Conference: The Sustainable Use of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Work

Modern technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming the work of lawyers at an ever-increasing pace, and substantive answers are needed to resolve the dilemmas associated with this. The opportunity to develop these answers may arise through ongoing dialogue among the professionals involved; however, few such opportunities have arisen so far. We can provide long-term, effective solutions to the problems that arise in legal practice only if we move beyond ad hoc solutions and treating symptoms, and instead seek to understand the essence and deeper layers of the problem.

The purpose of our event is to provide a platform for the youngest generation of researchers to make their voices heard in this discourse, as part of a series of events organized at the ELTE Faculty of Law’s Institute for Legal Research in collaboration with the MTA/ELTE Algorithmic Constitutionalism Momentum Research Group.

Date: November 12, 2026, 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street (House of Humanities, ELTE-CSS Institute for Legal Studies)

Presentations

10:00 Opening Remarks - Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth, ELTE CSS Institute for Legal Research, MTA/ELTE Algorithmic Constitutionalism Momentum Research Group

10:10 Lavinia Regina Simon: Sustainable Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice: A New Balance Between Legal Certainty, Innovation, and Responsibility

10:30 Mónika Morvay: Technological Competence as an Ethical Minimum: The American Model’s Response to the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice

10:50 Mária Tóthné Lakatos: Whose Thoughts Are They, After All? The Art of Prompting as a Phenomenon Urging a Reinterpretation of Freedom of Thought in Theoretical and Practical Legal Research

11:10 Katalin Podonyi: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Government Communication—With Particular Reference to Chatbots

11:30 Renáta Papp: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Crime Prevention—Technologies, Legal Frameworks, and International Practices

11:50 János Szabadkai: Sustainability efforts of business organizations: an environmental management and certification system supporting the operations of environmentally conscious companies; artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative tool for environmental management

12:10 Questions

12:30 Closing Remarks