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Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law

Fundamental Rights Research Centre

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The Fundamental Rights Research Centre (FRC) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel coordinates and centralizes the many human-rights linked research projects within the university. Both theory of human rights, national human rights law (constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, …) and international human rights law are brought together with the objective of engendering and stimulating integrated human rights research projects. 

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News

FRA presumption
Tuesday 6 April

FRA Report: Presumption of Innocence and Related Rights

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has just published a comparative report on presumption of innocence and related rights across the EU Member States, as well as the country report for Belgium ...

CRigotti2
Wednesday 31 March

New Publication: When the law meets feminisms: The Shortcomings of contemporary prostitution policies across the European Union

FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti , has published a new article 'When the law meets feminisms: The shortcomings of contemporary prostitution policies across the European Union' on Women's Studies...

EXIT
Monday 29 March

EXIT Europe Final Conference

The online EXIT Europe final conference will take place on 29 March 2020, 10-16.30. The event will be hosted on Cisco Webex by the EXIT Europe project coordinator, namely the Austrian Ministry of...

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Events

Osella
Tuesday 27 April from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology, and Law: Constitutional Law and Discipline: Fundamental Rights as a Technology of Power

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Stefano Osella (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) and is entitled: Constitutional Law and Discipline: Fundamental Rights as...

GTL
Tuesday 23 March from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology, and Law: Reflections on Gender-Biased AI

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Tuba Bircan (VUB) and is entitled: Reflections on Gender-Biased AI Session description: Reflections on Gender-biased AI All spheres of...

Olga
Tuesday 9 February from 12:30 to 14:00

Gender, Technology and Law: Online Harms and Online Violence against Women – Towards a (Law) Reform?

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Olga Jurasz (the Open University Law School) and is entitled: Online Harms and Online Violence against Women – Towards a (Law) Reform?...

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