The EU Digital Strategy sketches an ambitious approach to sculpt Europe's digital future - covering areas and issues as diverse as the digital economy and value extraction from industrial data, to...
On June 24, 2021, 11:30 - 12:30 am ET (5:30 - 6:30 pm CEST) , Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster is invited to speak in the event 'Privacy Rights and Data Flows – A Conversation with Max Schrems '. The...
On 16 June 2021 , Prof Rosamunde Van Brakel will give a presentation titled 'AI in criminal intelligence: how effective can a predictive machine-learning approach be? ' The talk is part of the ERA...
LSTS co-director, Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster will chair a session on ' Does the Future of AI Regulation Look Like? EU, USA and Canada Perspectives ' on 15 June 2021 at the Annual Meeting of the...
CPDP is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and the CPDP team will follow recommendations concerning travel and public events. At this time, the team is continuing preparations for CPDP2022 to...
The next Repair Café for Digital Rights Talk on 'The Platform Economy' will take place on Thursday 17 June 2021 , at 17.00 –18.30 (Brussels local time) , online. Currently, platform workers are...
The European Law Blog hosts a new article by LSTS Reseacher and FWO Aspirant Juraj Sajfert , ' The Big Brother Watch and Centrum för Rättvisa judgments of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of...
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt calls for human dignity meaning that humans should not be in the loop but respected and in charge . On 1 June, Mireille Hildebrandt spoke at the EU Digital 2021: Leading...
On 27 May 2021, LSTS Researcher and FWO Aspirant Juraj Sajfert provided a statement at Tech Monitor concerning the GCHQ bulk surveillance ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. Specifically,...
The EU proposal for a future regulation on AI focuses on fundamental rights, conformity assessment, supervisory authorities, certifications and other key points. This regulatory mix will be discussed...
Professor Gloria González Fuster announced this week the official launch of the Data Protection Law Scholars Network ! This is a new initiative that aims at facilitating academic exchanges between...
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mirelle Hildebrandt will hold the Casterman-Hamers Chair on the History and Philosophy of Sciences in 2022-2024. Hildebrandt has been working on the cusp of...
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC ) 2021 will take place on 3 and 4 June 2021 and will be hosted online by the Georgetown University Law Center ! LSTS reseachers and affiliated reseachers...
LSTS is launching a new call for applications for two PhD researcher positions in the MSCA ITN LeADS (Legality Attentive Data Scientists). The emergence of data science has raised a wide range of...
The ARC - Awareness Raising Campaign for SMEs project team, consisiting of the Vrije University Brussels, the Croatian DPA (AZOP) and the Irish DPA (DPC), is honored and delighted to announce the...
AI4Belgium Ethics & Law is bringing together AI policy experts to provide insights about the content and consequences of the AI Regulation. Mireille Hildebrandt will join the panel discussion '...
On Friday, 14th of May, at 9:00 am (Vienna time) the Ars Boni Special episode on the proposed AI regulation will feature Prof. Gloria González Fuster , Cornelia Kutterer, O.J. Gstrein and Sofia...
On 19 May 2021, Prof. Gloria González Fuster will take part in the W@Privacy Webinar on “COVID-19 certificates: A golden ticket to the new normality…but at what cost?” Join this W@Privacy panel to...
On 19 May 2021, LSTS researchers Laura Drechsler and Juraj Sajfert will speak at the European Law academy (ERA) seminar on ‘ Data Protection and the Law Enforcement Directive ’. Laura’s talk will...
Andrés Chomczyk, LSTS researcher and MSCA fellow at the PROTECT European Training Network , will participate on May 7, 2021 in a webinar about new data governance models and their implications on...
A new article has been published in the Communications of the ACM. ' Understanding Law and the Rule of Law: A Plea to Augment CS Curricula' by Mireille Hildebrandt can be accessed here .
With her presentation titled ‘What data protection can do for you?’, LSTS researcher Laura Drechsler convinced the jury at the pre-selections taking place on 20 April 2021 and entered the final round...
The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce the next edition of its online sessions to take place in May, June and July following the spring cycle. The Gender, Technology &...
What is the status of integration of 'legal tech' in the legal practice? What does the implementation of intelligent legal software mean for the relationship between the legal practitioner and the...
This year, two LSTS researchers Anastasiya Kiseleva and Laura Drechsler are participating in the VUB Doctoral Derby – a competition about explain ing scientific research to a general audience! At...
Professor Kuner has published a new paper on the relationship between territorial scope and data transfer rules in the Cambridge Law Faculty Research Paper Series. The paper can be found here ...
On Wednesday, April 21, 19:30 – 21:00 Brussels time, Prof. Paul De Hert will participate at MO*talks , organised by MO* and deBuren. From cameras on the street to social media: everyone’s right to...
For another year, LSTS researchers will be present at the Conference TILTing Perspectives to discuss their work on several and diverse subjects. TILTing2021 will be focusing on Regulating in times of...
The WG Hart legal workshop on 'New Perspectives on Jurisdiction and the Criminal Law' organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies will take place on 26-28 April 2021. Prof. Mireille...
[Prize] Researcher Simone Casiraghi has been awarded by EURA (European Centre of Excellence on the Regulation of Robotics & AI) the EURA young scholars prize for the paper The ‘Ethification’ of...
'Courts of the future - the future of courts' is an online workshop series organised by the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute that takes a deep dive into the role of...
[Summer Academy] The regulation of personal data transfers has been a prime concern for privacy and data protection law for decades, and is nowadays more important and challenging than ever. The...
The Dutch Research School of Phylosophy (OZSW) and the University of Amsterdam is organising the Spring School 'Judging the Robojudge: Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Using Artificial Intelligence...
[Blogpost] Professors Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul De Hert have published a new blogpost 'Post GDPR EU laws and their GDPR mimesis. DGA, DSA, DMA and the EU regulation of AI'. In their blogpost...
[Event] On 8 April 2021, LSTS co-director Prof. González Fuster will participate at the 2021 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law Symposium , on the evolution of technology and gender related...
The Simons Collaboration on the Theory of Algorithmic Fairness has invited Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to its TOC4Fairness seminar series to speak on The framing powers of ML . The research design of...
[Publication] CDSL's Prof. Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Dimitra Markopoulou published a new article on "The regulatory framework for the protection of critical infrastructures against cyberthreats:...
[New Research Institute] The Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society is one of the ten core research teams of FARI-Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good Institute . FARI is an...
The 'Democracy in a digital future' international conference on 25-26 March 2021 will bring together experts, academics and political representatives to address the role of government and public...
In her latest Jotwell post 'Practical and effective protection’ of human rights in the era of data-driven tech: Understanding European constitutional law' , Hildebrandt reviews Janneke Gerards' book...
During the Belgian Artificial Intelligence week (15-19 March 2021), Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will present the European perspective on AI, law and the future of AI regulation. She will be joined by...
[News statements] Recently, LSTS Researcher and FWO aspirant Juraj Sajfert shared his thoughts with Sebastian Klovig Skelton for ComputerWeekly.com on the upcoming adequacy decision for the UK under...
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will have a 'fireside' chat with computer scientist Richard Buckland of University New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney on why law matters for computer science education and...
On International Women’s Day, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will do a live podcast with Tatiana Löttiger. Even though Prof. Hildebrandt does not believe in fixed identities and does not identify as a...
[Workshop] Prof Rosamunde Van Brakel has been invited to participate in the closed workshop Crime Forecasting and Predictive Policing Tech Salon organised by the Policing Project at New York...
[Event] On April 22 nd , 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 (Brussels time), the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies will host online the Launch of the Book 'The Algorithmic Society - Technology, Power, and Knowledge...
[Book] The STAR II (SupporT small And medium enterprises on the data protection Reform II) consortium is pleased to announce the publication of The GDPR made simple(r) for SMEs . The user-friendly...
[Event] On 8 March 2021, Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster will participate in the event 'Privacy Through the Lenses of Race and Gender', with Anita Allen. The event will take place online from 20:00...
(Event) On Wednesday, 3 March 2021 (14:00-16:00 CET), ALTEP-DP invites Carmela Troncoso to provide a Computer Science perspective about the Exposure Notifications system and to engage on a dialogue...
[Talk] On 15 February 2021, Prof. Paul Quinn took part in the event "Medical Device Regulation and Digital Health: Problems and Perspectives" organized by the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (...
On Monday 15 February, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will give an informal talk at the Stokes Society (of Pembroke College of Cambridge University) where she will briefly introduce her views on ‘Robust...
[Blogpost] Yanhong Yin and Prof. Vagelis Papakonstantinou published on 4 Febuary 2021 a blog post on IAPP's Privacy Tracker on 'China's Draft Privacy Bill: A pragmatic, but yet-to-be improved...
[Event] On 4 February 2021, at 10 a.m EST/16:00 CET, in the event 'The Legal Anthropology of Data Protection: A Conversation with Paul De Hert', IAPP's Omer Tene and Prof. Paul de Hert (Vrije...
[Grant] Pablo Trigo Kramcsák joined LSTS in January 2021 as a PhD student, funded by the “Becas Chile scholarship in digital transformation and technological revolution”, awarded by the Chilean...
[Talk] Prof. Rosamunde Van Brakel has been invited to speak in a panel on ' Using Data to Predict Unsocial Behaviour and Crime: Myth or Reality?' , at the symposium ' Data and the public order: From...
[Article] The European Pharmaceutical Law Review (EPLR) has listed the 5 most popular articles of the 2020 year. The paper of Anastasiya Kiseleva titled ' AI as a Medical Device: Is it Enough to...
[Talk] Professor Gloria González Fuster will animate the session 'Artificial Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Why is everybody calling for ethics if what they mean is law?', as part of the next...
[Vacancy] LSTS is looking for a motivated researcher to join its team on the use of patient data in the context of innovative healthcare methods. The successful applicant will work with the Health...
[Blogpost] A new blogpost by Professor Vagelis Papakonstantinou features on the European Law Blog . Inspired by the recent release by the European Commission of the draft Digital Services Act and the...
[Project/Event] The Repair Cafés for Digital Rights - Brussels (BXL) present their brand-new page! Moreover, the first Repair Café for Digital Rights - Brussels will be held digitally on Thursday 18...
[Webinar] The second webinar of the new Enforcing Europe - Webinar Series, in media partnership with Privacy Laws & Business , takes place on 8 February 2021. The webinar discuss the Proposal of...
Computation is poised to transform legal services, legal systems, and the law itself. Making the most of innovation and technology, and understanding the benefits and risks, requires deep...
[Visiting scholar] Guillermo Lazcoz arrived in Brussels on the 4 th of January 2021, and he is joining LSTS as a visiting PhD-student for the next three months, until the 3 rd of April 2021. He is...
[Conference] The Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are pleased to invite you to the Small Claims Analysis Net (SCAN) project final conference, where...
On 19 January 2021, the Hilary Term AI4Law workshop series at Faculty of Law, University of Oxford will start with the workshop ‘Data-Driven Law on Edge?’ where Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will give a...
[Event] Registrations for #PrivacyCamp21 are now open! #PrivacyCamp21 will be live on 26 January 2021, from 10.00 – 16.05 CET. Privacy Camp is an annual conference held the day before the start of...
[Books of the Year] As per tradition, every year the members of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are invited to reflect on the...
[Seminars] The VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies , coordinated by Prof. Dr. Rosamunde van Brakel , is delighted to announce two new seminars that will take place in February and March 2021...
