FRC Researcher is One of the Finalists of the VUB PhD Cup
On April 24, FRC researcher Júlia Zomignani Barboza, presented her PhD topic in three minutes during the pre-selections of the VUB’s PhD Cup.
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FRC Welcomes New Visiting Scientist
Since May 2019, FRC has welcome Elisabeth Koek as a visiting researcher. After 10 years of practical experience in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in human rights, humanitarian aid and protection, Elisabeth has started her PhD at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.
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New Monograph: Stigma, State Expressions and the Law
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 expressions, and how they can become stigmatizing, in particular for vulnerable groups and minorities; then it follows on to loo...
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FRC contributes to VUB Homo Roboticus Tour
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 Homo Roboticus on Tour. Given the increasingly robotized society we live in, the Homo Roboticus project, run by VUB,
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New Blogpost: Sex Robots - a Human Rights Discourse
What are the human rights implications in the growing market for sex robots?
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New Project LIVE_FOR: Criminal Justice Access to Digital Evidences in the Cloud - LIVE_FOR
We are happy to announce the start of our latest European Commission project LIVE_FOR. The two-year project sets out to investigate the status of implementation of Directive 2014/14/EU within the respective member states.
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New Publication: Child Trafficking Victims and Legal Guardians: Exploring the Fulfilment of the EU Trafficking Directive in the Context of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 – Best Practice or not Fit for Purpose?
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 Child trafficking victims and legal guardians: Exploring the fulfilment of the EU trafficking directive in the context of the UK...
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PhD Position in EU Criminal Law: Exchange of Digital Evidence
The Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) Research Group, part of the Department of Metajuridica of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, is offering 3 years PhD funding to a doctoral student to examine the challenges presented by the exchange of digital evidence.
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FRC Member Presents at Conference on "Human Trafficking – a Crime with Too Few Convictions and Too Many Victims
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 Human trafficking – a crime with too few convictions and too many victims.
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FRC attends FRANET kick of meeting in Vienna
On 14 February 2019, FRC will join partners in FRA’s multidisciplinary research network, FRANET, in Vienna on 14 February.
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FRC Member presents at ECLAN PhD Seminar : "25 Years after Maastricht: Achievements, Failures and Challenges of the EU Criminal Justice Area"
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 Maastricht: Achievements, Failures and Challenges of the EU Criminal Justice Area".
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New Publication: The European Convention on Human Rights as an Instrument of Tort Law (Dr Stefan Somers)
FRC Member, Dr Stefan Somers, has published a book entitled The European Convention on Human Rights as an Instrument of Tort Law (Intersentia, 2019).
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