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Job opening: The Ronald Coase Visiting Professorship in Law and Economics 2020-21
12th May 2020The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at Tilburg University currently accepts applications for the Ronald Coase Visiting Professorship in Law and Economics for the academic year 2020-21. We invite applications from experienced scholars of academic distinction, who will conduct research of high quality while in residence at TILEC.
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Citizen sensing can be a valuable contribution to environmental risk governance
30th April 2020‘Citizen sensing’, grassroots-driven monitoring initiatives based on sensor technology, is a phenomenon that authorities increasingly encounter when dealing with an environmental risk. Although this form of citizen science is often driven by a conflict between citizens and authorities, both parties can actually benefit. That is one of the main findings of Anna Berti Suman’s PhD research, which she will defend in a livestream on May 8, 2020, at Tilburg University.
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Postdoctoral Researcher Philosophy/STS
21st April 2020The department of Law, Technology, Markets, and Society (LTMS, home of TILT and TILEC) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher, with a background in philosophy and/or ethics of technology/STS, who will actively contribute to the NWO-MVI project ‘The Role and Responsibilities of Public Actors in Distributed Networks.
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Dutch experiment with facial recognition: privacy risks require legislative choices
21st April 2020A smart doorbell with facial recognition; registering with your face rather than with an entry ticket; and now perhaps using facial recognition to identify individuals who have been into contact with Covid-19 patients? Facial recognition has serious implications for our privacy. The legislator can limit those risks, but will need to make legislative choices for that purpose.
