Legal Aspects of Digital Transformation Conference
The pace of technological innovation is exacerbating in an unprecedented rate to the extent that several generations of technology became outdated already before governing them legally. Undoubtedly, this contributes to opening new horizons of scientific breakthroughs and economic growth that reflects in an overall quality of life to human beings. Nevertheless, and just like any other social phenomenon, legal questions arise from the deployment of novel technologies especially those enjoying autonomy.
By and large, digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how to operate and deliver value to customers. In this regard, this has culminated in the emergence of top-notch technologies that enjoy autonomy opposing human beings. Having a self-driving car, decision-making systems or killer robots are indeed unprecedented challenges that needs to be legally and socially addressed. In another context, the new category of markets; namely digital markets, are witnessed completely new notions of competitions that are being characterized by their dependence on data.
The Egyptian legal system has never encountered the idea of artificial or technology generated subjects that may or could impose material harm or do a legal transaction in the same way a human being would do. Thus, it is of utter importance to validate such legal incidents from the lens of the Egyptian positive law as well as the Sharia law as the mother school of the modern system.
There are several legal jurisdictions that started to take firm steps towards regulating the use of metaverse, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligent agents since there is an urge to have legal rules to govern their functioning and the potential threats that might arise. Although there is legal rules or landmark legal precedents to date, there is a growing interest towards formulating national strategies and legal framework to set out the main principles, fundamental rights and goals that are sought to be achieved.
Egypt has launched a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy that aims to promote the use of artificial intelligence in both the public and private sectors.
The Egyptian Private sector is on track as well. Establishing the first Egyptian city in the metaverse was a milestone that proves the willingness of the Egyptian youth and innovators to adopt digital solutions and maximize the benefits of emerging technologies.
As manifested in Egypt’s vision 2030, mega changes on the scientific and legal arenas were alert. Serious steps have already been taken towards governing modern technologies in a way to maintain balance between human rights without hindering the scientific innovation. This is clearly viewed in the promulgation of a set of laws in this area such as data protection law, central bank law, combatting cybercrime law, e-signature law. In the same vein, several governmental bodies have been established to implement the national strategies and monitor the execution such as: Egyptian Competition Authority.
▶ Conference Pillars
Pillar One: Legal Dimensions of Digital Transformation on Diverse Sectors.
1. Digital Transformation in public sector (Legal Opportunities and Challenges);
2. Regulating, protecting and securing digital infrastructure
3. Digital Transformation in health sector: legal regulation perspective
4. The effect of Digital Transformation on legal professions
5. Financial inclusion and financial technology legal dimensions
6. Legal Aspects of Bio-tech implications
Pillar Two: The Legal Approach to Civil Rights and Transactions in Technology-Oriented World.
1. New Approaches for the Legal Personality
2. Privacy and Data Protection in the era of Digital Transformation
3. Digital rights and new perspectives of right
4. Constitutional Rights Guarantees in the world of Technology
Pillar Three: Digital Markets: Economics and Legal perspectives.
1. Ecommerce Regulations: An International Perspective
2. Competition, Consumer Protection and overseas transactions in Digital Markets
3. Digital Transformation and New Contracting Techniques
4. The Protection of IP Rights in Digitally Transformed Environment.
Pillar Four: Digital Policies and Regulations Design in the Era of Digital Transformation (Effect on Substantive and Procedural law) & Compliance and Law Enforcement Challenges.
1. The legal regulations of new and emerging technologies
2. Judicial procedural in the new dawn of technology
3. Rob-justice in the Egyptian legal systems
4. The Right of Fair Trail in the digitally transformed courts.
Pillar Five: New Types and Concepts of Crimes in the Digitally Transformed World.
1. Possible new forms of criminal actions in a digitally transformed world
2. Cybercrime in the digital ecosystem
3. Challenges of Digital Evidence
4. Legal system and conflict of jurisdiction in prosecuting cybercrime
5. The Use of Emerging Technologies in Criminal Justice.
▶ Conference Timeline
▶ Papers' Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines
• Submitted papers should tackle one of the thematic issues of the conference, related to what is mentioned in the main pillars, Originality and Contribution to the existing body of knowledge is important.
• All manuscripts should be original and should not be published elsewhere, before or under current peer review in either any conference or Academic Journal.
• Submitted paper will be blindly peer-reviewed and the researcher will be notified of the outcome on the above-mentioned deadline.
• Accepted papers shall be published in a special edition of the Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies (JOLETs).
• An abstract/proposal between 150 to 300 words should be submitted electronically to [conference.law@bue.edu.eg].
• All manuscripts should be sent in Microsoft Word format, electronically only, to: conference.law@bue.edu.eg, because it will be a blind review, the manuscript must not identify the author in the body of the paper.
• The manuscript should include a separate title page containing the following information: the title of the piece; author’s or authors’ name(s); institutional affiliation(s); email address(es); mailing address(es); phone number(s); and a short abstract of 150 words or less.
• All footnotes should be in compliance with the Authors’ guidelines on the website of the Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies (JOLETs) accessible on [https://jolets.org/ojs/index.php/jolets/AuthorGuidelines].
• The preferred length of full paper (without footnotes) is between 7000 (minimum limit) and 10000 words (maximum limit). In general, please confine your paper between 35- 40 pages, everything included. It must include an Abstract (no more than 300 words) and 3-5 Keywords.
• Note that: when you submit your research to the journal, you have to select the section named "Conference Research" and the category named "Conference: Legal Aspects of Digital transformation" and it is optional to select other categories as well that your research might be related to.
▶ Conference Registration
For registration:
All conference participants must pay the conference registration fee.
The conference registration fee includes:
• Admission to scientific sessions
• Admission to all conference side activities and talks
• All-Conference materials
• Tea/coffee and lunch during the conference days
• Certificate of Attendance
• Publishing papers in JOLETs special edition (Authors and Participants ONLY)
Registration Fees:
