The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT à Louvain...

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT (ICRI) is a research centre at the Faculty of Law of K.U.Leuven dedicated to advance and promote legal knowledge about the information society through research and teaching of the highest quality. ICRI is also among the founding members of The LEUVEN Center on Information and Communication Technology (LICT) and IBBT.

ICRI is committed to contribute to a better and more efficient regulatory and policy framework for information & communication technologies (ICTs). Its research is focused on the design of innovative legal engineering techniques and is characterised by its intra- and interdisciplinary approach, constantly aspiring cross-fertilisation between legal, technical, economic and socio-cultural perspectives. By conducting groundbreaking legal research in a spirit of academic freedom and freedom of inquiry, ICRI aspires to a place among the centres of excellence in the area of law & ICT in Europe and beyond.

Based on this extensive research expertise, ICRI also provides excellent education programmes and courses in Dutch and English, such as the highly attractive Master (LL.M.) in IP / ICT Law. In this way, ICRI is able to share its expertise with students, scholars and practitioners from around the globe and guide them through the complex world of Law & ICT.

ICRI also uses its knowledge to contribute to the improvement of the legal policy and practice with regard to Law & ICT by providing advisory and consultancy services to legislators, public bodies or private enterprises.

ICRI’s current staff counts 2 full time professors, 5 full time postdoctoral researchers, 15 full time doctoral and legal researchers, 2 full time administrative assistants and a broad network of affiliated researchers.


http://www.law.kuleuven.be/icri/about_eng.php

Publications:

By topic

Data Privacy and Information Security Law
Security and trust
Information Security, Trust, E-Commerce, E-Signatures,
E-government
E-gov Applications, Online Voting, E-Justice
Privacy Protection & Identity Management
Personal Data Protection, Identity Management, Anonymity
Cybercrime
Cybercrime, hacking, illegal content
E-health
Patient rights, Home-care systems

New Media and Communications Law
Electronic Communications Services and Infrastructure
Transmission of Electronic Signals, Telecommunications Networks and Services
Content Regulation
Media law, User Generated Content, Harmful Content, Filtering and Rating Software

Information Rights Management
Preservation of information
Digital archiving, digital libraries, preservation of cultural heritage
Public Information Availability
Public Sector Information, Geographic Data, Spatial Date Infrastructures
Legal Information Systems & Information Retrieval
Legal Expert Systems & Information Retrieval
Intellectual property
Copyright, Neighbouring rights, Database Protection

http://www.law.kuleuven.be/icri/all_pubs.php