TILT

TILTing Perspectives on Regulating Technologies (2008)

Conference Programme

Marjolein van Asselt
Professor dr.ir. Marjolein B.A. van Asselt (1969) is holding the Risk Governance chair at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. In 2006-2007, she was also appointed at the Dr. Tans chair. Marjolein is appointed as member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid - WRR) for the period 2008-2012. Since 2005, Marjolein is member of the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie - DJA) of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW).

Upendra Baxi
Professor Upendra Baxi is Professor of Law in Development working for the University of Warwick. Upendra served as a Professor of Law at the University of Delhi (1973-1996) and as its Vice Chancellor (1990-1994.) He as also served as: Vice Chancellor, University of South Gujarat, Surat (1982-1985); Honorary Director (Research) The Indian Law Institute (1885-1988.) He was the President of the Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995.) The University of California at Berkely awarded him with a Doctorate in Juristic Sciences. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the National Law School University of India, Bangalore, and the University of La Trobe, Melbourne.

Roger Brownsword
Since 2003, Professor Roger Brownsword has led the development of TELOS, an inter-disciplinary research centre focussing on law, ethics, and technology at King's College London. He is a Honorary Professor in Law for the University of Sheffield. In recent years, Professor Brownsword has acted as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Stems Cells and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee; he is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2003-2004; he has served as co-editor of the Articles section of the Modern Law Review; and he is a member of the Law panel for the Research Assessment Exercise in 2008.

Dan Burk
Professor Dan L. Burk hold the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law chair at Stanford University and is an internationally prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, who specializes in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology. Dan is a Residential Fellow at the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to his arrival at the University of Minnesota, Professor Burk taught at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and has served as a legal advisor to a variety of private, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union Committee on Patent Policy, the OECD Committee on Consumer Protection, and the United States State Department Working Group on Intellectual Property, Interoperability, and Standards.

Ybo Buruma
Professor Ybo Buruma (1955) is professor of Criminal Law at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Ybo is an advisor to the Dutch government on, among others, terrorism and European Criminal Law. He is a member of the Social Sciences Council of the the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and a judge for the Arnhem High Court. Ybo is also on the editorial board of the journal Nederland Juristenblad. He is the chair of the Toegangscommissie Evaluatie Afgesloten Strafzaken, Commissie Posthumus-II a committee for review of criminal cases.

Wolfgang van den Daele
Professor Dr. Wolfgang van de Daele is the Director of the Research Unit: Civil Society and Transnational Networks at the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, Germany. He is Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Before moving to the Free University of Berlin, he held a professorship in Science Research for the University of Bielefeld, Germany and was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was also a researcher for the Max Planck Institute. In the late eighties, Wolfgang was a member of the German Federal Parliament's Select Committee on 'Opportunities and Risks of Genetic Engineering'. Since 2001, he is a member of the National Board of Ethics for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Jos Dumortier
Jos Dumortier is Full Professor in Law for the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology (ICRI) at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1991 he was the co-founder of this institute of which he became the first Director. He is member of the editorial board of "Computerrecht" and "Mediarecht" and editor-in-chief of "Mediagids Telecommunicatie". He is also a Board Member of BELTUG, the Belgian Telecommunications Users Assocation, and of SGOA (Mediation and Arbitration in IT Conflicts). He was part-time Consultant at the Cabinet of the Minister of Justice, works as an Advisor to the European Commission and is Chairman of the Legal Interest Group and Board Member of EEMA (www.eema.org).

Mireille Hildebrandt
dr. Mireille Hildebrandt is associate professor / senior researcher at the Centre for Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) at the Free University of Brussels. She teaches law and legal theory at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Mireille is involved in the European Network of Excellence on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS) as a coordinator for the subject of profiling technologies.

Christian Joerges
Christian Joerges is Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. From 1998 to the end of 2007 he was the co-director for the Centre for European Law and Policy (ZERP) at the University of Bremen. As a visiting scholar, he worked at the Columbia University School of Law and New York University School of Law. Christian worked as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Interdisciplinary Research Programme on Governance in the European Union and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Connecting Excellence on European Governance (Connex). He is co-editor of the European Law Journal. Review of European Law in Context, and of International Studies in the Theory of Private Law.

Jeroen van den Hoven
Jeroen van den Hoven is part-time full professor (Socrates Chair) at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and management at Delft University of Technology. He is also Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at The Australian National University, Canberra. He is Editor in Chief of Ethics and Information Technology (Springer) and Founding Chair of the CEPE (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry -conferences (Erasmus University Rotterdam, LSE, Dartmouth College, Lancaster University, Boston College, University of Twente (2005)).He is member of the editorial board of Information, Computers and Society (Routledge). Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society and consulting editor of Episteme. He is also member of the board of the International Society for Information Ethics.

Angela Liberatore
dr. Angela Liberatore works for the European Commission DG research Social Sciences and Humanities Programme as Project Officer. She holds a PhD in Political and Sciences and a Degree in Philosophy and wrote on issues related to risk management, science/policy interface, environmental and security policies and European governance.

Geertrui Van Overwalle (keynote speaker)
Geertrui Van Overwalle (Dr. Iur., 1995, Leuven) is head of the Patent Law Research Group at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Her fields of research are patent law, plant breeder's rights law, patents and biotechnology, IP and biodiversity, IP and ethics. She is author of numerous national and international articles and monographies in the field of patent law. She recently published a book on Gene Patents and Public Health, Brussel, Bruylant, 2007. Another book, Gene Patents and Clearing Models. From Patent Pools, Clearing Houses, Open Source to Liability Regimes is going to press with Cambridge University Press.
Professor Van Overwalle teaches Intellectual Property Law and Patent Law at the University of Leuven and the University of Liège. She has been visiting Professor at the United Nations University (2000-2003) and Monash University, Melbourne (2003).

Charles Raab
Charles D. Raab is Professor of Government at the University of Edinburgh (as from October 1999). He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Visiting Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), and was a Visiting Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. For many years, he has taught and carried out research on information policy, including privacy protection and public access to information, and has published widely in academic journals and edited books. He is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of nine journals in the fields of information policy and public policy. He is the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution's Inquiry into 'The Impact of Surveillance and Data Collection upon the Privacy of Citizens and their Relationship with the State' (2007-08).

Joel Reidenberg
Joel R. Reidenberg is Professor of Law and a past Director of the Graduate Program in Law at Fordham University School of Law. Reidenberg has held appointments as a visiting professor at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), at the Université de Paris V (René Descartes) and at AT&T Laboratories - Public Policy Research . He is an expert on information technology law and policy. Reidenberg served as a consultant to both the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission on privacy issues, and served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Washington in connection with privacy litigation. He has also chaired the Section on Defamation and Privacy of the Association of American Law Schools (the academic society for American law professors) and is a former chair of the association's Section on Law and Computers.

Rikard Stankiewicz
Rikard Stankiewicz is Professor of Science and Technology Governance at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1988 be became Associate Professor of R&D Management and Policy at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University. Between 1996 and 1998 he served as Professor of Technology Dynamics at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. In 1998 he became Professor of Science and Technology Policy and the director of Research Policy Institute at Lund University.

Andy Stirling
Professor Andrew Stirling is Director of Science for SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex. He is also co-director of the ESRC-funded joint SPRU-IDS Centre on Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS). His work involves researching and teaching in the field of science and technology policy. Andrew currently serves as a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Science and the Governance and Framework Programme Science in Society Advisory Committee and the UK Government's DEFRA Science Advisory Council and Sustainable Development Panel. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Research.

Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. He is also Director of the University KTP Centre, which links the University with Small to Medium Enterprises. He has been awarded higher doctorates (DScs) both by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He was presented with The Future of Health technology Award from MIT (USA), was made an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg and received The IEE Achievement Medal in 2004. In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled 'The Rise of The Robots'.

Kevin has carried out a series of pioneering experiments involving the neuro-surgical implantation of a device into the median nerves of his left arm in order to link his nervous system directly to a computer in order to assess the latest technology for use with the disabled. He has been successful with the first extra-sensory (ultrasonic) input for a human and with the first purely electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans. His research has been discussed by the US White House Presidential Council on BioEthics, The European Commission FTP and has led to him being widely referenced and featured in academic circles as well as appearing as cover stories in several magazines ' e.g. Wired (USA), The Week (India).

Soenke Zehle
Dr. Soenke Zehle teaches transcultural literary and media studies at Saarland University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Saarbruecken, Germany. He holds degrees in comparative literature, philosophy, and political science and has been involved in the development of numerous collaborative research and networking projects, including neuro.kein.org, incommunicado.info, pcglobal.org and orgnets.net. He has been involved in numerous info-political grassroots and research initiatives. Along with Geert Lovink, he is also the co-founder of the incommunicado.info project and co-organizer of incommunicado 05.

Hub Zwart
Hub Zwart (1960) became a full professor of philosophy at the Nijmegen University Faculty of Science in 2000 He was European lead of the EU Canada exchange program Coastal Values (1999 - 2003). In 2004 he became director of the Centre for Society & Genomics, funded by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative and established at his department. The current focus of his research is on genomics. Hub is co-editor of the on-line journal Genomics, Society & Policy, Associate editor of the Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics (2nd ed.) and member of the editorial boards of the journal Environmental Values and of the journal Tailoring Biotechnologies. He is also a Member of the subcommittee on ethical and societal aspects of genetic modification of COGEM (Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification).