Program

11:30 – 12:00 – Welcome & Registration of participants

Rules as Code & Administrative Simplification (12:00 – 15:30) – Designed for public servants

12:00 – 12:30 – Gregory Lewkowicz & David Restrepo Amariles, Rules as Code (RaC) and the SimpLex project in Brussels: An Introduction to a New Perspective on Policymaking and Legislation Drafting

12:30 – 12:50 – Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Digital-Ready Legislation in Denmark

12:50 – 13:10 – Kate Hannah & Zoë Rillstone, RaC for Legislation Drafting in Jersey

13:15 – 14:00 – Roundtables Lunch “RaC in practice”: Discussion with experts

14:00 – 14:20 – Laurence Diver & Masha Medvedeva, The Typology of Legal Technologies: A Web Tool to Explore Legal Technologies

14:20 – 14:40 – Thomas Guillet & Mauko Quiroga, OpenFisca: The Open Source Platform to Write Rules as Code

14:40 – 15:00 – Sandra Chakroun & Benoît Courty, The Case of Leximpact at the French National Assembly

15:00 – 15:30 – General Discussion: What Remains to Be Done in the Region of Brussels ?

Rules as Code & Digital-Ready Legislation (16:00 – 18:30)

15:30 – 16:00 – Welcome & Registration of Participants

16:00 – 16:20 – Welcome Speeches

Bernard Clerfayt, Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Digital Transition

Representative of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Representative of the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre

16:20 – 17:00 – The SimpLex Project: Building a Regional Legislation Database & AI-based Tools for Better Legislation

Youcef Bouharaoua, Hakim Boulahya, Simone Casalena, Xander De Valkeneer, Raphaël Gyory, Gregory Lewkowicz, David Restrepo Amariles, Raffaele Todesco

17:00 – 17:15 – Pause

17:15 – 18:15 – Rules as Code & Digital-Ready Legislations in Practice

Sandra Chakroun, Benoît Courty, Thomas Guillet, Kate Hannah, Mireille Hildebrandt, Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Mauko Quiroga, Zoë Rillstone.

18:15 – 18:30 – Gregory Lewkowicz, Conclusion – Legal Innovation for the Capital of Europe : The Way Ahead

18:30 – Cocktail

Speakers

• Youcef Bouharaoua, Researcher, Perelman Centre – Smart Law Hub, ULB
• Hakim Boulahya, Researcher, Perelman Centre – Smart Law Hub, ULB
• Simone Casalena, Research Assistant, Perelman Centre – Smart Law Hub, ULB
• Sandra Chakroun, Leximpact, French National Assembly (France)
• Bernard Clerfayt, Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Digital Transition
• Benoît Courty, Leximpact, French National Assembly (France)
• Xander De Valkeneer, Legal Advisor, Easy.Brussels
• Laurence Diver, Researcher, LSTS, VUB
• Thomas Guillet, OpenFisca (France)
• Raphaël Gyory, Researcher, IRIDIA, ULB
• Kate Hannah, Legislative Drafting Office, States of Jersey (Jersey)
• Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor at VUB, co-Director of LSTS
• Gregory Lewkowicz, Professor at ULB, Perelman Centre – Smart Law Hub (Brussels)
• Masha Medvedeva, Researcher, LSTS, VUB
• Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Chief adviser, Division for Analysis and Policy, Secretariat for digital-ready legislation (Denmark)
• Mauko Quiroga, OpenFisca (France)
• David Restrepo Amariles, Professor at HEC-Paris, Smart Law Hub (Paris)
• Zoë Rillstone, Legislative Drafting Office, States of Jersey (Jersey)
• Raffaele Todesco, Researcher, Perelman Centre – Smart Law Hub, ULB