New publication: FRC members discuss our work as FRANET national contractor
Dr. Amy Weatherburn, Júlia Zomignani Barboza and Prof.
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FRC Director Stefaan Smis appointed ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Professor Stefaan Smis has been appointed ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights. His first case to deal with was Mortier v Belgium. Now he is handling the cases RTBF v Belgium and Test-Achats v Belgium.
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New publication: Towards an EU criminal law on violence against women: The ambitions and limitations of the Commission’s proposal to criminalise image-based sexual abuse
Carlotta Rigotti (FRC member) and prof.
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PhD defence: The political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe
FRC member, Sibel Top, will publicly discuss her PhD thesis on Monday 21 November 2022 at 10 AM in the VUB Promotion Room D2.01.
Title: The political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe: An analysis of its evolution and application with a sp...
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FRC member presents her book "The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights
On 15 November 2022, FRC member, Aleydis Nissen, will present her forthcoming book "The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights" at the Brussels School of Governance. Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of...
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New publication: Between a rock and a hard place: A human rights assessment of the fate of excluded asylum-seekers and criminal refugees in Australia
FRC member, Júlia Zomignani Barboza, has just published a new article on the Refugee Survey Quaterly, based on her PhD research. The article, which is available at the following link, is entitled: "Between a rock and a hard place: A human rights assessment of the fate of exclude...
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FRC member presents her PhD research at Durham Law School
On 27 June 2020, FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti will present her PhD research "Criminal law at the intersection between technology and sexuality: A case study on the possible criminalisation of sex robotics" during the monthly seminar Gender and Law at Durham, at Durham Law School. &n...
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New publication: Trustworthy migrant-centric apps and other ICT tools: Data protection as the last line of defence
FRC members Bianca-Ioana Marcu, Júlia Zomignani Barboza and Prof.
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PhD researcher position on child sexual abuse and human trafficking
FRC is seeking to fill one full-time PhD researcher position as part of FRC’s team working in the HEROES project – Novel strategies to fight child sexual exploitation and human trafficking in crimes and protect their victims. You will be based at the Fundamental Rights Center...
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New publication: A long way to end rape in the European Union
FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, has just published her article 'A long way to end rape in the European Union: Assessing the commission’s proposal to harmonise rape law, through a feminist lens' on the New Journal of European Criminal Law. Abstract: On 8 March 2022, th...
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FRC member presents at the EU Pop Conference
On 12 May 2022, FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, will present part of her ongoing PhD reserach during the EU Pop Conference organised by the University of Central Lancashire. The presentation is entitled 'Penal populism: Some considerations arising from...
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FRC research on labour exploitation featured in De Standaard
FRC affiliated member, Amy Weatherburn, has contributed to a VUB research project funded by Fairwork Belgium and Orbit vzw and designed to develop a long-term outlook on labour migration needs in Belgium. Some of the research findings have just been p...
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