RT4RJ

Regulatory Technology for Rights & Justice

Regulatory data and AI governance in the EU are increasingly supported by technical infrastructures: impact assessments, algorithmic registers, compliance ontologies, and digital oversight tools. This workshop asks how such systems can help make rights effective in practice, rather than simply recording obligations on paper.

Toulouse, France One day, in-person / hybrid Six thematic areas Short papers & demos Open-access proceedings
JURIX 2026
Call for Papers
§ 01  Motivation

Regulatory technology, under-theorized as an object of research.

Digital-rights legislation increasingly depends on technical systems that can represent legal obligations, assess risks, document decisions, and support recourse for affected individuals. Yet many of these tools — impact assessments, algorithmic registers, ODR platforms, and compliance ontologies — are still rarely studied as AI & Law research objects in their own right.

RT4RJ brings these infrastructures into focus through the expertise of researchers already working on data protection, ontology engineering for regulatory obligations, knowledge graphs for deliberative democracy, and access-to-justice research.

6Thematic areas, from rights enforcement to adaptive regulation
4Universities across four European countries
8–12Accepted submissions anticipated
15–25Attendees, per recent JURIX satellite workshops
§ 02  Scope & Topics

Six areas of interest.

AREA_01

Fundamental Rights Enforcement Technologies

09 topics
  • Technologies for detecting, monitoring, and reporting rights violations
  • Rights-by-design in the architecture of regulatory and compliance systems
  • Rights safeguards encoding in automated public-sector systems
  • Tools for rights-holders: generating claims, gathering evidence, asserting rights
  • Rights indicators, dashboards, and measurement infrastructures
  • Public procurement as a rights-enforcement instrument
  • Documentation, logging, and traceability as preconditions for rights claims
  • Digital identity, biometrics, and civil registration systems
  • Rights protection in under-resourced enforcement capacity
AREA_02

Impact Assessments

05 topics
  • Algorithmic/AI impact assessment methodologies and standards
  • Fundamental rights impact assessments (FRIAs) for regulatory technologies
  • Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) in practice
  • Ex-ante vs. ex-post impact assessments
  • Distributed assessment responsibilities
AREA_03

Access to Justice

07 topics
  • Online dispute resolution (ODR) platforms
  • AI-assisted legal aid, chatbots, and other legal tools
  • Digital divide and barriers for vulnerable/marginalized populations
  • E-filing, virtual hearings, and remote courts
  • Language access and accessibility in digital justice systems
  • Cost and efficiency trade-offs in tech-mediated dispute resolution
  • Disability-inclusive design in digital justice
AREA_04

Algorithmic Decision-Making, Transparency & Accountability

12 topics
  • Automated decision-making in high-risk sectors
  • AI-enabled law enforcement and public safety
  • Right to explanation and contestability of algorithmic outcomes
  • Human oversight requirements and practical limits
  • Profiling, scoring, and risk-assessment tools in public administration
  • Procedural safeguards against automation bias
  • Explainable AI (XAI) for high-risk contexts
  • Public registers and disclosure regimes for automated decision systems
  • Algorithmic auditing methodologies and independent oversight bodies
  • Corporate accountability for proprietary/black-box algorithms
  • Whistleblower protections and investigative journalism in exposing algorithmic harms
  • Certification and labeling schemes for compliant AI systems
AREA_05

Digitalization of Law

07 topics
  • Legal informatics and machine-readable legislation
  • Smart contracts and their relationship to traditional contract law
  • E-government platforms and digital public services
  • Digitization of legal records, registries, and case law databases
  • Blockchain applications in legal and regulatory processes
  • Interoperability standards across digital legal systems
  • Human-in-the-loop in legal formalization
AREA_06

Adaptive Regulations & Legal Reasoning

13 topics
  • Agile and iterative rule-making for fast-evolving technologies
  • Principles-based vs. rules-based regulatory design
  • Real-time/continuous compliance monitoring (RegTech/SupTech)
  • Sunset clauses and periodic regulatory review mechanisms
  • Co-regulation and self-regulation models
  • Cross-jurisdictional harmonization amid regulatory divergence
  • Dynamical jurisprudence and the modeling of law as a complex system
  • AI-assisted legal research and case prediction tools
  • Computational models of legal argumentation and reasoning
  • Large language models in legal drafting and interpretation
  • Formalization of legal norms for machine processing
  • Limits of algorithmic reasoning in addressing legal indeterminacy/discretion
  • Epistemic and normative risks of outsourcing legal judgment to AI
§ 03  Format & Submissions

A one-day forum for emerging tools and position statements.

  • 01Invited talkFraming the regulatory-technology landscape.
  • 02Paper sessionsShort papers, 15–20 min each, organized around the six areas.
  • 03Closing discussionIdentifying follow-up collaboration opportunities.
  • Submission deadline
  • Short papersmax 5 pages
  • Extended abstracts / demosmax 2 pages
  • FormattingCEUR-WS / JURIX
  • Reviewdouble-blind, PC 10–15
  • Proceedingsopen access · CEUR-WS

We emphasize emerging work, tools, and position statements over fully mature results, reviewed by a Program Committee drawn from the organizers' networks and the broader AI & Law community.

§ 04  Organizing Expertise

Computer scientists and legal experts across the workshop scope.

Computer Science

AI, ontologies, and regulatory infrastructures

Expertise in ontology engineering, machine-readable regulatory vocabularies, knowledge graphs, compliance representation, algorithmic transparency, and digital legal systems.

Legal Expertise

Rights, justice, and EU data governance

Expertise in data protection, fundamental rights, impact assessments, access to justice, procedural safeguards, deliberative democracy, and adaptive regulation.

UPMUniversidad Politécnica de MadridSpain
  • Meem Arafat Manab
  • Sheyla Leyva-Sánchez
  • Fabian Linde
DCUDublin City UniversityIreland
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TCDTrinity College DublinIreland
  • Ruhi Anand Finn
UGentGhent UniversityBelgium
  • Beatriz Esteves
  • Marlin Kisia
UniboUniversity of BolognaItaly
  • Simone Vagnoni
Call for Contributions

Regulatory technology as an instrument of rights.

We welcome short papers, demos, and position statements from researchers and practitioners across AI, data governance, and law. Submissions are due by .

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