The EU AI Act: Protecting Individual Rights While Fostering AI Development - A Comparison of EU and US AI Regulatory Initiatives
A Talk by Theodore Boone
Theodore S. Boone is member of the faculty of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary’s leading school of economics and business, and a lawyer at the Budapest office of Dentons, the world’s largest law firm. His experience comes from positions in the United States and Europe at international law firms and in-house as assistant general counsel at EY US. Boone is a former co-chair of the ABA’s International Investment Development and Privatization Committee and of the ABA’s Central and East Europe Law Committee. He is also a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary and a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Law. Most recently Boone taught this fall at the University of Illinois’ College of Law as an adjunct professor.
Boone received his BA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his JD from Columbia University School of Law. He also holds an LLM from Eötvös Loránd University Law School in Budapest. Boone is a former Fulbright Scholar and Bavarian State Grantee in Munich, Germany, at Ludwig Maximilians University, as well as a regular speaker on AI related matters at international conferences. His publications on AI include “The Challenge of Defining Artificial Intelligence in the EU AI Act” which appeared in the Journal of Data Protection and Privacy. Boone is fluent in German and Hungarian in addition to his native English.
This talk is part of the European Union Center's Europe and The World Today Brown Bag Series.