The last and closing session will be attended by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, the Basque Minister Juan Ignacio Pérez and the Rector of Deusto, Juan José Etxeberria.
27 March 2025, Bilbao Campus
The University of Deusto and Cuatrecasas Lawyers, in collaboration with Marsh McLennan, will bring together leading experts on 27 and 28 March to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the development of Artificial Intelligence in relation to fundamental rights. The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, will take part in this III International Conference on Law and Artificial Intelligence, which will be held in the Auditorium of the academic centre.
The Dean of Law at the University of Deusto, José Ramón Intxaurbe; Professor of Civil Law at Deusto and partner at Cuatrecasas, David Fernández de Retana; and Professor of Civil Law, also at Deusto, Inmaculada Herbosa, will open the conference at 9:15 am. Then, Omar Puertas, AI Technology Strategic Advisor and partner at Cuatrecasas, will give the inaugural conference on ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Law: the next frontier’.
The day will continue with various round tables and conferences on the implications of AI in the public and private spheres, criminal liability and the balance between technology and fundamental rights. Among them, the session on ‘Risks and liability arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence in the field of business and its managers’ will have as speakers Ainhoa Barrutia from Cuatrecasas; Sofía García-Ollauri, Head of Financial and Professional Claims Advocacy at Marsh; María Ortiz de Guinea, Risk and Insurance Management at Iberdrola; and Álvaro Fraile, Global Cybersecurity Services Director at Ayesa. In addition, Rafael Sánchez-Aristi, from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and partner at Cuatrecasas, will give a talk on ‘The training of Artificial Intelligence systems and intellectual property rights: the scope of the text and data mining limit’, among other interventions.
AI in health and insurance
On the second day, from 09:00 to 14:00, the Congress will focus on the impact of fundamental rights in key sectors such as health, consumer affairs and insurance. It will also address risks and liabilities in business, the right to effective judicial protection and legal reasoning. In addition, new technologies and fundamental rights will be explored from a labour perspective, the role of the media in the right to information, and how AI affects civil liability for defective products.
Ignacio García-Perrote, professor of Labour Law at the UNED and magistrate of the 4th Chamber of the Supreme Court, will give the keynote lecture on ‘New technologies and fundamental rights from the labour perspective’ and Mariano Yzquierdo, professor of Civil Law at the Complutense University, who will give the keynote lecture ‘Artificial Intelligence and consumption: How does Artificial Intelligence affect civil liability for defective products’.
This last day will be completed with a session, at 12:45 pm, on ‘Artificial Intelligence and citizens’ rights. A vision from the institutions’, with Juan Ignacio Pérez, Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government, and Minister Félix Bolaños as speakers. The International Congress will be closed by Javier Fontcuberta, Managing Director of Cuatrecasas, and Juan José Etxeberria, Rector of the University of Deusto.