Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt is Emeritus Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), where she was appointed by the VUB Research Council on the subject of ‘Interfacing Law and Technology’. She has been co-Director of the Research Group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology from 2019-2024.

She is also Emeritus Professor of ‘Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law’ at the Science Faculty, at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Mireille Hildebrandt is Emeritus Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), where she was appointed by the VUB Research Council on the subject of ‘Interfacing Law and Technology’. She has been co-Director of the Research Group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology from 2019-2024.

She is also Emeritus Professor of ‘Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law’ at the Science Faculty, at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen.

​Her research interests concern the implications of automated decisions, machine learning and mindless artificial agency for law and the rule of law in constitutional democracies.

​Hildebrandt has published 5 scientific monographs, 23 edited volumes or special issues, and over 120 chapters and articles in scientific journals and volumes.

She received an ERC Advanced Grant for her project on ‘Counting as a Human Being in the era of Computational Law’ (2019-2024) for COHUBICOL. In that context, she is co-founder (with Laurence Diver) of the international peer reviewed Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law, her co-Editor in Chief is Frank Pasquale.