Mireille Hildebrandt started her academic life with a taste of cultural anthropology, later switching to law. She took her law degree from Leyden University in the Netherlands and defended her PhD thesis in the philosophy of criminal law at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, integrating legal anthropology and legal history to develop a hermeneutic phenomenology of punishment. Since 2002 she has been seconded as senior researcher to Law Science Technology and Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, presently working on a 5 year research project that she co-authored on 'Law and Autonomic Computing: Mutual Transformations', see at http://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/research/lawandautonomiccomputing.pdf. As coordinator of Profiling within the EU funded network on the Future of Identity in Information Society FIDIS (www.fidis.net), she has been working on the implications of emerging technologies like Ambient Intelligence for central tenets of democracy and the rule of law. Her research interests concern the relationship between the emerging socio-technical infrastructure (internet, Web 2.0, Ambient Intelligence) and the autonomy of the human subject that is both presumed and produced by constitutional democracy.
Articles
JUSTICE AND POLICE: REGULATORY OFFENSES AND THE CRIMINAL LAW, New Criminal Law Review (2009)
This contribution stems from a workshop on foundational issues in the philosophy of criminal law....
Profiling and the Rule of Law, Identity in Information Society (IDIS) (2008)
Both corporate and global governance seem to demand increasingly sophisticated means for identification. Supposedly justified...
Legal and technological normativity: more (and less) than twin sisters, TECHNE (2008)
Within science technology and society studies the focus has long been on descriptive micro-analyses. Several...
Ambient Intelligence, Criminal Liability and Democracy, Criminal Law and Philosophy (2008)
In this contribution we will explore some of the implications of the vision of Ambient...
Books
Controlling Security in a Culture of Fear (2009)
Who controls security in a culture of fear? The erosion of traditional safeguards in the...
Profiling the European Citizen. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (with Serge Gutwirth), Serge Gutwirth (2008)
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society...
Vrijheid en straf. Ontstaan en ontwikkeling van straf en strafrecht in het denken van P.W.A. Immink (1908-1965) (2005)
Internationaal terrorisme en ander vormen van grensoverschrijdend geweld roepen oude en nieuwe vragen op ten...
Straf(begrip) en procesbeginsel. (Meaning and Concept of Punishment and the Principle of Trial before Punishment) (2002)
Deze dissertatie gaat in op de consensuele - althans buitengerechtelijke - afdoening van strafzaken als...
Contributions to Books
Profiling and AmI, The Future of Identity in the Information Society. Challenges and Opportunities (2009)
Some of the most critical challenges for ‘the future of identity in information society’ must...
Technology and the end of law, Facing the limits of the law (2009)
In this chapter we will argue that if we do not embody legal norms in...
Who is Profiling Who? Invisible Visibility, Reinventing Data Protection? (2009)
Asking the question whether the fundamental concepts of the Data Protection regulation are still adequate...
A Vision of Ambient Law, Regulating Technologies (2008)
On 1 November 1755, All Saints’ Day, Lisbon was shocked by an earthquake that brought...
Working Papers
Bridging the Accountability Gap: Rights for New Entities in the Information Society? (with Bert-Jaap Koops and David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle) (2009)
New entities in the information society that operate at increasing distance from the physical persons...
De reflexiviteit van het risico-denken : een reflectie op veiligheid en recht (2009)
In deze bijdrage zal ik twee reflecties uitwerken naar aanleiding van de idee van reflexieve...
Selves and Things. Dubravna Ugresic and Profiling Technologies (2009)
In her humourous and painfull descriptions of the lives of (former) Yugoslavians, Dubravna Ugresic keenly...
The Collapse of Distance in Real Time Computing, Working Paper presented at the International Conference on Tilting Perspectives on Regulating Technologies, 10-11 December 2008 at the TILT institute of Tilburg University, see http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/law/research/tilt/conference/ (2008)
In this paper I want to present a problem that – I must admit –...
Human rights as preconditions for intercultural society, Paper presented at the International Conference on the Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative in the Light of European IntegrationLaw, Brussels 24-26 October 2002 (2002)
In this contribution human rights will be considered not simply as conditions for an intercultural...
Presentations
Grensbewegingen tussen technologie en recht, Seminar Book Presentation Facing the Limits of the Law (2009)
Dit is de Nederlandstalige introductie van mijn hoofdstuk 'Technology and the end of law' in...