dr. Irene Kamara LLM MSc

Bio

Irene works as Assistant Professor Cybercrime Law and Human Rights at TILT. She is also Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School and affiliated researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Irene obtained a joint doctorate degree from Tilburg University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She has conducted research for the European Commission, the Dutch National Cyber Security Agency, the European Cybersecurity Agency and others. She is invited as external expert evaluator of EU funded proposals. Irene is a member of the ENISA Experts List for assisting in the implementation of its Annual Work Programme and of the CEN-CENELEC/BTWG 3 'STAIR' on STAndardization, Innovation and Research. Irene was the winner of the 2021 Standards+Innovation Individual Researcher award of the European Standardisation Organisations. She is qualified attorney-at-law and was practicising for several years before joining academia. Since August 2022, Irene is Research Coordinator at TILT.

Teaching

• Cybercrime (620068-M-6) course coordinator and lecturer at LL.M. Law & Technology.
• Global Law bachelor: Law, Technology and Society course lecturer (620296-B-6).
• Guest lectures on data protection & privacy, regulation theory, soft law, standardisation, certification, international data flows.
• JADS Professional doctorate program on data science: lecturer on cybersecurity and data protection law.
• Master Thesis supervision.

Courses

• GLB: Law, Technology and Society
• Cybercrime

Collaboration

• Affiliated Researcher - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group on Law, Science, Technology, Society)
• Attorney at law (Athens Bar Association - Greece)
• Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford University
• Member of the ENISA Experts List for assisting in the implementation of the Annual ENISA Work Programme, ENISA M-CEI-21-T41
• Editorial Board - Journal of Standardisation (open access, hosted by TU Delft)
• Member of CEN-CENELEC Working Group of the Technical Boards 'STAIR' (STAndards, Innovation and Research)
• Member of Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) Network (Harvard Law School)
• Member of Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR)
• Member of European Academy for Standardisation EURAS
• Annual Privacy Forum (APF) Program Committee Member
• IPEN initiative - Internet Privacy Engineering Network (EDPS)
• Privacy & Identity Lab (PI.lab) & D/PIA Lab
• Technical Committee Cybersecurity and Privacy of the Dutch Standardisation Institute NEN

Highlights

• Winner of the CEN CENELEC Standards + Innovation award, category Individual Researcher/Innovator for 2021 (nominated by NEN)
• Shortlisted for CEFCYS (top 3) for Cyber Woman Excellence award - Europe 2021
• Principal Investigator - Horizon Europe ENCRYPT project on  Scalable And Practical Privacy-Preserving Framework.
• Principal investigator - National Cyber Security Centre (NL) -study on Network and Information Security Directive (2022) and cybersecurity certification (2020)
• Principal investigator - COM DG JUST study on GDPR certification 2019
• Honourable mention at the NENnovation competition 2019
• Presentation at the IGLP Harvard Law School conference 2018
• Most read paper for 2018 (2nd place) European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL)
• Contributed to the development of a CEN Workshop Agreement (European standardisation deliverable)  https://www.cencenelec.eu/media/CEN-CENELEC/CWAs/RI/cwa17147_2017.pdf
• Best paper award - ITU-Kaleidoscope Conference 2015
• Young Author Recognition certificate -  ITU-Kaleidoscope Conference 2015

Recent publications

1. Article 38 - Derogations for specific situations

   Kamara, I. (Accepted/In press). Article 38: Derogations for specific situations. In E. Kosta, & F. Boehm (Eds.), The law enforcement directive : A commentary Oxford University Press.

2. Article 42 commentary

   Kamara, I. (Accepted/In press). Article 42 commentary. In I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann, V. Papakonstantinou, G. Hornung, & P. de Hert (Eds.), European general data protection regulation : A commentary (1 ed., Vol. 1). (Kooperationswerke Beck - Hart - Nomos). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

3. Article 43 commentary

   Kamara, I. (Accepted/In press). Article 43 commentary. In I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann, V. Papakonstantinou, G. Hornung, & P. de Hert (Eds.), European general data protection regulation: A commentary (1 ed., Vol. 1). [43] (Kooperationswerke Beck - Hart - Nomos). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

4. Essential equivalence as a benchmark for international data transfers…

   Drechsler, L., & Kamara, I. (2022). Essential equivalence as a benchmark for international data transfers after Schrems II. In E. Kosta , R. Leenes, & I. Kamara (Eds.), Research handbook on EU data protection (pp. 314-352). (Research Handbooks in European Law series). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..

5. A framework to determine how and whether to implement automatically p…

   Guitton, C., Tamo-Larrieux, A., Mayer, S., Fosch Villaronga, E., Kamara, I., Van Landuyt, D., Langheinrich, M., Pałka, P., & Zihlmann, Z. (2022). A framework to determine how and whether to implement automatically processable regulation. (pp. 1-13). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4226090