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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

Bianca
Monday 3 May

New Blogpost on Eurodac: Biometrics, Facial Recognition and the Fundamental Rights of Minors

FRC member, Bianca-Ioana Marcu, has just published a new blogpost "Eurodac: Biometrics, Facial Recognition and the Fundamental Rights of Minors" in the European Law Blog. The blog post features an...

Top
Wednesday 28 April

New Publication on Prosecuting Political Dissent

FRC member, Sibel Top , has published a new article "Prosecuting political dissent: Discussing the relevance of the political offence exception in EU extradition law in light of the Catalan...

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 ...

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Events

Eduard
Tuesday 15 June from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology, and Law: The Consequences of Missing Diversity Considerations in the Development of Algorithms

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Eduard Fosch Villaronga (Leiden University) and is entitled: The consequences of missing diversity considerations in the development of...

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...

nora
Tuesday 25 May from 15:00 to 16:30

Gender, Technology, and the Law: 'Female Servitude by Design and Default? Gendering AI Virtual Personal Assistants, Law, and Ethics’

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Rachel Adams (IALS) and Dr. Nóra Ni Loideain (IALS) and is entitled: Female Servitude by Design and Default? Gendering AI Virtual...

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