Simone Casiraghi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral researcher at IViR, where he will be conducting the project “Systemic Risks and Fundamental Rights: investigating Risk Assessments in the Digital Services Act” under the supervision of Joris van Hoboken.
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Introducing…Marie-Therese Sekwenz
Marie-Therese Sekwenz is a postdoctoral researcher at IViR. She works with João Pedro Quintais on the NWO Vidi project Generative AI Content Moderation: Regulation for Fundamental Rights, which examines how EU law can address the moderation of generative AI content while protecting fundamental rights, particularly freedom of expression.
Introducing new visiting researchers, part 1
IViR is pleased to introduce our new visiting researchers Isabella Panico, Anaïs Bayrou and Sara Gallone.
Introducing new staff
Since the summer, a number of new members of staff have joined IViR. In this post we introduce Aimen Taimur, who started last summer and Sofia Zampedri who started in September.
Vacancies: 2 PhD positions
IViR is looking for candidates for 2 PhD positions: (1) Systematic Actors and the Enforcement of Digital Rules and (2) Access, Actors and Accountability: The Role of Researchers in AI Governance.
End of an era … start of a new beginning
Last week IViR said goodbye to Anja Dobbelsteen, while we welcomed Carla Lampers at IViR from the 1st of September.
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR)
The rapid expansion of generative AI, cloud computing and cryptocurrency is driving unprecedented demand for data centres. Governments increasingly treat these facilities as essential infrastructure and compete to attract them through accelerated permitting, public subsidies and preferential access to energy and land. At the same time, communities are beginning to contest their demands on electricity, water and territory, as well as the secrecy surrounding their environmental and fiscal consequences.
Inspiring conference at IViR about economic aspects of copyright
On 6 and 7 July, IViR hosted the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI). Academics, practitioners, government representatives and others from all across the world, united by their interest in the various economic aspects of copyright, gathered at the Institute for Information Law for two content-packed days with a keynote address by Imke Reimers (Cornell University), more than twenty other high-quality paper presentations and numerous inspiring conversations.
Successful Summer Courses on International Copyright and Policy and European Platform Regulation
In the first week of July, PhD candidates, practicing lawyers and civil society participants set course for Amsterdam to attend IViR’s annual Summer Courses on International Copyright and Policy and European Platform Regulation.
New book: The Cambridge Handbook of Media Law and Policy in Europe
This handbook analyses pressing legal and policy issues that have arisen in the rapidly changing media ecosystem: from threats to media freedom and pluralism and the safety of journalists to challenges arising from the shift to platform-based communication, the spread of disinformation and the impact of AI on media and news production.