Prof. Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth is a professor of human rights, legal theory, comparative law and legal research at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where he studied law, criminology and also obtained a post-graduate degree in technology and science studies. Until 2010 he also held a part-time position of lecturer at the Faculty of law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he taught philosophy of law.

Since October 2003 Gutwirth is holder of a 10 year research fellowship in the framework of the VUB-Research contingent for his project ‘Sciences and the democratic constitutional state: a mutual transformation process’. Gutwirth founded and still chairs the VUB-Research group Law Science Technology & Society. He publishes widely in Dutch, French and English and participates in (inter)national and interdisciplinary research projects (FP6, FP7). Gutwirth has been (co-)promoter of 8 publicly defended PhD’s and he has often been invited to be an external member of PhD-juries in other universities in Belgium and abroad. He is a member of several editorial boards of scientific journals.

Currently, Serge Gutwirth is particularly interested both in technical legal issues raised by technology (particularly in the field of data protection and privacy) and in more generic issues related to the articulation of law, sciences, technologies and societies.