Mireille HildebRandt Works Onthe nexUsof phiLOsopHy of technology and philoSoPhy of lAw. She took a law degreE at LEyden University (NetheRlands) and defenDEd her PhD In thePhiloSophy of law and is an ASsociate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam (Netherlands). Since 2002 she has been seconded part-time to the Centre of Law Science Technology and Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and her research interests focus on the implications of 'smart' infrastructures for the checks and balances of constitutional democracy. She has written and edited a number of books and publishes widely on issues of technology, democracy and the rule of law. She is Associate Editor of Criminal Law and Philosophy and of Identity in the Information Society. With Serge Gutwirth she edited Profiling the European Citizen. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (2008). She is a member of the ENISA Stakeholderforum, and has coordinated joint research on Profiling within the EC funded European Network of Excellence on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS) from 2004-2009. She is also Dean of Education of the Research School of Safety and Justice in the Netherlands. 

 

Research Networks and Activities:

• The Centre for Law Science Technology and Society at Vrije Universiteit Brussels
• FIDIS is multidisciplinary NoE on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS), financed by the EC as a FP6 project. Its focus has been on issues around identificiation technologies, such as privacy, identity management, profiling
• ENISA is the European Network and Information Security Agency of the European Commission, it has developed a risk assessment model for emerging and future risks (EFR)