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Artificiële Intelligentie & Recht - AI and the Law

AIRecht is a leading legal consultancy firm with a focus on 4th Industrial Revolution technology. Our double educated technologists, such as founder Mauritz Kop and Suzan Slijpen, anticipate on transformative science such as Artificial Intelligence, smart robotics, IoT, cognitive brain-inspired computing, cerebral software, quantum computing, evolutionary algorithms, nature-inspired solutions and big data. We are specialized in regulatory conformity of emerging technologies.

Legal Compliance & Regulatory Conformity

For example, we help our clients prepare for compliance with the EU AI Act, the AI Liability Act, the Data Governance Act, the Quantum Act, and the GDPR. Often, this involves a cross-disciplinary effort. In addition, we conduct due diligence investigations for mergers & acquisitions. We help our clients achieve lawful innovation, investments and growth.

We represent clients from modest tech startups to globally operating multinationals. For questions on EU AI Act obligations — risk classification, your role in the AI value chain, gap analysis and technical documentation — we deliver a grounded readiness assessment and a realistic roadmap toward the phased deadlines, the full application date of August 2, 2026 included.

Curious what the EU AI Act means for your organization? Schedule an advisory call: advies@airecht.nl · +31 20 261 4898.

Publications about AI and Quantum in Healthcare:

We publish at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and on the website of the European Commission about AI and Quantum Technology in the life sciences and healthcare sector, and beyond. See for example:

1. A Brief Quantum Medicine Policy Guide https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/12/06/a-brief-quantum-medicine-policy-guide/

2. How Quantum Technologies May Be Integrated Into Healthcare, What Regulators Should Consider https://law.stanford.edu/publications/how-quantum-technologies-may-be-integrated-into-healthcare-what-regulators-should-consider/

3. EU and US Regulatory Challenges Facing AI Health Care Innovator Firms https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/04/04/eu-and-us-regulatory-challenges-facing-ai-health-care-innovator-firms/

4. Regulating Quantum & AI in Healthcare: A Brief Policy Guide https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/european-ai-alliance/document/regulating-quantum-ai-healthcare-brief-policy-guide

by Mauritz Kop, Suzan Slijpen, Katie Liu, Jin-Hee Lee, Constanze Albrecht & I. Glenn Cohen

Disruptive Innovation

Big technological advances always challenge legal doctrine. As legal pioneers in AI deployment and disruptive innovation policy making, our mission is to remove obstacles to trade, production and investment in robust, social and reliable AI. To strategically maximize the quality of intellectual property on AI input and output in an ethically responsible, human centric manner. Our legal professionals will make certain that your technology complies with law and regulation in both Europe and the United States. Respecting fundamental rights such as freedom of expression & privacy. Ensuring sustainable exponential growth. AIRecht in the media, radio, television and newspapers.

Industries

Our lawyers are working in the nexus of AI & Law and specialize in sectors such as the Pharmaceutical, eHealth, Medical Device, Food & Feed, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Retail, Energy, Transportation & Logistics, Travel, Automotive and Entertainment & Video Game industries. We offer our clients a holostic understanding of sectorspecific rules and regulations, compliance & conformity, from an AI-helicopterview.

Legal consultancy services

We consult and represent our clients in the niche field of AI, blockchain, cloud computing, internetlaw and computerlaw at a national, European and international level. The legal and proactive lawyering services we offer in the area of AI and robotica law cover issues such as performing an AI Impact Assessment, software licensing, commodification of smart products and drones in the Internet of Things (IoT), implementing regulatory compliance, due diligence, data sharing, data sovereignty, drafting and screening international business contracts, smart contracts, algorithmic accountability, privacy requirements for the GDPR in big data, computational ethics, distributed ledger and deep learning implementations, patents, trade secrets, and intellectual property law.

Frontrunners in legal aspects of transformative tech

AIRecht is a leading law firm with a focus on the legal side of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Smart Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Big Data & Predictive Analysis. Our laywers are frontrunners in legal aspects of technological game changers such as AI, blockchain, extended reality (XR), automated professional services, 3D printing, nano-engineering and cognitive computing.

Lawyers

mr. Mauritz Kop advised the European Parliament about the Copyright Reform (online platforms, tech startups, market entry) and the Digital Single Market, teaches intellectual property law at University and Symposia, is a member of the Vereniging voor Auteursrecht (VvA) / Dutch Copyright Society, the European AI Alliance (European Commission), CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe), the Dutch AI Coalition (NL AIC), the ECP|Platform for the Information Society and the World Economic Forum (WEF). Mauritz’ work on regulating AI, machine learning training data and quantum technology has been published by Stanford, Harvard, Yale & Berkeley scholarly journals. His expert commentary has appeared in numerous outlets, including NRC Handelsblad, RTL Nieuws, NPO2 NTR, BNR Nieuwsradio, Radio Veronica, CPO Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen en Leiden Centre of Data Science.
mr. Kop studied intellectual property law, labour law and contract law at Stanford Law School, Maastricht University and VU (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam. Mauritz is a Stanford Law School TTLF Fellow (Stanford University, Silicon Valley, California USA), where he conducts interdisciplinary, comparative research on sustainable disruptive innovation policy pluralism.

mr. Suzan Slijpen teaches European food & feed law, legal aspects of biotechnology, GMO and artificial intelligence at University, and is a member of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Levensmiddelenrecht (NVLR) the Vereniging Farma en Recht (VFenR) and the Nederlandse AI Coalitie. Suzan is a frequently asked international Conference Speaker. She specializes in Pharmaceutical law, Cosmetics, Foodlaw and Consumer law. Suzan studied European private law at Utrecht University and was awarded with the prestigieus Molengraaff Institute prize best thesis of 2015.

Pharmaceutical Law, GMP & API's

In the area of Pharmaceutical Law, we offer services regarding issues such as traceability, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), good distribution practices, permit requirements, patents, product safety and product liability, environmental safety, medicine packaging, national and international quality standards, licenses for pharmaceutical manufacturers, pricing policy, AI-systems in healthcare, blockchain and DLT for Good implementations, eHealth, smart wearables, medical software licenses, care robots, health apps and competition law.

Intellectual Property Law

mr. Mauritz Kop recently published a peer reviewed research article: ‘AI & Intellectual Property: Towards an Articulated Public Domain’. The article offers an accessible, relatively compact Artificial Intelligence (AI) & IP overview analysis and introduces the legal concept of Res Publicae ex Machina (Public Property from the Machine). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3409715

Contract Law

Are you seeking legal advice or help regarding contracts and contractual relationships, contractual requirements, laws and regulations concerning algorithms, blockchain, cloud computing, (training)datasets, machine learning, cognitive computing, robot law, privacy policies and regulations, ethical issues, terms of service, open access or intellectual property? Feel free to contact us using the contact form below!

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