CMCL & IPRIA ECR Workshop by Application

Privacy, Politics and Law: in Conversation with Prof. Paul De Hert

The CMCL, IPRIA and Melbourne Law School is excited to announce that Professor Paul De Hert (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) – a renowned privacy scholar and organizer of the largest privacy conference in the world Computers Privacy and Data Protection  -  will be conducting an interdisciplinary workshop aimed at PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers. We invite applications from interested PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers from any faculty to apply (early career researchers are those who have been awarded a PhD in the last 5 years).

Professor Paul De Hert Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Date: Monday 2 October 2017 
Where: Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham St. Carlton, 3053, Boardroom lvl 10
(entry via level 9 stairs)

Professor De Hert will read and comment on the work of 8 to 10 participants. Places will also be available for up to ten non-presenting participants who wish to participate in the discussion, but who do not wish to receive feedback directly on their work. Applications are due by 14 August 2017, successful applicants will notified by 17 August 2017. Presenting participants will need to submit 3000 words of writing by 11 September 2017. The writing could be part of a chapter, an article, a book proposal, grant application or something else. If you submit an excerpt from a thesis, please also provide a 300 word abstract of the thesis as a whole. Both presenting and non-presenting participants will be expected to read the readings in advance of the Workshop. Participants will be advised of the readings at the time of selection.

Selected presenting participants from outside of Melbourne will be provided with a two night hotel accommodation in Melbourne (1st – 3rd October 2017).

In their application, Presenting Participants should include:
1) A one page letter which includes a brief description of:
*your research interests;
*the project on which you would like Professor de Hert to comment;
*why you would like to participate in this workshop and have Prof. de Hert comment on your work
*whether you would like to attend as a non-presenting participant if we are unable to include you as a presenting participant; and

2) A two page micro CV including current status and publications.
If you are interested only in attending as a Non-Presenting participant, please submit a short letter (of around half a page) explaining your current research interests, current status, and why the master class is of interest to you.

Apply: click here

Professor Paul De Hert's work addresses problems in the area of privacy & technology, human rights and criminal law. Currently he is expanding his scope of interest including research on issues with regard to the human rights status of the elderly and the principle of neutrality in a democratic state. To satisfy his multiple curiosities de Hert teams up regularly with other authors. A human rights approach combined with a concern for theory is the common denominator of all his work. He is Co-Director of the Research group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), Director of the Research group on human rights (HUMR), and Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (Metajuridics).

This Workshop is part of the CMCL and IPRIA Interdisciplinary Workshop Series.