Conference Announcement: We Robot at Miami

We Robot 2012: Setting the Agenda
April 21–22, 2012
University of Miami School of Law

Saturday, April 21st

8:00am
Registration and Breakfast

8:30am
Welcome
Vice Dean Patrick O. Gudridge, University of Miami School of Law

8:35am
Introductory Remarks
A. Michael Froomkin, Program Chair

8:45am
How Should The Law Think About Robots?
Neil Richards & William Smart
Discussant: Annemarie Bridy

10:00am
Break

10:15am
Liquid Robotics
Suneil Thomas

11:30am
Break

11:45am
Confronting Automated Law Enforcement
Lisa Shay, Gregory Conti, Woodrow Hartzog, John Nelson & Dominic Larkin
Disussant: Mary Anne Franks

1:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm
Regulation of and Liability For Risks of Physical Injury From “Sophisticated Robots”
F. Patrick Hubbard
Discussant: Samir Chopra

3:15pm
Break

3:30pm
Panel Presentation: Social Issues in Robotics
Moderator: Ryan Calo

Extending Legal Rights to Robots Based on Anthromorphism, Kate Darling
Sex, Robots and Roboticization of Consent, Sinziana Gutia
We Robot: Setting Up The Legal And Social Framework for “Robocalisation”, Olivier Lecomte & Francois Xavier Albouy
Liar Liar Pants on Fire! Examining the Constitutionality of Enhanced Robo-Interrogation, Kristen Thomasen

5:00pm
End of First Day

Sunday, April 22nd

8:00am
Registration and Breakfast

8:30am
Machine Agency
Josh Storrs Hall
Discussant: Peter Asaro

9:45am
Break

10:00am
Robots Working with Autism
Daniel Messenger (INVITED)

11:15am
Break

11:30am
Delegation, Relinquishment and Responsibility: The Prospect of Robot Experts Ian Kerr & Jason Millar
Disussant: A. Michael Froomkin

12:45pm
Lunch

Lunch-time break-out: The Future of We Robot
A. Michael Froomkin & Committee of the Whole

1:45pm
Work-in-Progress Presentation: Open Roboethics: Establishing an Online Community for Accelerated Policy and Design Change
Ajung Moon, Ergun Calisgan, Fiorella Operto, Gianmarco Veruggio & H.F. Machiel Van der Loos

3:00pmm
Break

3:15pm
Panel Presentation: Military Robotics
Moderator: Bernard H. Oxman

When Machines Kill: Criminal Responsibility for International Crimes Committed by Lethal Autonomous Robots, Oren Gross
Don’t Robots Have Politics?, Ian Kerr & Katie Szilagyi
The Intersection: The Rules of War and The Use of Unarmed, Remotely Operated, and Autonomous Robotics Systems Platform and Weapons… Some Cautions, Richard O’Meara
The Dehumanization of International Humanitarian Law: Independently Operating Weapon System and Modern Armed Conflict, Markus Wagner

4:45
Final Remarks