Prof. Antonella D’Andrea
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Title: Rights Protection and Algorithmic Justice.

Abstract: The use of artificial intelligence systems can help overcome certain critical issues in the judicial machine. Their use, however, presents problems of a technical or structural nature, linked to the characteristics of such systems. The transparency of algorithmic decisions and the fairness of computerised decision-making must be guaranteed in all areas and in all cases where choices are made that affect people's rights, freedoms and legitimate interests, as established internationally by Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679 (GDPR) states that the data subject has the right to know about the existence of an automated decision-making process and to receive meaningful information about the logic used, as well as about the relevance and intended consequences of such processing for the data subject. The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), established by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, adopted the European Ethics Charter for the Use of AI in Justice Systems, which is a non-binding instrument but has the merit of establishing substantive and methodological principles. The most important intervention, however, is the recent EU AI Act, which seeks to remedy in a preventive form the most significant critical issues arising from the potential future use of AI technologies and imposes several preventive measures.

BIO: Antonella D'Andrea is Associate Professor of Labour Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (http://didattica.uniroma2.it/docenti/curriculum_vitae/3935-Antonella-Dandrea). She is the author of monographs (‘Salario e TFR nei rapporti di lavoro’ (2009); ‘Il modello legislativo della dirigenza pubblica’ (2009) and ‘La dirigenza sanitaria. Profili di specialità’ of 2013, ’Salario minimo, lavoro e società. A comparative perspective' of 2020), as well as encyclopaedia entries, essays in treatises and commentaries, and articles in Italian and foreign journals. He is a lecturer on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Tor Vergata and coordinates the Master's Degree ‘Tourism Strategy, Cultural Heritage and Made in Italy’ and the Master's Degree ‘Management of School, Educational and Training Institutions’.

He has taught for public and private institutions and participated in research groups of national and international relevance.

She is a contributor to national and international labour and social security law journals.

She has given lectures and speeches at national and international conferences and seminars.