Dr. Halefom Abraha PhD

Dr. Halefom Abraha PhD

Universitair docent
Internationaal en Europees Recht
h.h.abraha@uu.nl

2024

Professional development series for postdocs (4 December 2024, University of Oxford)- panellist 

Workshop on Algorithms, Welfare Automatisation and Social Security (30 September 2024, Copenhagen University)- invited speaker

TILTing Perspectives 2024: “Looking back, moving forward”: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds (July 8-10, 2024)- Speaker

FORESIGHT WORKSHOP organised in the context of the preparation of the SOC/803 opinion - For an artificial intelligence pro-workers: the trade union role to prevent and minimise the negative impacts on the world of work (European Economic and Social Committee, 27 June, Brussels)-panellist

Internet shutdowns as resistance: Rethinking Oppositional Practices (invited speaker)24-26 Jan 2024, workshop co-organised by University of Oxford, Addis Ababa University, and Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2023

AI at Work (Weekly discussion group, co-organiser), Oxford, 2021-present

A Panel Discussion on Egalitarian Digital Privacy (panellist), 29 Dec 2023, University of Oxford

Regulating Cross-Border Data Access for Law Enforcement: Jurisdictional Games (invited speaker), Utrecht University, 14 Nov 2023

Digitalization and Labour Law, Private, Business & Labour Law, (PBLL) research seminar (invited speaker), Tilburg University, 13 November 2023

Regulating Cross-Border Data Access for Law Enforcement: Jurisdictional Games (invited speaker), Tilburg University, 24 Oct 2023

 Algorithms at Work and Future of Tech & Society Discussion Group (invited speaker), University of Oxford, 23 Nov 2023

Schaffarei Conference 2023: Technology assessment from a workers’ perspective (invited speaker), Vorarlberg Chamber of Labour, 24 Nov 2023

 45th Global Privacy Assembly annual conference (panellist), 15-20 Oct 2023, Bermuda 

 Improving GDPR compliance at work: the path ahead (invited speaker), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 19 October 2023

Human Rights at Work: AI and labour law (guest lecture), Australian National University (ANU), College of Law 05 Oct 2023

Regulating Cross-Border Data Access for Law Enforcement (guest lecture), St Anne’s College, Oxford, 20 July 2023

Data protection and the exercise of collective rights: challenges arising from monitoring and surveillance tools, and the role of trade unions and workers’ representatives (panellist), Visionary Analytics, 19 July 2023

International Labour Organization’s eighth Regulating for Decent Work (RDW) conference (panellist), Geneva, 10-12 July 2023

 Labour Law Research Network (LLRN6) conference (panellist), Warsaw, 26-27 June 2023

Fighting Back Against Algorithmic Management from the Bottom-Up (workshop organiser), Oxford, 20 June 2023

Access Now RightsCon; and Mozfest  (panellist) 6 June 2023

British Academy Global Professorship workshop (presenter), Oxford 16 May 2023

Commonwealth Secretariat Conference on Addressing Cybercrime in the Pacific (invited speaker), Papua New Guinea, 7 – 9 February 2023 

2022

5th International Computational Law Forum: Rule of Law in Digital Transformation (invited speaker), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 3 Dec 2022

Schaffarei Conference 2022 (invited speaker), AK Voralberg Schaffarei 24 Nov 2022

New technologies, Human Rights and Justice (guest lecture), St Gallen University, 15 Nov 2022 

Algorithmic Discrimination and the Associated Challenges for Human Rights workshop (panellist), Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, 1 November 2022, 

Building blocks for tech regulation – limitations and advantages of a Business & Human Rights approach (panellist), co-organised by UN Business and Human Rights Programme and Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, 21 October 2022

Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group (invited speaker), Oxford, 11 Oct 2022

Digital Law & Policy Proportionality Principle in IT Regulation (invited speaker), University of Warsaw Sep10 2022

Media Policy Summer Institute (invited speaker), Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford, 4 Aug 2022

Roundtable on Governing AI (panellist), Public Law Project, UK, 26 July 2022

The Race to Regulate AI: Global Comparative Perspectives (conference co-organiser), Oxford, 30 June 2022

Data protection and AI (Roundtable on Algorithmic Management) (panellist), Ada Lovelace Institute, 20 April 2022

Artificial Intelligence at Work (Winter School on Algorithmic State, Market and Society jointly hosted by the University of Florence, the European University Institute, Bocconi University, and the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford) (presenter) 31 January 2022 

Updating the ICO Employment Practices Code (presenter), The Future of Work (IFO) Discussion Series, 12 Jan 2022 

2021

Algorithms at Work -Opportunities, Challenges, and Legal Responses (presenter), University of Lodz, Nov.3, 2021