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Ronald will hold his inaugural lecture on 16 April 2010 16:15 entitled: 'Harde lessen: een apologie voor regulering door technologie' (in Dutch).

Prof.dr. Ronald Leenes is professor in Regulation by Technology at TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University). His primary research interests are privacy and identity management, regulation of, and by, technology. He is also involved in research in ID fraud, biometrics and Online Dispute Resolution.

Ronald was work package leader in the EU FP6 PRIME project for socio-cultural aspects of privacy enhanced identity management.

He is currently responsible for TILT's contribution to the FP7 project PrimeLife and leads the work package on social networks and collaborative workspaces.

He has contributed to and edited various deliverables for the EU FP6 Network of Excellence 'Future of IDentity in the Information Society' (FIDIS) and he participates in the Network of Excellence 'Legal Framework for the Information Society' (LEFIS).

Ronald is project leader for the Layla project and contributor to the Delta G project which aim at developing ICT support for citizens/consumers to resolve their conflicts.

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News items

  • Programme Committee ISGIG 2009 - the Internet of the Future
      Ronald has joined the program committee of the ISGIG 2009 conference - the Internet of the Future, 15-17th Sept 2009, Prague.
  • New publication
    SIMONE VAN DER HOF, BERT JAAP KOOPS, AND RONALD LEENES, Anonymity and the Law in the Netherlands, in Ian Kerr, Valery Steeves & Carole Lucock, LESSONS FROM THE IDENTITY TRAIL ? Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society, Oxford University Press, 2009. Published under the Creative Commons License. Chapter available for download May 6th, 2009

Publications

Most recent publications

  • Hert, P.J.A. de, Koops, E.J., & Leenes, R.E. (2009). Constitutional rights and new technologies: A comparative perspective. In B. van Rompuy, C. Pauwels, H. Kalimo, & K. Donders (Eds.), Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy (pp. 319-350). Brussel: VUBPRESS Brussel University Press. Further information
  • Hof, S. van der, Koops, E.J., & Leenes, R.E. (2009). Anonymity and the law in the Netherlands. In V. Steeves, C. Lucock, & I. Kerr (Eds.), Lessons from the identity trail: Anonymity, privacy and identity in a networked society (pp. 503-521). New York: Oxford University Press. Further information
  • Hof, S. van der, Leenes, R.E., & Fennell-van Esch, S. (2009). Framing citizen's identities: The construction of personal identities in new modes of government in the Netherlands.  Further information
  • Klaming, L., Veenen, J. van, & Leenes, R.E. (2009). I want the opposite of what you want: Reducing fixed-pie perceptions in online negotiations. Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2009(1), 139-162. Further information
  • Koops, E.J., Leenes, R.E., Meints, M., Meulen, N.S. van der, & Jaquet-Chiffelle, D.O. (2009). A typology of identity-related crime: Conceptual, technical, and legal issues. Information, communication & society, 13(1), 1-24. Further information

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

 

Education

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'.


Career

Professional experience 1989 - 1992 PhD student, University of Twente, dept of Public administration 1992 - 2004 Assistent professor, University of Twente, dept of Public administration 2004 - 2005 Assistent professor, Law Dept. of Tilburg University 2005 - Associate professor, TILT ? Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University

Publications

Most recent publications

  • Hert, P.J.A. de, Koops, E.J., & Leenes, R.E. (2009). Constitutional rights and new technologies: A comparative perspective. In B. van Rompuy, C. Pauwels, H. Kalimo, & K. Donders (Eds.), Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy (pp. 319-350). Brussel: VUBPRESS Brussel University Press. Further information
  • Hof, S. van der, Koops, E.J., & Leenes, R.E. (2009). Anonymity and the law in the Netherlands. In V. Steeves, C. Lucock, & I. Kerr (Eds.), Lessons from the identity trail: Anonymity, privacy and identity in a networked society (pp. 503-521). New York: Oxford University Press. Further information
  • Hof, S. van der, Leenes, R.E., & Fennell-van Esch, S. (2009). Framing citizen's identities: The construction of personal identities in new modes of government in the Netherlands.  Further information
  • Klaming, L., Veenen, J. van, & Leenes, R.E. (2009). I want the opposite of what you want: Reducing fixed-pie perceptions in online negotiations. Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2009(1), 139-162. Further information
  • Koops, E.J., Leenes, R.E., Meints, M., Meulen, N.S. van der, & Jaquet-Chiffelle, D.O. (2009). A typology of identity-related crime: Conceptual, technical, and legal issues. Information, communication & society, 13(1), 1-24. Further information

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

Projects

  • 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.

Direct and indirect funding

  • 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;

Collaboration

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

External accreditation

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

Conferences

Presentations/invited lectures:

  • Edinburgh, St. Louis, Wenen, York, Aberystwyth, Exeter, Rhodos, Honolulu, Regensburg, Girona, Aix-en-Provence, Stockholm, Nottingham, Durham, Zaragoza);
    • 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.

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    Teaching

     Ronald Leenes teaches the elective Bachelor 2 course 'Law & Technology'


    R.E. Leenes teaches the following subjects:

    Teaching activities outside the Tilburg University

     Ronald teaches 'Law in Cyberspace' in the Kerckhoffs' Master programme of TUe, RU Nijmegen and UT.

    Other activities

    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

     

     

    Contact details
    Room M 708
    PO Box 90153
    5000 LE Tilburg
    Tel. +31 13 466 3655
     If no reply +31 13 466 8199
    Fax. +31 13 466 3750
    Email r.e.leenes@uvt.nl

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