Law & Digital Compliance
Law & Digital Compliance
Big Data, artificial intelligence, Robots, 3D Printing, the Smart Factory and Social Media. All terms that are linked to the technological and social changes we face at work, at home, at school, when buying products on the internet or voting in an election.
What rules and standards are needed to ensure that Big Data and artificial intelligence can be used to support us in our own needs? And what frameworks are needed to prevent these technologies from being at the expense of our society? To what extent is established legislation resistant to accelerated digitization? And what legal shortcomings must be bridged by the new legislation? In short: Digital Governance must be considered.
Digital Governance (DIGOV) is the name of the expert practice, which was initiated by the European Commission as a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. Klaus Heine is the director of this international center, and Evert Stamhuis is a senior scholar at the center. You can read more about Klaus’ recent work here.
Research Projects
Research of “Law & Digital Compliance” is focused on the following sub-themes:
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Legal Personality of AI;
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Ownership rights in a digital society;
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Digital Governance, legal compliance and cybersecurity
Klaus and Evert disseminate their work in prestigious journals, conferences and externally funded research projects. They are doing policy advice, run the Master “Law and Technology” and have launched the MOOC “Digital Governance” and the podcast series “Digital Governance“, which is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
With publications on the following topics:
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What Do Privacy Scholars Maximize? – Law as a Practice and Law as a Science, in: European Journal of Privacy Law and Technologies (EJPLT), Special Issue, 2025, pp. 1-9 (online)
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Autonomous Decision Making as a Challenge for Legal Research, in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2025, pp. 1-22 (online first).
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Bridging the Accountability Gap of Artificial Intelligence – What Can be Learned from Roman law? in: Legal Studies, Vol. 44, 2024, pp. 56-80 (with A. Quintavalla).
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From bottleneck to enabler: a new approach to regulating data-driven medical research, in: Clinical and Translational Imaging, Vol. 11, 2023, pp. 311–313 (with E. Stamhuis, L. Evangelista, S. van der Voort, et al).
Experts
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Prof. Dr. Evert Stamhuis
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Farshida Zafar LL.M.