Fundamental rights law is increasingly operating in environments that differ significantly from those in which it was originally developed.

On Monday 8 June 2026, from 13:00h to 14:00h CET, LSTS visiting scholar Jakub Míšek (Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University) will present his work in prog

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LSTS Researcher, Vanessa Ugolini, Postdoctoral Researcher on the DATAUNION Project, will deliver a talk as part of the DIGITAL-EU × University of Lincoln School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) webinar series, Dialogues on

This interactive workshop critically examines the gendered, racialised, and class-based harms emerging from wearable technologies such as Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses.

This is to warmly invite you in the (next) next LSTS Doctoral Seminar that will be held by Marius Kühne, Visiting Researchers at LSTS on Wednesday 22 October from 12:30 to 13:30 CET in room C4.09 and online via Teams (link below).

Join us at the upcoming LSTS Doctoral Seminar by Megan Leal Causton, a PhD candidate at 

You are warmly invited to our next Gender, Law, and Technology Reading Group session, which will take place on Tuesday 21 October 2025 from 12:30 to 13:30 CET, both in person (room C4.024) and online via Teams.

You are warmly invited to our next Gender, Law, and Technology session titled "The admission of Afghan women as a particular social group.

You are warmly invited to our next Gender, Law, and Technology session titled "The admission of Afghan women as a particular social group.

You are warmly invited to our next Gender, Law, and Technology Reading Group session, which will take place on Tuesday 21 October 2025 from 12:30 to 13:30 CET, both in person (room C4.024) and online via Teams.

You are warmly invited to our next Gender, Law, and Technology Reading Group session, which will take place on Friday 12 September 2025 from 12:30 to 13:30 CET, both 

You are warmly invited to the next session of the Gender, Law, and Technology Reading Group, which will take place on Thursday 10 July 2025, from 12:30 to 13:30 CET, in roo

Carrying out and navigating sensitive fieldwork

LSTS visiting Researcher Francesco Casaril will present his work in progress, Cybersecurity in the Space Domain: Laws, Gaps, and a Metric-Based Risk Framework.

Join us at the latest in the LSTS seminar series with visiting researcher Marcin Rojszczak. Marcin is an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Privacy Law at the University of Gdańsk.

If you are interested in staying up to date on the latest judgments of the EU Court of Justice in the data protection field, do not miss the Monthly Digital Coffees co-organised by DPSN and LSTS-VUB.

The next Health and Ageing Law Lab (HELT) talk will take place on 30th May, from 13:00 - 15:00 in the Green Room of U-Residence VUB.

LSTS researcher Thiago Moraes will present his work in progress

If you are interested in staying up to date on the latest judgments of the EU Court of Justice in the data protection field, do not miss the Monthly Digital Coffees co-organised by DPSN and LSTS-VUB.

In this session, we will discuss EU General Court’s Judgment in Joined Cases T-70/23, T-84/23 and T-111/23 (Irish Data Protection Commission v EDPB) on the competences of the EDPB under Article 65(1)(a) GDPR.

LSTS Researcher Anastasia Nefeli Vidaki will present her work in progress at this Doctoral Seminar entitled: ‘The Principle of Natural J

Join us for the next Doctoral Seminar from visiting scholar Gwendolin Barnard (PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz) who will present their work-in-progress, entitled “The interrelationship of worker participation and the EU AI Act”

Divergencies of Gender Discrimination in the EU AI Act Through Feminist Epistemologies: Unpacking Epistemic Controversies and Gender Bias in EU AI Law

On 21 March 2025, 14:00 to 15:00 CET, LSTS visiting scholar Francesca Tassinari (postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Public Law, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)) will present her work-in-progress, entitled “Post-Brexit Law Enforcement Cooperation:

Join us for the next in the HELT (Health, Law, and Technology) Talks series where we will be joined by speakers Mr. SASCHA MARSCHANG (European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) , Health Action International) and Ms.

On 17 February 2025, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, Mathias Hanson (PhD student at the VUB Data Lab) will present his work-in-progress, entitled ‘Embedding Legal Foundations in AI: Shaping Machine Learning with Legal Norms and Rules’, followed by discussio

LSTS is delighted to support the upcoming edition of the Privacy Symposium conference in Venice, Italy during May 12-16, 2025. The conference aims to promote international dialogue, cooperation, and knowledge-sharing on data regulation, compliance, and innovative technologies.

Anastasiya Kiseleva will defend her PhD in Law and Computer Science on Tuesday 21st January at 14:30, titled 'Transparent Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare:  A Multilayered Accountability Framework Integrating Law and Computer Science to Address Technological and

MAKING CHOICES IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY TO ASSIST CONSENT 

SUPERVISORS. 

• Prof. dr. Paul De Hert Vrije Universiteit Brussel 
• Prof. dr. Paul Quinn Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

JURY MEMBERS. 

From Blueprint to Reality

• Implementing AI Regulatory Sandboxes under the AI Act

Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: FARI Auditorium, Cantersteen 16, 1000 Brussels

The Brussels Privacy Hub is proud to announce its first Winter Academy for AI & Law Crossroads. As AI increasingly mediates decisions impacting individuals, institutions, and society, the EU has responded with a comprehensive digital rulebook.

On 10 December 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, Ketevani Kukava (College of Europe, Fellow, EU4Youth - Natolin Fellowship Programme) will present her work-in-progress, entitled ‘Secret Surveillance in Georgia: The Urgent Need for Reform to Ensure Respect for EU Values and Stand

The Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments, (d.pia.lab) is pleased to announce the third seminar in a series called "Non-objective risk to a right".

On 26 November 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, Prof.

On 21 November 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, LSTS visiting scholar Eric Repetto (PhD Candidate at the Center for International Studies (CERI) in Sciences Po Paris) will present his work-in-progress, entitled ‘Sovereign bullies?

On 31 October 2024, 13:00h - 14:00h CET, LSTS visiting scholar Stefano Tramacere (PhD Candidate at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa) will present his work-in-progress, entitled ‘Enhancing transparency and accountability: operational rules for the design of hig

On 11 September 2024, 13:00h - 14:00h CET, LSTS visiting scholar Tommaso Crepax (PhD Candidate at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa) will present his work-in-progress, entitled ‘The Right to Data Portability: Navigating Legal and Technical

On 19 June 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, LSTS visiting scholar Francesco Paolo Levantino (PhD Candidate at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa) will

On 4 June 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, LSTS visiting scholar Zuzanna Choińska (Ph.D.

On 4 April 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET, LSTS member Pablo Trigo Kramcsák will present his PhD research,

Simone Casiraghi will defend his PhD thesis in Law on Friday 22 March 2024 at 3 p.m., titled: ‘The “Ethification” of Artificial Intelligence.

Alexandra Karaiskou, PhD student at the  European University Institute (EUI), is visiting the LSTS during this semester.

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Juraj Sajfert will defend his doctoral thesis in Law, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paul de Hert of LSTS and Prof. Dr.

Paola Galatà, PhD student at the University of Cagliari, is visiting the LSTS during this semester.

On 15 December 2023, 12:30 to 13:30 CET, Sanna Toropainen (doctoral candidate at the Legal Tech Lab at Helsinki University) will present her research entitled ‘Digital identity wallets - user empowerment at the cost of privacy?’.

The "Gender, Law & Technology" Reading Group by LSTS is set to take place at FARI premises in BeCentral (Cantersteen 16, 1000 Brussels) on November 29, 2023, from 10:00 to 12:00 CET.

Sophia Bordier, PhD student in Political Sciences at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, is visiting the LSTS during this semester.

Suvina Singal, Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, is visiting the LSTS during this semester. 

The Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) is hosting a Doctoral Seminar series, providing a platform for PhD candidates working on privacy and data protection topics at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) to present and discuss their work in progress.

The Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) is hosting a Doctoral Seminar series, providing a platform for PhD candidates working on privacy and data protection topics at the Law, Science, Technology and Society

Ricard Martínez, professor in the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the University of Valencia, is visiting the LSTS during this semester.

On the 6th of June a seminar will take place on the topic of Databases and Artificial Intelligences: a scholarly and artistic perspective (10 AM - 5 PM). This seminar forms part of the DATAUNION Seminar Series of the DATAUNION project of PI Prof.

Dr Jaroslaw Greser, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, is visiting the LSTS during this semester. He is currently working on the legal possibilities and limitations of using synthetic data in the medical sector.

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 Society (LSTS) to present and discuss their work in progress.

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 Society (LSTS) to present and discuss their work in progress.

On the 24th of April 2023 at 16h00 LSTS researcer René Mahieu will publicly defend his doctoral thesis entitled 'The right of access of personal data in the EU. A Legal and empirical analysis'.

The PROTECT MSCA ITN  is coming to an end and its closing symposium, titled ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses’, will take place on May 23 in

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 Society (LSTS) to present and discuss their work in progress.

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 Society (LSTS) to present and discuss their work in progress.

The Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) is organising its inaugural HELT (Health, law, and Technology) Symposium 2023. The symposium will take place on 26^th April 2023 at the ‘Sparks Venue – Rue Ravenstein 60’ in the center of Brussels.

Workshop introduction and objective

The COHUBICOL project is organising an event on 24 March 2023 on Prof.

In April 2020, Google and Apple launched a joint-project that claimed to streamline the report of Covid-19 positive cases to the Health Authorities while complying with the right to data protection and to privacy. 

The Brussels Privacy Hub is proud to announce the next installment in its Meet the Author Series, held for the first time in two years in-person.

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in May, June and July 2021, after its spring and autumn cycles. 

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in May, June and July 2021, after its spring and autumn cycles. 

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021. 

On 22 April 2021, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies is hosting a book launch of '

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 Society (LSTS) to present and discuss their work in progress.

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021. 

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021. 

Final Conference on Small Claims Dispute Resolution for Consumers - A European Approach 

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in October, November and December 2020. 

The CREA project partners are pleased to announce, the CREA Final International Conference 2019 is scheduled to take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on 27th September 2019. 

For already almost 20 years, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU) has distinguished the rights to privacy and data protection as two fundamental rights – one established by its Article 7, and the second by Article 8.