DIGITAL LEGAL STUDIES - Key Persons
Aimen Taimur is a PhD Researcher at Tilburg University in the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT). Her research is focused on the Human Rights defence of cognitive liberty from threats posed by manipulative AI.
Ana-Maria Hriscu is a PhD candidate within the Digital Legal Studies project "Concepts in a data-centric regulatory paradigm", sub-project "Consent & contracts", at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on privacy & data protection, consumer and contract law in the context of data-driven technologies.
andré janssen is a professor of private law, focusing particularly on contract law, tort law, european private law, and the intersection between law & ai. he is the editor-in-chief of the european review of private law (ERPL).
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- Assistant Professor of Criminal Law
Anna Pivaty is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Researcher on Conflict-Solving Institutions at Radboud University. Her current research focuses, among other topics, on digitalisation of courts and conflict resolution.
Anna van Duin is a researcher and lecturer specialising in Civil Procedure. She focuses on access to justice and effective remedies for private parties. She has a particular interest in the digital transformation of judicial decision-making and the role of technology in the civil justice system.
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- Assistant Professor for Privacy, Security
Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux is an Assistant Professor for Privacy, Security, and Computational Law at Maastricht University. She has a background in law and economics and is specialized in research at the intersection of law and digital technologies with a particular focus on privacy, data protection, design approaches for privacy-friendly technologies, transparency of automated decision-making, automatically processable regulation, and trust in automation.
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- Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law
Aviva de Groot is a postdoctoral researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT). Her research interests broadly concern humans, justice, and technology. Their mutual shaping, and how this affects our understanding of rules and the values that drive them.
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- Associate Professor of European Law at Radboud University
Catalin Rusu is Associate Professor of European Law at Radboud University. Catalin's research focuses on the dynamic role that EU competition law plays in the Internal Market and the distinct approaches to competition law enforcement in different (European) jurisdictions.
Charmian Lim is a phd researcher on law & Ai at Tilburg University. within the digital legal studies group, she is involved in a research project that explores the impact of AI, data science and automation on the legal system.
Christina Winters is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Technology, Law and Society (TILT). As a psychologist, she focuses on identity maintenance and its relationship with citizens' digital privacy behaviors and trust attitudes toward data-driven organizations.
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- Professor of Technology, Law & Human Rights
Eleni Kosta is a professor in technology, law and human rights. She is working on privacy and data protection, specialising in electronic communications and new technologies, as well as on health law.
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- Assistant Professor in Conflict Solving Institutions and Digital Conflict Resolution at Radboud University Nijmegen
Assistant Professor in conflict solving institutions & digital conflict resolution
Enguerrand Marique is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Solving Institutions and Digital conflict resolution at Radboud University Nijmegen and a guest lecturer at the UCLouvain. His current research addresses conflict resolution between users and platforms.
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- Professor in Digital Technology Regulation
Esther Keymolen is professor in digital technology regulation at the tilburg institute for law, technology, and society (TILT). Her research focuses on how legal notions of liability, accountability and responsibility take shape in socio-technical contexts, and how these notions align or conflict with ethical values such as trust and trustworthiness.
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- Researcher at the Institute for Information Law
Eva van der Graaf is a PhD researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) and the Department of Jurisprudence (ARL, Amsterdam Law School). Her research combines philosophy and law, and focuses on the impact of digitalized and automated contexts on legal reasoning and (judicial) decision-making.
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- Professor of Data Science and the Judiciary
Floris Bex is professor in data science and the judiciary. He studies how people reason, how this reasoning can be captured in formal models, and how it can be supported and improved using AI technologies.
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- Professor of ICT and Law at Radboud University Nijmegen
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius is Professor of ICT and Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is affiliated with the interdisciplinary research hub on Security, Privacy, and Data Governance: the iHub. His research interests include privacy, data protection, and discrimination, especially in the context of new technologies.
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- Assistant Professor Regulation of Labour at the University of Amsterdam
Giedo Jansen is Assistant Professor Regulation of Labour at the University of Amsterdam, AIAS-HSI. His research is multidisciplinary and spans various academic disciplines, including sociology, political science and labor relations. Currently, his research increasingly focuses on the ‘future of work', and specifically studies how technological innovations (e.g., automation, digitalization, algorithmic management) transform work structures and power relations.
Gijs van Dijck is an empirical legal scholar who specialises in tort law, insolvency law, and contract law. He uses empirical legal research methods and data sciences methods, network analysis in particular, to analyse legal issues. he co-manages the maastricht law & tech lab.
Gustavo Arosemena is an assistant professor in the department of international and European Law at Maastricht University. He works in the field of human rights and legal reasoning. In particular, he is interested in conflicts and tradeoffs between human rights and their political implications, as well as case law analytics.
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- Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the University
Hadassa Noorda is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam. She works in the area of philosophy of criminal law. Prior to joing the University of Amsterdam, Hadassa was a postdoctoral researcher at NYU's Center for Law and Philosophy, Columbia Law School, and Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy
Hellen van der Kroef is a PhD researcher on the use of multilingual legal knowledge graphs to assist in EU law-making. She completed a double master's degree in European and International Law at respectively the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Toulouse. Additionally, she followed a well-credited course in web development at a private institution in Amsterdam, after which she worked as a programmer until starting her PhD.
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- Associate Researcher at the Institute for Information Law
Ilaria Buri is as an associate researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), where her activity is focused on the Digital Services Act Observatory. Prior to joining IViR, Ilaria was a researcher at the University of Leuven (CITIP), where she worked on several EU-funded projects dealing with data protection, cybersecurity and e-health-related matters.
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- Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law
Irene Kamara is Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). Her research explores norm-making and enforcement in the digital environment. Her teaching focuses on cybersecurity law, data protection, and non-discrimination.
Jay Doerga is a PhD candidate and lecturer at Radboud University. In his research he focuses on collective redress for violations of privacy laws.
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- Assistant Professor at the Institute for Information Law
Jef Ausloos is an assistant professor at the Institute for Information Law and. His work centres around several information law issues, and in particular data protection, data rights, transparency, and governance of digital infrastructures.
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- Assistant Professor at the Department of Data Science
Jerry Spanakis is an assistant professor at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University and the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab. His current research lies in the area of Social Machine Learning.
Jill Toh is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR). Her work looks at the concept and power of online platforms through technology, law and political economy approaches, in order to explore new regulatory forms of data governance.
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- Post - Doctoral Researcher
Joran van Apeldoorn is a Post-doctoral researcher on Quantum Computing & Semidefinite Optimisation. He is a pure mathematician with a focus on theoretical computer science and some interest in physics.
Ljubiša Metikoš is a PhD Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR), the RPA HumaneAI and the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence. He researches the social implications and the underlying values of automated decision making by the state from a regulatory and (legal) philosophical perspective.
Marcus Meyer is an assistant professor of labour law in a corporate context and leader of the Cross-border Corporate Mobility in the EU project. His research combines empirical legal research and data science methods to unravel the legal complexity of corporate transactions in a cross-border context and its implications for company stakeholders.
Marvin van Bekkum studied both Law and Computing Science at Radboud University. He works as a PhD Candidate at the Interdisciplinary Research Hub on Digitalization and Society (iHub) at Radboud University. His research focuses on Non-discrimination by and Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance Sector.
Michelle Liu is a PhD candidate at the Radboud Business Law Institute. She researches new forms of vulnerability of consumers that come with digitalisation. Her PhD thesis will deal with digital vulnerability in EU law and Chinese law.
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- Professor of Information Law, and Director of the Amsterdam Graduate School of Law
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- Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute of Information Law
Naomi Appelman is a PhD researcher at the Amsterdam Institute of Information Law (IViR), specialising in online speech regulation. Her research combines law and philosophy and focuses on strengthening the legal position of users by means of enabling legal contestation of the control over online speech.
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- Professor of Law and Digital
Natali Helberger is a Professor of Law and Digital Technology, with a special focus on AI. Her research investigates the social and legal implications of digital technology and automated decision making.
Paddy Leerssen is a PhD Candidate in Law with a broad interest in media and communications law. His PhD project explores how European law shapes the transparency and accountability of algorithmic content distribution in social media platforms. To this end the combines legal analysis with insights from communications science and media studies. Paddy is also a non-resident fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, where he was a research fellow in 2017-2018.
Pieter Wolters is an associate professor of cybersecurity, privacy and law. His research topics include the private enforcement of privacy law, legal obligations to provide secure software, and the European framework for cybersecurity and privacy rules.
Pietro ortolani is professor of digital conflict resolution at radboud university nijmegen. He is admitted to the Bar in Italy and he also works as a practitioner, mainly in the field of arbitration.
Rachel Rietveld focuses on the intersection of law and technology, both in her practice and her research. She develops expert systems in order to make law more accessible. Her PhD research is on the potential and limitations of legal tech, ethical dilemmas and how to build a framework for the legal use of artificial intelligence.
Raphaël Gellert is an assistant professor in private law and ICT. Looking into the computational turn, his research tries to problematise the contemporary modes of operation of law. In this ambit he looks at cases stemming from data protection, e-commerce, product liability, or cybersecurity.
rohan nanda holds a phd in legal informatics and computer science. His research focuses on data science, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies in the context of law.
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- Assistant Professor of Criminology at Maastricht University
Roland Moerland is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Maastricht University. His research focuses on gross human rights violations and state (corporate) crime. He also has a special interest in how processes of denial facilitate the perpetration of such crimes.
Ronald Leenes is a professor in regulation by technology and head of the department of law, technology, markets & society (ltms) at Tilburg University. his research focuses on privacy, ai & legal issues of robotics.
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- Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law
Shweta Reddy Degalahal is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University, focusing on the need to expand the informational privacy rights of individuals to the digital public sphere.
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- Researcher at the Global Data Justice Project
Siddharth Peter de Souza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Data Justice Project at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. His work explores how data is governed globally in contested, and plural settings, and he is interested in the role that social movements and civil society can play in shaping governance frameworks.
Svetlana Yakovleva is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on cross-border digital trade, data protection and data governance.
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- Assistant Professor in Tort Law, Data Protection & AI
Tim Walree is an assistant professor at Radboud University. His research focuses on tort law, data protection and AI.
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- Researcher on Smart Contracts & Conflict Resolution
Tom Vennmanns is a PhD candidate in smart contracts and conflict resolution, who focuses on the legal and societal challenges of the digital age. His research interests include AI, legal tech and Blockchain technology.
Yong Yong Hu is a PhD candidate in law and cybersecurity at Radboud University. Her research focuses on the EU cybersecurity framework, and the legal obligations for the reliability and security of digital information.
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