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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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VUB student Seliha Buelens won the Student Video Competition "A FLASH OF PRIVACY"
Seliha Buelens is the winner of IAPP’s Westin Scholar Award for VUB for the academic year 2022-23.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt delivers keynote at international MBR conference (8 June 2023)
On 8 June 2023, Mireille Hildebrandt will deliver a keynote at the Ninth International MBR Conference in Rome (7-9 June, Sapienza University) on Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity (Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology). The topic of the...
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