This postgraduate course provides a practice-oriented examination of the legal regulation of artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on the Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act). Designed primarily for law students and legal practitioners, the course develops the doctrinal, analytical, and strategic skills required to interpret, apply, and operationalize AI regulation in real-world contexts.
Adopting a structured, exercise-based methodology, students work directly with legislative texts, compliance scenarios, enforcement decisions, and hypothetical litigation cases. Thematically, the course covers the EU AI Act’s risk-based architecture (including prohibited practices and high-risk systems), the identification of relevant actors and their obligations, supervisory mechanisms and sanctions, geographical scope and extraterritorial reach, and emerging liability regimes, while also addressing the boundaries of the Regulation in relation to military uses and national security, as well as its interaction with broader EU legal frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and treaties like the COE Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights.