Our long-standing collaboration with Slovenian partner institutions took a step forward this week in Maribor, where the group was represented by Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth, principal investigator, and Rebeka Kiss, junior research fellow, who recently joined the team.

Over the course of 19–22 July, they held working meetings with Luka Martin Tomažič (Vice-Rector for Research, Alma Mater Europaea), Daniel Siter (Alma Mater Europaea – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis), and Jan Stajnko (University of Maribor Faculty of Law).

The main item on the agenda was the closing of the forthcoming volume Algorithmic Constitutionalism: Theory, Institutions and Fundamental Rights in the Age of AI (eds. Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth, Rudolf Berkes), to be published this autumn by L'Harmattan. The volume presents the results of the research group's first two years in six studies, ranging from the theoretical questions of AI legal personhood through platform regulation to the data protection and environmental dimensions of AI-based workplace monitoring. The discussions also addressed further joint publication plans, opportunities for European funding cooperation, and closer institutional ties between the Slovenian and Hungarian legal academic communities.

We thank our Slovenian colleagues for their hospitality and for a productive series of discussions.