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Researcher
Paul De Hert
- Research Expertise:
- European and International criminal law. Human rights law. Privacy law. Foundations of criminal law
- Keywords:Law (incl. notarial studies)
- Disciplines:Philosophy of law, Criminal law, Human rights law, Information law
- Users of research expertise:
- European and International criminal law. Human rights law. Privacy law. Foundations of criminal law
Affiliations
- Law, Science, Technology & Society (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2023 → Today - Fundamental rights centre (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2000 → Today - Metajuridica (Department)
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From1 Oct 2024 → 30 Sep 2025 - Metajuridica (Department)
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From1 Jan 2024 → Today - Law, Science, Technology & Society (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2024 → Today - Metajuridica (Department)
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From9 Dec 2019 → 30 Sep 2021 - Metajuridica (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → Today - Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (Research group)
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From31 Oct 2018 → 1 Sep 2023 - Metajuridica (Department)
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From1 Oct 2007 → 31 Jan 2009 - Metajuridica (Department)
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From1 Oct 2007 → 31 Jan 2009 - Metajuridica (Department)
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From1 Jan 2004 → 20 Oct 2022 - Metajuridica (Department)
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From1 Jan 2004 → 4 Apr 2020 - FORMER_Law Science Technology and Society (Research group)
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From1 Nov 2003 → 31 Dec 2022 - Criminal Law and Procedural Law (Department)
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From1 Oct 2002 → 31 Dec 2003 - Criminal Law and Procedural Law (Department)
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From1 Oct 2002 → 31 Dec 2003 - Social Law (Department)
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From1 Jan 2001 → 15 Jun 2001 - Social Law (Department)
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From1 Jan 2001 → 15 Jun 2001 - Legal Development - Comparative Law - European Law (Department)
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From1 Jan 1999 → 31 Dec 2003 - Legal Development - Comparative Law - European Law (Department)
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From1 Jan 1999 → 31 Dec 2003
Projects
1 - 10 of 87
- AI in Courts: Judicial Values in the Age of AIFrom1 Apr 2025 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie-actions (MSCA)
- Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM)From1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UniPI (IT), CREPAX TommasoFrom20 Mar 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
- FAIR: EU Charter of Fundamental rights: Awareness raising and Instruments to promote a culture of RightsFrom1 Mar 2024 → TodayFunding: EU - out of framework - indefinite
- Optimizing Legal and Ethical Use of Technologies for Cybersecurity & Health.From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in real environment, IOF - mandates
- Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - Université de Luxembourg (LU), KANAKAKIS AndreasFrom1 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
- ALUNA : Child-protection based strategies to fight against sexual abuse and exploitation crimesFrom1 Jun 2023 → 31 May 2025Funding: EU - out of framework - indefinite
- Modernising Codes of Criminal Procedure on digital investigative methods: combining the languages of criminal procedural law, data protection law and European human rights lawFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- OCH - Optimizing Legal and Ethical Use of Technologies for Cybersecurity & HealthFrom1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: IOF - mandates
- Criminal law under normative review: from the ultima ratio principle to its global dimensionFrom1 Nov 2022 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: BOF - mobility
Publications
1 - 10 of 644
- Relying on digital principles to complement existing rights: a human rights assessment of the 2022 European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles(2025)Edition: 2ndPages: 167-191Number of pages: 25
- Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence: To Govern or To Be Governed, That is the Question(2025)Series: Computers, Privacy and Data ProtectionNumber of pages: 306
- Moving in the Right Direction for Transborder Access to Digital Evidence in Criminal Matters? The Council of Europe and the Second Additional Protocol Introducing Direct Cooperation Mechanisms(2025)Pages: 200-218Number of pages: 19
- Transparent development and deployment of AI in healthcare: a multilayered accountability framework integrating law and computer science to address technological and human opacity(2025)Number of pages: 277
- Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment(2025)Published in: International Journal of Human RightsISSN: 1364-2987Issue: 6Volume: 29Pages: 1139-1162
- Rescuing six data portabilities in the EU digital strategy with purpose-fit data(2025)Number of pages: 277
- Hannah Arendt: People & Society in Plurality(2025)Number of pages: 12
- EU cross-regime enforcement, redundancy and interdependence. Addressing overlap of enforcement structures in the digital sphere after Meta(2024)Published in: Technology and RegulationISSN: 2666-139XPages: 291-308
- The Added Value of Data Protection within the Framework of Digital Constitutionalism in Europe(2024)Pages: 1-15Number of pages: 15
- Council of Europe(2024)Pages: 9-21Number of pages: 13