Researcher Javier García Speaks at International Conference on the Future of Public Law

On behalf of the Faculty of Law of Universidad de Las Américas, Javier García, academic of law and Convergent Regulation co-researcher, participated in the 10th Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICONS)..

The event’s main topic was “The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence”. The conference, held at the Faculty of Law of the IE University campus in Madrid, gathered more than two thousand academics from all continents.

The purpose was to discuss and reflect on the various transformations that public law is experiencing as a result of contemporary social challenges such as the search for sustainability, the artificial intelligence revolution and, in a broader sense, the need for resilience in a world of exponential changes.

In this context, Professor García presented his paper “Critical Factors for a Convergent Regulatory Institutionalism of Communications”. In his presentation, he shared the progress of the research conducted as part of Fondecyt Project 1230748, which, as he explained, “systematizes information of various international experiences with constituting regulatory institutions of convergence in communications in order to identify best practices that can be replicated in the Chilean context”.

Additionally, the UDLA academic participated in the XXI International Congress of the International Forum on Communication Law and Ethics (FIEDI) held at the Faculty of Humanities and Information Sciences of CEU San Pablo University in Madrid.

This year, the congress focused on the topic “New Challenges of Ethics and the Right to Information: Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Rights”.

During his intervention, García presented a deep analysis of content moderation on social media by judicial bodies in Chile. He shared statistics and sentences that illustrate how Chilean courts act as content moderators on digital platforms.

To conclude, the researcher highlighted the forum’s importance in discussing and reflecting on communication from an ethical and legal perspective.

He expressed:

“Discussions around the European regulations on media freedom and the risk that countries can use them to restrict communications were especially relevant. I am grateful to all the organizers and participants for this space for mutual enrichment and learning.”

Original text at UDLA web.