[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 School] 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...
[Project] The VUB Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) is happy to announce that, alongside the project coordinator Trilateral Research, they have concluded new contracts...
This chapter confronts the foundational challenges posed to legal theory and legal philosophy by the surge of computational law. Two types of computational law are at stake. On the one hand we have...
[Vacancy] LSTS is looking for a motivated researcher who will work on an action grant under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union in the area of data protection in...
[Series of sessions] The Gender, Technology & Law research group is happy to announce the next edition of its online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021, following the autumn...
On 14 December 2020, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will speak at the panel on 'Automating public administration – Public sector use of AI and fundamental rights implications’ at the online conference '...
[Blogpost] On 9 December 2020, Dr. Dariusz Kloza and Laura Drechsler published a new blogpost entitled: 'Proportionality has come to the GDPR' on the European Law Blog. In their blogpost, Kloza and...
Though we could say ‘what’s in a list’, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt does feel honoured and humbled to feature in the list that was ‘ curated by the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective and recognizes...
[Keynote] On 4 December 2020, Prof Paul de Hert will give the closing keynote speech at the 3rd Istanbul Privacy Symposium - AI: What the Future Holds? Opportunities and Pitfalls. The keynote will...
[Consultancy/Report] Between September 2018 and October 2020, the d.pia.lab (Brussels Laboratory for Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessments), part of VUB-LSTS, has provided its external...
[Blogpost] On 25 November 2020, Professors Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert published a new blogpost on the European Law Blog. In their blogpost entitled ' Refusing to award legal...
[Call for panels] The 9 th edition of Privacy Camp explores the relations between digitalisation, digital rights and infrastructures. 2020 has highlighted the importance of digital infrastructures...
[News] Statements by Prof. Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Franck Dumortier were included in the article 'EU proposals could restrict targeted ads' (16 November 2020), hosted on the Digital Privacy News...
[Publication] LSTS Professors Paul de Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou co-authored a new publication ' Framing Big Data in the Council of Europe and the EU data protection law systems: Adding ‘...
[Talk, Book] LSTS researcher and MSCA fellow Andrés Chomczyk will participate in the presentation of the book ‘Fintech: Aspectos Legales’ (Fintech Law) (volumes III and IV) to discuss his chapter...
The team of the ERC Advanced Grant Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law (COHUBICOL) awarded to Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt is delighted to announce the launch of the Journal of...
[CPDP2021] The registration for CPDP2021 is now open! You can register and find more practical information here . The early bird rates will last till 10 December 2020. An updated preliminary...
