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 cybersecurity, 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.
• PhD co-supervisor of Ana Maria Hriscu (with prof. E. Kosta) and Pratham Ajmera (with prof. P. Delimatsis).
• 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 - Internet Privacy Engineering Network (EDPS)
• Technical Committee Cybersecurity and Privacy of the Dutch Standardisation Institute NEN
• Member of the European Data Protection Board experts pool

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. Standardising data protection

   Kamara, I. (2023). Standardising data protection. (1 ed.) Oxford University Press.

2. Data retention in Europe and beyond - Law and policy in the aftermath…

   Kosta, E., & Kamara, I. (Eds.) (2023). Data retention in Europe and beyond: Law and policy in the aftermath of an invalidated directive. Oxford University Press.

3. The right to effective remedy in international data transfers of elec…

   Kosta, E., & Kamara, I. (Accepted/In press). The right to effective remedy in international data transfers of electronic evidence: Past lessons and future outlook. Review of European Administrative Law.

4. Legal, ethics, and user requirements, technical specifications and EN…

   Lazarou, G., Diamantopoulos, S., Lloyd, J., Kamara, I., Dalla Corte, L., Kosta, E., Siachos, G., Kaltakis, K., Papachristopoulou, K., D'Antonio, S., Mazzeo, G., Romano, L., Avgerinos, N., Papoutsis, A., Vrochidis, S., Stratikopoulos, A., Papadakis, O., Roccetti, P., Giampaolo, F., ... Cantoni, V. (2023). Legal, ethics, and user requirements, technical specifications and ENCRYPT architecture: Interim report. European Commission.

5. 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..