Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynotes at the 'European Sovereignty: The Legal Dimension – A Union in Control of its own Destiny' congress (14 Oct 2022)
To mark its 30th anniversary, the Academy of European Law (ERA) is convening leading legal practitioners, lawmakers and policymakers to explore the legal challenges arising from new sovereignty concepts that have moved to the centre of public debate in recent years, including ‘budgetary sovereignty’...
Read more
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt discusses Artificial Justice: The Quandary of AI in the Courtroom (publication)
In August, U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm of the District of Maryland convened a panel of leading international experts to lend their perspectives on a few difficult societal and ethical questions: What happens when machine-learned and AI-generated data enter the courtroom?
Read more
Impact assessment for artificial intelligence: Protection-by-design of fundamental rights (September-October 2022)
Doctoral researcher Nikolaos Ioannidis (VUB, LSTS, CDSL) proposes a research agenda for ‘’impact assessment considerations in artificial intelligence applications’’ identifying commonalities between the proposed conformity assessment procedure, the data protection impact assessment process an...
Read more
LSTS researchers speak at the 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management (30 August – 2 September 2022)
The 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management takes place virtually from 30 August to 2 September 2022.
Read more
Towards a right to Data Protection Impact Assessment? [August 2022]
EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle fellow Alessandra Calvi (VUB, LSTS, d.pia.lab & CYU, ETIS) proposes a conceptualisation of a “right to DPIA” and suggests how existing legal remedies could (or could not) be used by data subjects and their representatives to enforce it.
Read more
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
In July 2022, Prof.
Read more
Evaluating proportionality of restrictions on freedom of movement during the omicron wave: the case of digital covid certificates [July 2022]
LSTS/HALL PhD researcher Danaja Fabcic Povse ponders upon the proportionality of restrictions on freedom of movement with the use of EU digital covid certificates.
Read more
Tatiana Duarte spoke on Compliance by Design v. Legal Protection by Design (29 June 2022)
The word compliance entered our daily vocabulary, pervading the regulatory strategy and discourse in the European Union law. But what does it mean? What is its role in the legal system?
Read more
Dr. Joanna Mazur visits LSTS
In June dr Joanna Mazur from the University of Warsaw visited LSTS. Dr Mazur presented her current work on data protection and cross-border transfers in regional trade agreements in a WRG session that took place on June 22.
Read more
LSTS welcomes new Blog on its website!
The Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group is happy to witness the launch of a new Blog on its website. The LSTS Blog can be accessed from the landing page of the LSTS website or simply here.
Read more
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presented on 'The Methodenstreit in Machine Learning’
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presented on The New Methodenstreit in Machine Learning at the International Conference on Explaining Machines , at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (the place where famous philosopher Luhmann worked most of his life).
Read more
Tatiana Duarte spoke on Google and Apple Exposure Notifications System at Kozminski University (24 June 2022)
In April 2020 Google and Apple announced a joint project under whose constraints countries could develop proximity tracing apps, called Exposure Notifications (EN).
Read more