FRC Member Presents at European Conference on Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
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 'EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS IMPACT ON NATIONAL LEGAL ORDERS.' held in Warsaw, Poland.
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FRC Member Presents at International Conference "EU at the Crossroads of Migration"
On 7 May, FRC Member Amy Weatherburn, presented her paper on "The increased vulnerability of migrants to labour exploitation in Europe: using positive obligations to maintain a firewall between migration law and criminal law".
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FRC Member to Chair 8th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
FRC Member, Amy Weatherburn has been invited to chair the upcoming symposium entitled ‘8th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling’ taking place in Brussels on the 17 April 2018. The symposium will reflect upon the recent European Commiss...
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New FRA Report: Under Watchful Eyes – Biometrics, EU IT-Systems and Fundamental Rights
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 migration has now been published. Under watchful eyes – biometrics, EU IT-systems and fundamental rights identifies a number of fundamenta...
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FRC Member Chairs Panel on ABC Gates and Border Management
On 20 March 2018, FRC Member, Sergi Vazquez Maymir, chaired the panel on “ABC gates: an interoperable solution in border control management” with speakers discussing legal, technical and ethical aspects of ABC -gates and in particular addressing the issues concerning its interoperability with Inform...
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FRC Researcher, Sibel Top, Accepted as Visiting Researcher at Queen Mary University London
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 2019 till December 2019. During her time there, she will be working under the supervision of Prof.
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DESIRE Newsletter (Issue 4) Now Available
All the recent updates of the first year of the DESIRE project, coordinated by FRC, can be found in the 4th issue of the Newsletter.
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New Book Review: Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and State’s Positive Obligations in European Law (Vladislava Stoyanova)
FRC Researcher, Amy Weatherburn has published a book review of Vladislava Stoyanova's monograph Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and State’s Positive Obligations in European Law on Rutgers Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books.
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LIVE_FOR Roundtable - Summary and Video Now Available
table “The European Investigation Order: Challenges to Fundamental Rights and Sovereignty in the Digital Age” that took place in Brussels on 15 January 2018. The round table addressed cross border access to electronic evidence and judicial cooperation examining its fundamental e...
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FRC Affiliated Member, Paul Nemitz is Appointed VUB Fellow
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. The award ceremony will be held on June 21, 2018.
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New Publication: Integrating Disability and Elder Rights into the ECHR: rewriting McDonald v the United Kingdom
FRC Researcher, Dr Marijke De Pauw and FRC Co-Director, Prof. Paul De Hert have contributed a chapter to E. Brems (ed.), Fragmentation and Integration in Human Rights Law: Users' Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2018 forthcoming).
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