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Visiting professors - 25th Anniversary TILT 2019

January – Geoffrey Manne
Geoffrey A. Manne is an expert in the economic analysis of law, focusing particularly on antitrust and the regulation of technology more broadly. After teaching law & economics (and other courses) at Lewis & Clark Law School for several years, he decamped to work in Microsoft’s legal & corporate affairs department. In 2009 he founded the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a distinguished fellow at Northwestern Law School’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, & Economic Growth and a member of the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. You can find the abstract here.

February – Maria Helen Murphy
Maria Helen Murphy joined the faculty at Maynooth University in 2014. Dr Murphy researches in the areas of privacy law, surveillance, information technology law, and human rights. Dr Murphy has published in a variety of national and international journals and co-authored the book, Information and Communications Technology Law in Ireland in 2017. Dr Murphy lectures Information Privacy Law, and Information Technology Law at the postgraduate level, and lectures Media Law and Civil Liberties at the undergraduate level. You can find the abstract here.

March – Teresa Scassa
Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is the author or co-author of several books, including Canadian Trademark Law (2d edition, LexisNexis 2015), and Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, (CCH Canadian Ltd. 2012) (winner of the 2013 Walter Owen Book Prize). You can find the abstract here.

April – Sapna Kumar
Sapna Kumar is a Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and is a co-director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of patent law, administrative law, and international intellectual property. Professor Kumar is a 2018-2019 recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant, allowing her to spend Spring 2019 researching at the University of Strasbourg's Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. You can find the abstract here.

May – William G. Staples
William G. Staples is Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Founding Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. Staples is well-known internationally for his work in the areas of social control and surveillance. He is the author of five books and dozens of articles and chapters. His most recent work is the second edition of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life, considered a foundational work in the interdisciplinary field of Surveillance Studies. Staples is past Co-Editor of Sociological Inquiry, The Sociological Quarterly, and is currently Associate Editor of Surveillance & Society, the international journal of the Surveillance Studies Network. You can find the abstract here.

June – Carlo Botrugno
Carlo Botrugno graduated in Legal Sciences (2005) and in Social Work (2012) at the University of Bologna; he holds a Master in Law (2008), and a PhD in Law and New Technologies (2016) from University of Bologna. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Legal Sciences of Florence University. He is founder and co-coordinator of the Research Unit on Everyday Bioethics and Ethics of Science (RUEBES), which is part of the L’Altro Diritto Interuniversity Research Centre. He has been postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Health Care Ethics of Slovak Medical University (SZU); and visiting PhD student at: Centre for Social Studies (CES) of Coimbra University; Porto Alegre Clinicas Hospital (HCPA); Porto Alegre Uniritter dos Reis University. His main research interests are related to: biolaw, bioethics and medical ethics; ITs and technological innovation in healthcare; public policy and health law; human rights, discrimination and citizenship; migration, vulnerability and social determinants of health. You can find the abstract here.

July – No Program

August – No Program

September – Joanna Bryson, John Danaher and Sven Nyholm
The first part of September, Joanna Bryson was our visiting professor, she gave the Keynote on the 10th of September 2019. Joanna J. Bryson is a transdisciplinary researcher on the structure and dynamics of human- and animal-like intelligence. Her research covering topics from artificial intelligence, through autonomy and robot ethics, and on to human cooperation has appeared in venues ranging from a reddit to Science. She holds degrees in Psychology from Chicago and Edinburgh, and Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh and MIT. She has additional professional research experience from Princeton, Oxford, Harvard, and LEGO, and technical experience in Chicago's financial industry, and international management consultancy. Bryson is presently a Reader (associate professor) at the University of Bath. You can find the abstract here.

For the second part of September, John Danaher and Sven Nyholm will give the Public Lecture on the 24th of September 2019. More information about the Public Lecture can be found here.

John Danaher is a lecturer in the Law School at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research deals with the legal, social and ethical implications of emerging technologies, with a particular focus on robotics and artificial intelligence. He has published many articles on human enhancement, brain-based lie detection, the philosophy of punishment, technological unemployment, artificial intelligence and social robots. He is the co-editor (with Neil McArthur) of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017), and the author of Automation and Utopia (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2019).

Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Nyholm’s research covers various different aspects of ethics: both general ethical theory and also more specific ethical issues, especially in relation to technology and modern life. His first book was about Kantian ethics. His second book, which will appear in early 2020, is about the ethics of human-robot interaction.

October – Francesco Sindico and Jonathan Verschuuren
The visiting professor of October will be Francesco Sindico. He will give the Public Lecture on the 22nd of October. Francesco Sindico is the Co-Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, and the Programme Director of the Strathclyde LLM in Climate and Energy Law. Over fifteen years of research, Francesco’s work has focused on climate change law and its relationship with security, sustainable development and trade. Francesco is co-ordinating a global project on climate change litigation and has extensive experience advising international organisations and governments on several areas of International Law, including climate change law and water law. He has also led the organisation of the 2018 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium on “The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance: Innovation, Risk and Resilience”. More information about the Public Lecture can be found here.

The keynote lecture on 29 October will be given by Jonathan Verschuuren. Verschuuren's research mainly focuses on the role of international and EU environmental law in legal practice. Current research focuses on climate change, particularly adaptation. As of 2015, Verschuuren primarily researches the impact of climate change on agriculture and vice versa, particularly with a view to developing a regulatory framework for climate smart agriculture. In 2015, he was awarded a two year Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship on this topic. You can find the abstract here.

November – Robert Rosenberger
Robert Rosenberger is an associate professor of philosophy in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a key developer of “postphenomenology,” a philosophical perspective that provides deep descriptions of users’ experiences with technology. His work addresses topics such as Mars satellite imaging, computer-simulated educational frog dissection, and smartphone driver distraction. His recent book, Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minnesota, 2017), explores how the things of our world are sometimes designed to push the homeless population out of shared public spaces. His co-edited books include Postphenomenological Investigations (Lexington, 2015) and the forthcoming Postphenomenology and Imaging. You can find the abstract here.

December – Dan Svantesson
Professor Dan Svantesson is a Co-Director of the Centre for Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law and a Researcher at the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University. He specialises in international aspects of the IT society, a field within which he has published a range of books and articles, and given presentations in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe. You can find the abstract here.

TILT Fellowships 2017/2018

In July and August 2018 we had a visiting fellow at TILT. Her name is Sharon Haleva-Amir. More information can be found below.

From 11-21 December 2017 we had a visiting professor at TILT. His name is Jorge L. Contreras. He was a visiting professor at TILEC and TILT. Please find below more information about Jorge L. Contreras.

In September and October 2017 we had a visiting professor at TILT. Her name is Janet Chan. More information can be found below.

Sharon Haleva-Amir

Sharon is a lecturer and a faculty member in the School of Communication at Bar Ilan University where she has been teaching courses on themes that refer to the connections between Law, Technology and Society (New Media: Introduction to Technology & Society; Media Law; Open Government; (e-Gov); The Political Web seminar; Digital Campaigns; Changing Concepts in the Digital Era; Legal and Social Sciences' Databases; Introduction to Academic Literacy).

She is holding a PhD degree in Law from Haifa University's Law School (Fellow in HCLT); an MA in Information Science (majoring in Internet Studies) and an LLB from Tel Aviv University.

Her academic focus lies between new technologies and the public sphere in three different dimensions: (1) the political - communicative dimension; (2) the public democratic dimension and (3) the legal dimension and within the interdisciplinary field of e-Politics, which studies the novelties of personal political use of new technologies.

Sharon's project on TILT had addressed the fundamental issues of politicians’ blocking habits on Facebook through the case study of Israeli Parliament Members. An issue that corresponds with the key area of the evolving digital society as it refers both to power structures as well as to new forms of governance.

Jorge L. Contreras

Jorge L. Contreras is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Ontario, Canada. He has previously served on the law faculties of American University and Washington University in St. Louis. Before entering academia, Professor Contreras was a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he practiced transactional and IP law in Boston, London and Washington DC. His research focuses, among other things, on the development of technical standards and the use, dissemination and ownership of data generated by scientific research. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and chapters and is the editor of four books relating to technology law and technical standards, including the Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law (2017). He has been quoted in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Washington Post, Korea Times, has been a guest on NPR, BBC and various televised broadcasts, and has been cited by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, European Commission and courts in the U.S. and Europe. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Division of the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law, and as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils and the IPR Policy Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). He has previously served as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on IP Management in Standard-Setting Processes. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA).

Janet Chan

Janet Chan is currently Professor at UNSW Law, Key Researcher at the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre (D2D CRC) and a member of the Law, Technology and Innovation Research Network. She is a multidisciplinary scholar with research interests in criminal justice policy and practice, sociology of organization and occupation, and the social organization of creativity. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to policing research, especially her work on police culture and the use of information technology in policing.

Janet has been awarded a number of major grants for criminological and sociolegal research, ranging from policing, juvenile justice, restorative justice, work stress and wellbeing of lawyers, to projects on Big Data analytics for national security and law enforcement.

Janet has held various positions in Australia, including Research Director of the NSW Judicial Commission, Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology, Head of the School of Social Science and Policy, Professor and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW. She was President of the UNSW Academic Board from 2008 to 2011, Associate Dean (Research) of the Law School from 2011 to 2014, and Distinguished Professor of iCinema Research Centre from 2014 to 2016.

Janet was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2002 for distinction in research achievements. In 2015 she was the joint recipient of the ANZ Society of Criminology Distinguished Criminologist Award.

She has been research consultant to various organizations including: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, National Crime Authority, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, and the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service. She was part-time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission (2001-2005). She is a member of the editorial board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, a reviewer for the Australian Research Council (ARC), and was an expert member of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Research Evaluation Committee in 2010 and 2012.

Guest lecturers TILT

Academic year 2019-2020

Academic year 2018-2019

Academic year 2017-2018

Privacy Course Fall 2017

Peter van Schelven
Mark Wijnhoven
Alex van der Wolk

Privacy Course Winter 2018

Peter van Schelven
Mark Wijnhoven
Alja Poler - De Zwart

Privacy Course Spring 2018

Peter van Schelven
Mark Wijnhoven
Alex van der Wolk
Alja Poler - De Zwart

Research associates TILT

A. (Angela) Daly (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
H. (Heleen) Janssen (BZK)
E.M.T. (Eric) Lachaud (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
F. (Federica) Lucivero (King's College London, United Kingdom)
E. (Eliza) Mik (University of Sydney, Australia)
S. (Stefania) Milan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
B.C. (Bryce) Newell (University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States of America)
D. (Dmitrii) Trubnikov
E.W. (Eric) Verhelst (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
N. (Nicolo) Zingales (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

Research visitors 2015-2019

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prof. dr. Ronald Leenes

Managing director

Leonie de Jong-van Hooff

Sharon Haleva-Amir

Jorge L. Contreras

Janet Chan

Academic year 2019-2020

Academic year 2018-2019

Academic year 2017-2018

Privacy Course Fall 2017

Privacy Course Winter 2018

Privacy Course Spring 2018

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