LSTS researcher Irene Kamara won Standards+Innovation Award
Irene Kamara won the Standards+Innovation Award in the category Individual Researcher/Innovator for her research in the field of cybersecurity, privacy, and technical standards. Kamara was nominated by NEN, the Dutch Standardisation Institute.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on Human rights and AI systems (18 October 2021)
The Symposium Human Rights in the Digital Sphere brings together speakers from different legal systems and jurisdictions, experts and governmental representatives to exchange views, while tackling the complexity of protecting human rights in the digital sphere in our daily lives activities.

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Time to Reshape the Digital Society: Anastasiya Kiseleva and Pablo Trigo Kramcsák at CRIDS conference
On Thursday 18 November and Friday 19 November 2021, CRIDS| Namur Digital Institute organises the conference “Time to Reshape the Digital Society” to celebrate the institute's 40th Anniversary.
In Session 1 C | AI, Data and privacy, LSTS researcher Pablo Trigo Kramcsák will tackle the que...
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Prof. Gloria González Fuster at Les journées du CIS 2021: Towards a feminist theory of data protection law? (20 October 2021)
Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster has been invited to give a talk during 'Les journées du CIS 2021', organised by the Centre Internet et Société CIS-CNRS. Her talk 'Vers une théorie féministe du droit à la protection des données à caractère personnel ?
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt publishes on 'navigable and unregulable space(s)'
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt wrote a 'Preface on Navigable and Unregulable Space(s)’ for the Italian/English volume on HUMAN SECURITY IN NAVIGABLE SPACES: COMMON CHALLENGES AND NEW TRENDS, edited by Giorgia Bevilacqua, published in the context of the Project on ‘HUMARCYSPASE.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt and Arno De Bois to give tutorial on 'Law for computer scientists' at ACAI (13 Oct 2021)
Are you a computer scientist and wish to get key insights into what law does, how it operates, why it matters, what law has to do with computer science, the content of legal norms that apply to the processing of personal data, the content of proposed legislation t...
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New paper on lessons learnt from a decade of implementing the European Small Claims Procedure in Italy and Belgium
Marco Giacalone, Irene Abignente & Seyedeh Sajedeh Salehi published in September 2021 a new paper 'Small in value, important in essence: lessons learnt from a decade of implementing the European Small Claims Procedure in Italy and Belgium' in the Journal of Private International Law.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to deliver a keynote on AI Liability and the Ideologies of Traditional Law and Economics (5 Oct 2021)
Smart products, such as smart household appliances, smart health devices or highly automated vehicles, are increasingly finding their way into everyday life. These products raise a number of economic and legal challenges, e.g.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting on the AI Act and Tailored AI systems (21 Sept 2021)
In the framework of the 1st TAILOR Conference, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will discuss the relationship between the 7 key requirements for trustworthy AI of the HLEG on AI and the proposed AI Act.
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Prof. Paul De Hert and Ashwinee Kumar publish new book chapter on Blockchain and Privacy
In July 2021, Prof. De Hert and Researcher Ashwinee Kumar published a new chapter on 'Blockchain, Data Protection, and Privacy'.
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Bram Visser at 2021 EUROCRIM: Regulatory Capture and the Oversight of Police-Use of Surveillance Technology
On 10 September 2021, Bram Visser presented some preliminary findings of a work-in-progress paper co-authored with Prof. Rosamunde Van Brakel on Regulatory Capture and the Oversight of Police-Use of Surveillance Technology at the 2021 online edition of EUROCRIM.
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Olga Gkotsopoulou at the 5th ILLA General Conference: EU Data Protection (and) Legal Language
On 7 September 2021, LSTS researcher Olga Gkotsopoulou presented in the 5th ILLA General Conference ' Language and the Law in the Age of Migration', which took place at the University of Alicante in Spain.
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