Interview with estadodiario (Chile) on the AI Act now online
Now online, an interview with Professor Gloria González Fuster on estadodiario.com (an online platform dedicated to the legal world and legal market in Chile).
Read more
LSTS Researcher recent publication in Journal of European Consumer and market law
Titled 'Consumer Law and the Regulation of the Free Flow of Data: Upsetting the Balance of the European Data Protection Framework' - the article looks at how regulation of data is now spread over various legal disciplines as the free flow of data and the creation of a ‘genuine single market for dat...
Read more
Opinion piece in De Tijd from LSTS' Paul De Hert - 31 May 2024
Paul De Hert and Rosamunde van Brakel published an opinion piece observing that massive data storage of Internet traffic seems inevitable in Europe, while more and more governments insist on decrypting encryption so they can see messages.
Read more
Welcome to visiting researcher Zuzanna Choińska at LSTS!
Zuzanna Choinska graduated with a law degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. Currently, she is a Ph.D.
Read more
Call for Participation: Teaching with Data Rights - Deadline 10 January 2024
We invite expressions of interest for an international workshop on Teaching with Data Rights, hosted by the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on Friday 9 February 2024, in Brussels (Belgium).
Read more
Final publication of the COHUBICOL Research Study on Computational Law
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt's ERC Advanced Grant project COHUBICOL has published the final version of its Research Study on Computational Law. Written by postdoctoral researchers Pauline McBride and Laurence Diver, the study is one of the core outputs of the project.
Read more
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt publishes chapter on 'Grounding computational 'law' in legal education and professional legal training'
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt has contributed a chapter in the recently published Research Handbook on Law and Technology (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).
Read more
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt reviews 'The Prediction Society: Algorithms and the Problems of Forecasting the Future' by Matsumi & Solove
Prof. dr. Mireille Hildebrandt (Co-director LSTS) has written a Technology Law JOTWELL review of LSTS researcher Hideyuki Matsumi's and George Washington University Prof.
Read more
When are we finally going to get an EU citation style?
Vagelis Papakonstantinou writes on citation styles in Academic writing in law. Those of us involved in academic writing, specifically with legal writing, are all too familiar with the problem: there is no EU-specific citation style.
Read more
Synthetic data and Medical AI – where do we stand?
Jarosław Greser writes a guest blog-post on the legal possibilities and limitations of using synthetic data in the medical sector. Introduction The concept of synthetic data is of increasing interest to researchers and practitioners.
Read more
The paper “Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective” by Alessandra Calvi and Dimitris Kotzinos obtains a Best Paper Award at FAccT 2023
On 12 June 2023, EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle fellow and LSTS researcher Alessandra Calvi (d.pia.lab, LSTS, VUB; lab. ETIS UMR 8051, CYU) presented a paper entitled “Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective” co-authored with Prof.
Read more