Events Archive

Next Monday, April 24, at 10am, FRC member Carlotta Rigotti will publicly defend her PhD titled "Rethinking gender and sexuality in the robotic era: A proposal for the legitimate regulation of sex robotics."

On 19 October 2023, FRC member Nadine El-Dekmak will present her forthcoming paper “Trauma bonding in human trafficking and child sexual abuse online” during the penal “Addressing Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking in Human

On 8 December 2022, FRC will host the year 1 review meeting of the HEROES project. During the review meeting, the project officer from the European Commission as well as two external reviewers will evaluate the work done by all partners

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?

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

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Rachel Adams (IALS) and Dr.

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr.

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr.

The first edition of the FRC PhD Day will take place on 10th June 2021, 10 a.m - 5 p.m. (Brussels time). To respect the lockdown measures against the Covid-19 pandemic, it will be held remotely, via MicrosoftTeams.

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Argyro (Iro) Chatzinikolaou (Ghent University) and is entitled: Sexting amongst children: should it fall within the scope of criminal legisl

On 6 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the EU delivered its much anticipated Opinion on the accession of the EU to the Istanbul Convention. The Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention aims at preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence.

Being remotely held on the week of Human Right’s Day, the FRC Annual Conference will take place on Tuesday, 7th December 2021, 13.30 - 19 (Brussels time).

The 4th session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, under the title: “Sex Robots through Feminist Lenses”, will take place on 15 January 2020 at 10:00-12:00 and will be animated by 

The 5th session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, under the title: “Gendered law making: the case of human trafficking”, will take place on 13th May 2020 at 10:00-11:30 and will be animated by d

The 5th session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, under the title: “Immigration, Iris-Scanning, and iBorderCTRL: The Human Rights Impacts of Migration Control Technologies”, will take place on 27.10.2020 at 12:00-1

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by prof.

The dark cloud of the corona crisis has been upon us for most of 2020. While this is a global pandemic, posing a threat to us all, it does not affect us all equally: the most vulnerable among us are hit more severely.

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by prof.

1st session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC.

The 2nd session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, under the title: “Gender, Technology & Law: A topology of terms”, will take place on 23 October 2019 at 10:00-12:00.

Moriguchi Kotomi will publicly defend her doctoral thesis on the implementation of an international and European anti-corruption law in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro.

Promoter:

• Prof. dr. P. De Hert;
• Prof. dr. J. Janssens.

Amy Weatherburn will publicly defend her doctoral thesis: Clarifying the Scope of Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law: Towards a Legal

The 3rd session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, under the title: “All Watched Over By Aunties Of Loving Grace: Safety as Surveillance in India”, will take place on 11 December 2019 at 10:00-12:00.

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The intensive use of electronic communications such as webmail, messaging services apps or social media has led criminal investigations to increasingly rely on electronic evidence (e-evidence).

From 5 February to 30 March 2018, FRC is co-organisng with PAG-ASA – Center for Victims of Human Trafficking an exhibition entitled Photo-Voice: A glimpse on victims’ experiences of human trafficking.

FRC Researcher, Mathias Holvoet will publicly defend his doctoral thesis on a policy to commit atrocity. understanding the ‘policy element’ for the purpose of defining crimes against humanity.

As part of the LIVE_FOR project, the first LIVE_FOR educational workshop: “European Investigation Order and Digital Forensics” will take place in March

The newly established VUB platform on migration and diversity (BIRMS) will host a book discussion with Renee Luthra (University of Essex)

(This is a brown bag lunch seminar, please bring your lunch)

The intensive use of electronic devices, the quantity and quality of the data by them generated have led Law enforcement and judicial authorities to increasingly rely on the analysis of electronic stored information to carry most of their criminal investigations.

On 13 December 2018, the DESIRE project will be hosting it's final one day conference where we will:

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 Barcelona.

Key topics of this event are:

On Tuesday 17 January 2017, FRC hosted the kick off meeting for a new 2 year EU funded project entitled DESIrE: DEmand for Sexual Exploitation in Europe. 

On 26 January 2017, FRC is organizing a panel on ethnic data collection and positive action for Roma at the 2017 Edition of CPDP (Computers Privacy and Data Protection).

The panel will consist of four speakers:

FRC Researcher, Auke Willems will publicly defend his doctoral thesis on Mutual Trust as a core priniciple of EU Criminal Law: Conceptualising the principle with a view to facilitate mutual recognition of criminal matters.

On 24 April 2017, VUB will be hosting a Joint Meeting as part of the LIVE_FOR Project. Participants will be invited to discuss: 

Brexit and Criminal Justice in Scotland

Dr. Leandro MancanoUniversity of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Organised by Dr. Auke Willems (FRC)Introduced by Prof. Dr. Anne Weyembergh (ULB)

FRC Researcher, Julia Muraszkiewicz will publicly defend her doctoral thesis on The Legal Framework on Non-Liability for victims of human trafficking: should, and can, the European Union ask more of Member States?

FRC Researcher, Marijke De Pauw will publicly defend her doctoral thesis on International Human Rights Law: Between Fragmentation and Coordination A Case Study on the Emerging Rights of Older Persons.

Jury

Inverted Liberty: Privacy, Transparency and Democratic Governance

Marc Rotenberg, President of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington

Organised by Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism Research Group

FRC Researcher, Jozefien Van Caeneghem will publicly defend her doctoral thesis on the use of ethnic data collection and positive action to combat discrimination and promote equality and social inclusion of the Roma minority in Europe.

As we conclude our work on the TRACE project, it is our pleasure to invite you to the TRACE Final Conference: Understanding the business of human trafficking. Please note that we have changed the conference date to 28th April 2016.

Derek Inman and Marijke de Pauw, FRC Researchers organised a seminar that focuses upon the possible options for PhD researchers who specialise in human rights.

On 15 November 2016, FRC Researcher Irene Wieczorek, will be publicly defending her PhD thesis. The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law: what role for normative and instrumental justifications?