Reading Seminar: Challenges of AI Governance: Key Elements of the EU AI Act

This reading seminar examines the EU AI Act as the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for regulating artificial intelligence. It introduces the AI Act’s risk-based regulatory model and explores key governance tools, such as transparency obligations for AI systems and transparency obligations for AI-generated content. Particular attention is given to the new regulatory regime for general-purpose and generative AI.

The seminar also places the EU’s approach in a comparative context, contrasting European regulation with emerging governance models in the United States and China. Through close reading of legal texts and analysis of policy debates, we will develop an interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary AI governance and its challenges.

Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM–1:00 PM
Language: English
Participation: max. 15 participants, open only to Graduate Center members

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard), teaches innovation law at the University of Innsbruck and leads research programs at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research (Hans-Bredow-Institute) in Hamburg and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. He is co-editor of a commentary on the DSA/DMA.