His thesis, La preuve en droit des systèmes d'intelligence artificielle (Evidence in the Law of Artificial Intelligence Systems), addresses a fundamental question: how can we ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) systems meet the requirements of our legal systems, when law often frames its obligations in vague terms while AI systems operate according to precise quantitative logic? To answer this, Ronan Pons examines the role that legal evidence plays within the law governing AI systems.
The thesis was completed as a joint supervision arrangement and co-directed by Professor Céline Castets-Renard, Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence and Full Professor at the Civil Law Section, and by Jessica Eynard, Senior Lecturer at the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole. For his work, Ronan Pons also received the 2024 Paris Bar Medal, which recognizes the best doctoral thesis in law written in French at the Faculty of Law.
Holding a licence in private law and a Master's degree in digital law from the Université de Toulouse, Ronan Pons has focused throughout his academic career on the legal challenges of the digital world, particularly the protection of individuals against algorithmic discrimination.
We congratulate Ronan Pons on this achievement and are pleased to see his work recognized by the academic community.