Safe the date: Lecture at the DSI: "The Brussels Effect and Legal Transplants between the EU-Latin America's AI Policy and Governance"
Our Stehr-Boldt Fellow, Diego Borbón, will present a Guest Lecture for the Digital Society Initiative the 28th of November on «The Brussels Effect and Legal Transplants between the EU-Latin America's AI Policy and Governance».
This lecture examines how European regulatory frameworks, through the so-called Brussels Effect, influence debates on artificial intelligence governance in Latin America, where legal transplants often draw—partially or entirely—on the EU’s AI Act. It situates these dynamics within the region’s institutional, cultural, and socioeconomic realities, emphasizing both the opportunities and the frictions that arise when regulations designed for Europe are imported without critical adaptation.
While the AI Act itself has faced criticism and remains largely untested, such concerns are rarely acknowledged in Latin American policy debates. This lecture studies this phenomenon from a comparative perspective. The event will be followed by a discussion and Apéro.