Paul de Hert

Professor of Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Faculty of Law & Criminology, LSTS (Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society), and Tilburg University (TILT), Netherlands. Internationally recognised scholar in EU data-protection law, AI regulation, and human-rights aspects of algorithmic governance.

Contributions in this wiki

sources/2023-lazcoz-dehert-humans-in-gdpr-and-aia-governance — Doctrinal analysis of human intervention under GDPR Art. 22 and the AI Act (Computer Law & Security Review 50, 2023). Co-authored with entities/guillermo-lazcoz.

External work referenced (not in this wiki)

"When GDPR-principles blind each other. Accountability, not transparency, at the heart of algorithmic governance" (with Lazcoz), 8 European Data Protection Law Review 31 (2022).
"Radical rewriting of Article 22 GDPR on machine decisions in the AI era" (with Lazcoz), European Law Blog, 13 Oct 2021.
"Post GDPR EU laws and their GDPR mimesis. DGA, DSA, DMA and the EU regulation of AI" (with Papakonstantinou), European Law Blog, 1 April 2021.

Significance

Hub author for the legal-risk cluster on AI process automation. His work is the bridge between GDPR doctrinal analysis and AI Act governance — particularly the argument that human intervention in ADM should be reframed as a procedural right tied to GDPR's accountability principle, not as an individual right.

Co-author: entities/guillermo-lazcoz. Topical neighbours: concepts/gdpr-article-22 · concepts/eu-ai-act · concepts/dpia · concepts/human-oversight.