LSTS

Welcome to the website of the interdisciplinary Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), focusing upon the articulations of law, science, technology, ethics and society.

News

Monday 11 October

Time to Reshape the Digital Society: Anastasiya Kiseleva and Pablo Trigo Kramcsák at CRIDS conference

On Thursday 18 November and Friday 19 November 2021, CRIDS| Namur Digital Institute organises the conference “Time to Reshape the Digital Society” to celebrate the institute's 40 th Anniversary. In...

Wednesday 6 October

Prof. Gloria González Fuster at Les journées du CIS 2021: Towards a feminist theory of data protection law? (20 October 2021)

Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster has been invited to give a talk during 'Les journées du CIS 2021', organised by the Centre Internet et Société CIS-CNRS . Her talk 'Vers une théorie féministe du...

Thursday 30 September

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt publishes on 'navigable and unregulable space(s)'

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt wrote a 'Preface on Navigable and Unregulable Space(s)’ for the Italian/English volume on HUMAN SECURITY IN NAVIGABLE SPACES: COMMON CHALLENGES AND NEW TRENDS, edited by...

Monday 27 September

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt and Arno De Bois to give tutorial on 'Law for computer scientists' at ACAI (13 Oct 2021)

Are you a computer scientist and wish to get key insights into what law does, how it operates, why it matters, what law has to do with computer science, the content of legal norms that apply to the...

Friday 24 September

New paper on lessons learnt from a decade of implementing the European Small Claims Procedure in Italy and Belgium

Marco Giacalone , Irene Abignente & Seyedeh Sajedeh Salehi published in September 2021 a new paper ' Small in value, important in essence: lessons learnt from a decade of implementing the...

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Upcoming events

Wednesday 27 October from 13:00 to 14:30

VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies Seminar: EU border surveillance and the use of AI

On 27 October 2021, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies will host a seminar on ' EU border surveillance and the use of AI ' with Niovi Vavoula. The event will take place on MS Teams. For more...

Tuesday 9 November from 12:30 to 13:30

Brussels Privacy Hub Doctoral seminar with Laura Drechsler on 'The role of data subject rights in international personal data transfers under the GDPR and the LED'

The Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) is organising a Doctoral Seminar series to give the opportunity to Ph.D. candidates working on privacy and data protection topics at the Law, Science, Technology and...

Tuesday 16 November from 14:00 to 17:00

5th Annual Brussels Privacy Virtual Symposium 2021 - Introducing the Age of AI Regulation: Global Strategic Directions

Save the date for the 2021 Brussels Privacy Symposium! On 16 November 2021 , from 14:00 to 17:00 CET (8:00-11:00 ET) For the fifth annual Brussels Privacy Symposium , we are bringing together key...

Tuesday 23 November from 12:30 to 13:30

Brussels Privacy Hub Doctoral seminar with guest speaker Laurens Naudts (KU Leuven)