 - Welcome & Registration of participants
Rules as Code & Administrative Simplification (12:00 - 15:30) - Designed for public servants
12:00 – 12:30 – Gregory Lewkowicz & David Restrepo Amariles, Rules as Code (RaC) and the SimpLex project in Brussels: An Introduction to a New Perspective on Policymaking and Legislation Drafting
12:30 – 12:50 – Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Digital-Ready Legislation in Denmark
12:50 – 13:10 – Kate Hannah & Zoë Rillstone, RaC for Legislation Drafting in Jersey
13:15 – 14:00 – Roundtables Lunch “RaC in practice”: Discussion with experts
14:00 – 14:20 – Laurence Diver & Masha Medvedeva, The Typology of Legal Technologies: A Web Tool to Explore Legal Technologies
14:20 – 14:40 – Thomas Guillet & Mauko Quiroga, OpenFisca: The Open Source Platform to Write Rules as Code
14:40 – 15:00 – Sandra Chakroun & Benoît Courty, The Case of Leximpact at the French National Assembly
15:00 – 15:30 – General Discussion: What Remains to Be Done in the Region of Brussels ?
Rules as Code & Digital-Ready Legislation (16:00 - 18:30)
15:30 – 16:00 – Welcome & Registration of Participants
16:00 – 16:20 – Welcome Speeches
Bernard Clerfayt, Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Digital Transition
Representative of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Representative of the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre
16:20 – 17:00 – The SimpLex Project: Building a Regional Legislation Database & AI-based Tools for Better Legislation
Youcef Bouharaoua, Hakim Boulahya, Simone Casalena, Xander De Valkeneer, Raphaël Gyory, Gregory Lewkowicz, David Restrepo Amariles, Raffaele Todesco
17:00 – 17:15 – Pause
17:15 – 18:15 – Rules as Code & Digital-Ready Legislations in Practice
Sandra Chakroun, Benoît Courty, Thomas Guillet, Kate Hannah, Mireille Hildebrandt, Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Mauko Quiroga, Zoë Rillstone.
18:15 – 18:30 – Gregory Lewkowicz, Conclusion – Legal Innovation for the Capital of Europe : The Way Ahead
18:30 - Cocktail
Speakers
Youcef Bouharaoua, Researcher, Perelman Centre - Smart Law Hub, ULB
Hakim Boulahya, Researcher, Perelman Centre - Smart Law Hub, ULB
Simone Casalena, Research Assistant, Perelman Centre - Smart Law Hub, ULB
Sandra Chakroun, Leximpact, French National Assembly (France)
Bernard Clerfayt, Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Digital Transition
Benoît Courty, Leximpact, French National Assembly (France)
Xander De Valkeneer, Legal Advisor, Easy.Brussels
Laurence Diver, Researcher, LSTS, VUB
Thomas Guillet, OpenFisca (France)
Raphaël Gyory, Researcher, IRIDIA, ULB
Kate Hannah, Legislative Drafting Office, States of Jersey (Jersey)
Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor at VUB, co-Director of LSTS
Gregory Lewkowicz, Professor at ULB, Perelman Centre - Smart Law Hub (Brussels)
Masha Medvedeva, Researcher, LSTS, VUB
Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Chief adviser, Division for Analysis and Policy, Secretariat for digital-ready legislation (Denmark)
Mauko Quiroga, OpenFisca (France)
David Restrepo Amariles, Professor at HEC-Paris, Smart Law Hub (Paris)
Zoë Rillstone, Legislative Drafting Office, States of Jersey (Jersey)
Raffaele Todesco, Researcher, Perelman Centre - Smart Law Hub, ULB
