Experts & Expertise

• Computer crime
• Computer science law
• Computer science law
• Decision support systems
• Expert systems
• Identity management
• Internet
• Nanotechnology
• Privacy
• Public administration
• Rfid

PhD: Twente University, 7 January 1999, title: 'Hercules of Karneades, hard cases in recht en rechtsinformatica' (in Dutch), Hercules or Karneades, Hard Cases in Law and Artificial Intelligence and Law'

MA: Twente University, dept of Public Administration, 7 November 1989, 'Knowledge representation issues in Legal Knowledge Based Systems'.

Professional experience

2009 - Full professor, TILT - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University

2005 - 2009 Associate professor, TILT - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University

2004 - 2005 Assistant professor, Law Dept. of Tilburg University

1992 - 2004 Assistant professor, University of Twente, dept of Public administration

1989 - 1992 PhD student, University of Twente, dept of Public administration

• EU FP7 ENDORSE:
• EU FP7 Virtuoso (2010-2012): Virtuoso aims to provide the security authorities with an advanced integrated toolkit, developed around an "open" architecture to exploit open source information for decision support. Providing at each step actionable, rated, validated information.Integrated in an open framework in order to accept existing or future tools. Compliant with legal and ethical issues.
• EU FP7 PrimeLife: socio-cultural and legal aspects of privacy-enhancing identity management, social networks and privacy throughout life, current research (2008-2011).
• EU FP6 project PRIME (Privacy and Identity management): socio-cultural aspects of privacy-enhancing identity management, current research (2004-2008).
• EU FP6 Network of Excellence project FIDIS: ID-fraud; identity management systems; profiling, current research (2004-2009). NWO Netwerken voor Netwerken: Identity management in citizen-government interactions, current research.
• Layla, the Layman's Legal Assistent: online dispute resolution mechanism, current research;
• 'Code & Privacy',ITeR project 'Code as Code', 2005.

• Onderzoek naar het gebruik van het Burgerservicenummer (BSN) binnen de keten van de elektronische dienstverlening tussen de overheid en bedrijven. Commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MinEZ), 2010.
• BurgerServiceCode: legal status of Burger Service Code, current research. Compound identities: a study on the consequences of the creation and use of compound identities by public and private agences, current research.
• Converging Technologies: prospective analysis of the meaning of converging technologies for the Rechtstaat, and law enforcement. Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, 2007.
• Hard to Get: copyright licenses for collective bargaining organisations. Commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 2005.
• Constitutional Rights and New Technologies: Comparative research regarding Constitutional Rights and New Technologies in Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, the USA and Sweden. Commisioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, 2007.
• Evaluation of the Central Server Building Permits. Commisioned by ZenC & City of Rotterdam,2004;
• Data sharing in law enforcement. Commisioned by the European AGIS project, 2004;

Ronald was a visiting scholar at the Law Faculty of the University of Ottawa, Canada in October-November 2007.

Dr. Ronald Leenes is a member of the Advisory Board Societal Issues of ICT-Regie (Dutch)

Presentations/invited lectures:

• Delft, 'Sociale netwerken die voldoen aan normen', ECP-EPN seminar 'Identiteitsmanagement: kostbaar vertrouwen', 17 June 2010.
• Tilburg, dagvoorzitter (11 mei) van het Landelijk Congres der Bestuurskunde 2010 (LCB-X) - De staat van privacy, Tilburg 10-11 mei 2010.
• Amsterdam, 7 May 2010, Privacy in sociale netwerken?, Surfnet Academy Spring School, 7 May, Amsterdam.
• Florence, 18 February 2010, Location based surveillance, why planes, trains and automobiles are the new castles, 2nd Detector meeting, Florence, Italy.
• Den Haag, 4 februari 2010, privacy in sociale netwerken?, Beveiligingsconferentie SURFnet / SURFibo ? Den Haag, 4 februari 2010
• Tilburg, 13 November 2009, Nano-regulering ? een verkenning., Nanoregulering symposium: reuze-oplossingen voor dwergproblemen?
• Leuven, 5 November 2009, Where the rubber meets the road: Privacy and Sociability in Social Network Sites., A workshop on future research challenges for privacy and security in online social networks, Leuven, Belgium.
• Utrecht, 13 October 2009, Identiteitsmanagement, juridische dag SURF-IBO, Utrecht.
• Brussels, 16 Jan 2009, Social Network Sites ? about (re)discovering social norms and public goods, lecture at the Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection conference.
• Tilburg, 11 Dec 2008, Identity online, or how the market banks on social capital, lecture at the TILTing perspectives on regulating technologies conference, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
• Delft, 24 Oct 2008, Understanding privacy & identity in social networks, keynote at Privacy in Social Network Sites conference.
• keynote Privacy in social networks, IFIP/FIDIS 2008 Summerschool, Brno, Czech Republic, 4 September 2008;
• Keynote on privacy issues in social networks, KNAW-symposium 'Identiteit in virtuele werelden', Amsterdam, 18 September 2008;
• keynote on PRIME survey, PRIME closing event, Leuven, 21 July 2008;
• keynote on privacy enhancing identity management, eIdentity Conference op 10 June 2008, Den Haag;
• keynote on privacy enhancing identity management, ECP.NL bijeenkomst, Leidschendam, 9 April 2008;
• Keynote address, IFIP/FIDIS 2007 Summerschool, Karlstad, Sweden september 2007;
• 'Game or Social experiment - privacy in the metaverse', University of Ottawa, 15 November 2007.
• 'Google/Doubleclick vs. The People. Do they know me? Unraveling online profiling and identifiability', University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies, 29 November 2007.
• Edinburgh, St. Louis, Wenen, York, Aberystwyth, Exeter, Rhodos, Honolulu, Regensburg, Girona, Aix-en-Provence, Stockholm, Nottingham, Durham, Zaragoza);

R.E. Leenes teaches the following subjects:

• Law and Technology (620056) Further information

dr. Ronald Leenes is the current Academic Director of TILT.

• member of the editorial committee of Law, Innovation and Technology 
• Secretary of the Jurix Foundation, May 2000 - Feb 2004.
  
• Board member of the Jurix Foundation.
  
• Senior researcher of the Netherlands Institute for Governance (NIG).
  
• Reviewer for the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO)
  
• Reviewer for the Flemish Federal Scientific Council, 2005

PC member/Reviewer of numerous international conferences, such as:

• CPDP - Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conferences, annually held in Brussels

  IFIP SEC 2010, 20-23 Sept 2010, Brisbane - Security & Privacy ? Silver Linings in the Cloud

• IFIP IDMAN 2010
• ISGIG 2009 - the Internet of the Future
• IFIP/FIDIS/PrimeLife Summerschools, 2009, 2008, 2007
• IDMAN'07
• VOTEID07
• Jurix
  
• KMGov 2004, 2003
• Dexa 2004, 2003
• IRMA 2004, 2003

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