On December 10 2025, the presentation of the book titled "The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Public Sector – Humans and AI Systems in Public Administration in light of the European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence of 2024" will take place. The event, starts at 4:00 PM (Barcelona-Rome time/10:00 AM Philadelphia time), can be followed in person (Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona – RSVP: redtem.nmr@gmail.com ) or online ( https://ub-edu.zoom.us/j/92754692802 ).
After the welcome and presentation by Drs. Juli Ponce and Agustí Cerrillo , the Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Regulation will take place between the Pennsylvania University Prof. Cary Coglianese and LUMSA University of Rome Prof. Nicoletta Rangone .
The book The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Public Sector – Humans and AI Systems in Public Administration in the light of the European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence of 2024 includes a Foreword written by USA professor Cary Coglianese , an Introduction by the Editors, Professors Juli Ponce and Agustí Cerrillo-i-Martinez , and ten contributions from different European specialists in relation to the EU regulation on AI passed in 2024, also known as the Artificial Intelligence Act (or AI Act).
The European Union has defined a new legal framework with the new AI Act for the development and use of artificial intelligence in Europe, which is expected to become a global model for regulating this disruptive technology. This new legal framework focuses on being human-centric and respectful of European Union values and human rights while boosting innovation. The AI Act's purpose is therefore to improve the functioning of the internal market by laying down a uniform legal framework. Furthermore, the AI Act pursues to ensure the protection of health, safety, fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental protection. To that end, the AI Act lays down harmonized rules for the placing on the market, the putting into service, and the use of AI systems in the European Union; prohibitions of certain AI practices; specific requirements for high-risk AI systems and obligations for providers and deployers of such systems; transparency rules for certain AI systems; harmonized rules for the placement on the market of general purpose AI models; and rules on market monitoring, market surveillance governance and enforcement.
The book considers all those and other related aspects and includes different chapters written by experts in Law, AI and behavioral insights, which analyze the EU Regulation with a transdisciplinary perspective.
The book, emerged from the Symposium Public Administration and the EU Proposal for a Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, has been published by EPLO Publications as part of the European Public Law Series/Bibliothèque de Droit Public Européen and is available here.
