FRC member, dr. Amy Weatherburn, has been awarded a Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) post-doc fellowship, starting from the 1st October.
On 18 September 2020, FRC Member, Carlotta Rigotti, gives a class on "AI and Social Robots", aimed at understanding how we will potentially regulate the...
FRC Member, Dr Amy Weatherburn has published an article in the inaugural open-access issue of the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict...
FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, published her paper Prostituzione e diritto: alcune riflessioni sui modelli legislativi europei (Prostitution and law:...
On 9 September 2020, FRC Member, Carlotta Rigotti, will be the moderator of the second webinar on the interaction between law and prostitution organised by...
On 1 September 2020, FRC researcher Júlia Zomignani Barboza participated as a speaker in the wrap up session of the Global Launch of the Handbook on Data...
We are happy to announce the start of our latest European Commission project MELINC, as the follow up of the previous EduLAw. MELINC aims at helping Mongolia...
The Fourth Bulletin of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) examines how the EU Member States addressed the Covid-19 pandemic in June 2020, having special...
The Third Bulletin of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) analyses how the EU Member States addressed the Covid-19 pandemic between 1 May – 31 May 2020.
On 19 June 2020, Carlotta Rigotti will present her paper Prostitution Laws across the European Union: To Go beyond the Existing Dichotomy, at the First...
The Covid-19 pandemic still affects everyday life in the EU in unprecedented ways, as mapped by the Second Bulletin of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA).
After having given gave a presentation during the 4th International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, published her paper ...
Building on the first country overview of the fundamental rights impact of the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, FRC members, Dr. Amy Weatherburn, Prof. Paul De...
Government measures to combat COVID-19 have profound implications for everybody’s fundamental rights, including the right to life and to health, as mapped by...
Dr Amy Weatherburn’s doctoral thesis on conceptualizing labour exploitation in human trafficking law has been featured in the most recent edition of the...
FRC member, Sergi Vazquez Maymir, and LSTS co-director, Gloria Gonzáles Fuster, published a paper on the "Cross-Border Access to E-Evidence on CEPS website.
On 24 January 2020, Dr Amy Weatherburn will present her doctoral research findings at a conference that considers the responses to modern slavery in the...
On 13 December 2019, FRC researcher Júlia Zomignani Barboza presented at the 2019 BENELUX conference on Artificial intelligence organised by the European Law...
Following a year-long investigation, a series of raids took place on 23 September throughout Catalonia in the context of ‘Operation Judas’ that resulted in...
On 5th November 2019, FRC member, Sergi Vazquez Maymir, together with the d.pia.lab, published a 2nd policy brief on methods for impact assessment, entitled...
On 8 November, Amy Weatherburn attended the author workshop for the forthcoming Edited Volume on Migration & Diversity as part of VUB POINcaré Initiative...
During her stay at the Queen Mary University of London, FRC Researcher, Sibel Top, is helping to organise the book launch "Building a New Catalonia: Self...
On 19 September 2019, FRC researcher Júlia Zomignani Barboza participated as a panellist in the event Human Rights in Danger – Tensions and Security in Asia,...
On 6 september 2019, FRC Member, Sibel Top, together with defence lawyer Christophe Marchand, will present an analysis of the main trends in the evolution...
From 1 September, FRC Member Amy Weatherburn has begun working part-time at INTERVICT in Tilburg Law School as Co-Coordinator of the Master in Victimology...
FRC affiliated member, Dr Jozefien Van Caeneghem has published a book entitled "Legal Aspects of Ethnic Data Collection and Positive Action. The Roma...
On 6 september 2019, FRC Member Sibel Top, together with defence lawyer Christophe Marchand, will present an analysis of the main trends in the evolution of...
On 24-25 June, FRC Member Sibel Top participated to an advanced seminar on extradition gathering lawyers and prosecutors from all around the world sharing...
FRC Member, Amy Weatherburn has co-authored with Dr Yvonne Mellon (University of Liverpool) an article in the New Journal of European Criminal Law entitled...
The Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) Research Group, part of the Department of Metajuridica of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, is offering 3...
Amy Weatherburn, FRC Member will present at a two day conference hosted by Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Ministry of Interior of Latvia...
On 24-25 January 2019, FRC Member, Sibel Top will be presenting her doctoral research on political crimes at the Annual ECLAN PhD Seminar "25 Years after...
FRC Member, Amy Weatherburn has co-authored a new article entitled "Securing the Prohibition of Labour Exploitation in Law and Practice: Slavery, Servitude,...
On 6th May 2019, FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, presented her ongoing research on sex robots and their legal implications at the Stadscchouwburg Brugge during...
The latest book by FRC Member, Professor Paul Quinn, entitled "Stigma, State Expressions and the Law" starts with a deep insight into what constitutes state...
FRC Researcher, Amy Weatherburn has published a book review of Vladislava Stoyanova's monograph Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits...
table “The European Investigation Order: Challenges to Fundamental Rights and Sovereignty in the Digital Age” that took place in Brussels on 15 January 2018.
On 6 February 2018 Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor at the European Commission and FRC Affiliated Member, has been appointed as a Fellow of the University.
On 20 March 2018, FRC Member, Sergi Vazquez Maymir, chaired the panel on “ABC gates: an interoperable solution in border control management” with speakers...
FRC has published a new volume Convergences and Divergences Between International Human Rights, International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law ...
FRC member, Amy Weatherburn and Dariusz Kloza (LSTS, VUB) have published a blog on EJIL: Talk!.Irregular migration after the Aquarius incident: moving beyond...
On 3 July, Sibel Top gave a class on "Justice and Home Affairs & Brexit" at the Summer School of the Institute of European Studies on European policy...
As the prospect of indictments issued by the Special Prosecutor’s Office looms large, the time is ripe to begin scrutinizing the legal framework under which...
From 24-25 May 2018, FRC Member, Sibel Top will be attending and presenting at the European Conference on Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ...
On 7 May, FRC Member Amy Weatherburn, presented her paper on "The increased vulnerability of migrants to labour exploitation in Europe: using positive...
FRC Member, Amy Weatherburn has been invited to chair the upcoming symposium entitled ‘8th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and Migrant...
A new FRA report on the fundamental rights implications of the collection, storage and use of biometric data in EU IT systems in the area of asylum and...
FRC researcher Sibel Top will be a visiting researcher alongside Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas at the Law Faculty of Queen Mary University of London from January...
VUB Research Group on Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) of the Faculty of Law and Criminology has been selected as the national contractor for...
The DESIrE Consortium is happy to invite you to its consensus building workshop in Uppsala on 26 October 2018, where DESIrE project partners will identify...
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Professor Paul de Hert has been invited by the Association for the...
The last LIVE_FOR event on the “European Investigation Order (EIO) and digital forensic analysis” will take place on December 18, 2018 in the city of...
FRC affiliated member, Dr Julia Muraszkiewicz has published a book entitled "Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking From Liability: The European Approach" ...
On 28 September 2018, FRC member, Amy Weatherburn, will present her doctoral research at the final conference of the Rights at Work project entitled Tackling...
FRC Member Amy Weatherburn has co-authored, with Dr Alexander Toft, Coventry University, a book chapter entitled 'Managing the Risks of Being a Victim of...
On 10 March 2017, FRC Researcher, Mathias Holvoet will be presenting at the University of Westminster conference on "Righting Wrongs: Enforcing human rights,...
On 14 November, FRC, in collaboration with the University of Bialystok Centre for Direct Democracy Studies, will be hosting a policy forum on migration...
As part of the DESIrE project, an explanatory video has been developed that informs the general public about the different legal and policy approaches that...
FRC Researcher, Sibel Top has published a EJIL Talk blog post on the recent issue of an European Arrest Warrant against Carles Puigdemont, read the full...
Next week, FRC researcher Auke Willems will present on the implications of Brexit for individual rights at a workshop on Brexit and Internal Security...
Congratulations to FRC Researcher, Dr Auke Willems who has a new post as ‘Fellow in EU Law’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Next week, FRC researcher Dr Auke Willems will present a paper at the Fifteenth Biennial EUSA Conference on: ‘Improving Prison Conditions in the EU’, 4-6 May...
Amy Weatherburn has contributed a blog post to the European Database of Asylum Law on the recent european court of human rights judgment in Chowdhury v Greece.
FRC Member, Julia Muraszkiewicz will participate as a chair in the upcoming symposium entitled ‘7th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and...
The TRACE Project has come to an end, however, the results of the project and the recommendations are now available in the TRACEing Human Trafficking project...
On Tuesday 19 April 2016, Paul De Hert co-director of FRC will be speaking on a panel entitled 'The anti-discrimination agenda on the elderly' at the...
FRC Researcher, Amy Weatherburn, has published a new article entitled Using an Integrated Human Rights-based Approach to Address Modern Slavery: The UK...
FRC Member, Fisnick Korenica has published a new article entitled 'A View on CJEU Opinion 2/13’s Unclear Stance on and Dislike of Protocol 16 ECHR' in the...
FRC Researcher, Amy Weatherburn, has co-authored with Dr Alex Toft, an article exploring the views of experts on the situation of severe labour exploitation...
FRC Member Irene Wieczorek participated on the 25th and 26th of April as invited speaker to the Conference The Needed Balances of EU Criminal Law: Past,...
FRC Member, Julia Muraszkiewicz has published a new article entitled "The Relationship Between Human Rights Violations and Human Trafficking" in the new...
Auke Willems, FRC Researcher will present his paper on ‘Mutual trust as a term of art in EU criminal law’ at The 10th Annual International Graduate Legal...
Julia Muraskiewicz, FRC Researcher, has co-authored an article entitled ‘The role of technology in the fight against human trafficking: reflections on...
The Council of the Baltic Sea States Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings (CBSS TF-THB) in cooperation with the project partners are organising a...
FRC Researcher, Julia Muraskiewicz, has published an entry on the LSE Human Rights blog entitled "Modern slavery – but let us remember the trafficked".
Professor Paul de Hert has been invited as an expert to present at a hearing on the fundamental rights of public officials wearing religious symbols at the...
On 2 December from 20:30 - 22:00, FRC Director Professor Paul de Hert will participate in ‘the big privacy debate’ at the Ghent Festival of Equality, where a...
FRC researcher Auke Willems has co-authored a policy brief with VUB research professor Florian Trauner for the European Union Institute for Security Studies.
In collaboration with VUB-IES and ULB-IEE, FRC research has been showcased at a Joint ULB/VUB Intersectoral Dialogue on Fundamental Rights, Citizenship,...
The Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) Research Group, part of the Department of Metajuridica of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, is offering a...
The Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) Research Group, part of the Department of Metajuridica of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, is offering 3...
FRC researchers, Amy Weatherburn and Julia Muraszkiewicz, will be presenting papers at the 16th conference of the International Association for the Study of...
Auke Willems, FRC Member, has recently had an article published in the Criminal Law Forum. The article, entitled Extradition on the Two Sides of the Atlantic...
FRC Researcher Auke Willems will present his paper ‘Balancing Security and Justice in EU Criminal Justice Cooperation’ at the Católica 2016 Graduate Legal...
FRC Members, Amy Weatherburn and Julia Muraszkiewicz have published an article in the National Journal of Immigration and Asylum entitled The Impact of the...
FRC researchers, together with 6 other partner countries are conducting fieldwork research into the fundamental rights implications of biometric data in...
