NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES in The School of Computer Science - Ragnhildur Helgadóttir - I´m in the Mood for Law...
The School of Computer Science is very hapy to introduce a new interdisciplinary lectures series called the "School of Computer Science Interdisciplinary Lecture Series".
As part of this new seminar series, the School of Computer Science will invite scientists from other Schools at Reykjavík University to describe their research areas, the typical research problems that drive their development and the approaches that are used to seek their solutions in a way that is accessible a wide (computer science) audience. The aim of this series of seminars is to gain a first-hand account of the research activities carried out within the university and to see where computer science can contribute with its languages, computational models, algorithmic problem-solving approaches and way of thinking.
The Lecture Series is open for everyone.
The first talk entitled "I´m in the Mood for Law" will be delivered by Professor Ragnhildur Helgadóttir (School of Law) and will be held on Thursday, 14 May, at 12:00 in room K5.
ABSTRACT
In the lunch talk, I will focus on the kind of research problems that I work with as well as on the drafting of laws. To start with, a „legal way of thinking“ will be explained very briefly. The gist of the talk, however, will be on systemic questions in public law. How do you design a system (kerfi) which is both satisfactory as far as the rule of law (réttaröryggi) is concerned, transparent and not unduly expensive? The other main issue of the talk will be the drafting of laws. Laws tend to have unintended consequences. How do you foresee those and can CS maybe help in that? Finally, some of the fields where there is a substantive link between law and CS will be mentioned.
The plan is for the talk to be 25 mins or so in order to leave plenty of time for discussion.
