A presentation of the book: "The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Public Sector: Humans and AI Systems in Public Administration in the Light of the European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence" took place on 10 December 2025 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona. The event was held in a hybrid format.
The session was opened by the book Editors, Professors Juli Ponce Solé (University of Barcelona) and Agustí Cerrillo i Martínez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), who welcomed participants and introduced the themes of the book.
Cary Coglianese, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the Foreword, and Nicoletta Rangone, Professor at the LUMSA University of Rome, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre on Sustainable Artifical Intelligence for Regulation and author, engaged in a Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Regulation from the American and European perspectives.
About the Book
The book “The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Public Sector - Humans and AI Systems in Public Administration in the light of the European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence of 2024”, edited by Professors J. Ponce and A. Cerrillo-i-Martínez, includes a Foreword written by USA professor Cary Coglianese, an Introduction by the Editors, Professors Juli Ponce and Agustí Cerrillo-i-Martinez, and ten contributions from different European specialists in relation to the EU Regulation on AI passed in 2024, also known as the Artificial Intelligence Act (or AI Act).
The European Union has defined a new legal framework with the new AI Act for the development and use of artificial intelligence in Europe, which is expected to become a global model for regulating this disruptive technology. This new legal framework focuses on being human-centric and respectful of European Union values and human rights while boosting innovation. The AI Act’s purpose is therefore to improve the functioning of the internal market by laying down a uniform legal framework. Furthermore, the AI Act pursues to ensure the protection of health, safety, fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental protection. To that end, the AI Act lays down harmonized rules for the placing on the market, the putting into service, and the use of AI systems in the European Union; prohibitions of certain AI practices; specific requirements for high-risk AI systems and obligations for providers and deployers of such systems; transparency rules for certain AI systems; harmonized rules for the placing on the market of general purpose AI models; and rules on market monitoring, market surveillance governance and enforcement.
The book considers all those and other related aspects and includes different chapters written by experts in Law, AI and behavioral insights, which analyze the EU Regulation with a transdisciplinary perspective.
It is published by the EPLO as part of the European Public Law Series (EPLS) – vol. CXXVIII.
