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 Erasmus University Rotterdam, integrating legal anthropology and legal history to develop a hermeneutic phenomenology of punishment. She is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Erasmus School of Law. 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. As of January 2011 she also holds the Chair 'Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law' at the Institute of Computer and Information Sciences (ICIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Articles
The Challenges of Ambient Law and Legal Protection in the Profiling Era (with Bert-Jaap Koops), The Modern Law Review (2010)
Ambient Intelligence is a vision of a future in which autonomic smart environments take an...
Bridging the Accountability Gap: Rights for New Entities in the Information Society? (with Bert-Jaap Koops and David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle), Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (2010)
New entities in the information society that operate at increasing distance from the physical persons...
Juridische bescherming 'by design'?, Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie (2010)
Dit is een redactioneel voor het tijdschrift van de Vereniging Wijsbegeerte van het Recht: Rechtsfilosofie...
Privacy en identiteit in slimme omgevingen, Computerrecht (2010)
Omgevingen zijn slim omdat ze anticiperen op ons toekomstig gedrag. Op basis van een voortdurende...
The Indeterminacy of an Emergency: Challenges to Criminal Jurisdiction in Constitutional Democracy, Criminal Law and Philosophy (2010)
In this contribution I address the type of emergency that threatens a state’s monopoly of...
Books
De rechtsstaat in cyberspace? (2011)
Cyberspace is inmiddels overal. Wat tien jaar geleden misschien nog een aparte niet-fysieke wereld leek...
Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology (2011)
Autonomic computing refers to self-managing computing systems that are capable of reconfiguring their own program...
Zorg om voorzorg (with Roel Pieterman), Zorgen om voorzorg (2010)
De bundel 'Zorg om voorzorg', komt voort uit de studiedag van 7 november 2008 met...
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...
Contributions to Books
Criminal Liability and 'Smart' Environments, Philosophical Foundations of the Criminal Law (2011)
The spread of smart applications touches the foundations of the criminal law, notably causality, wrongfulness,...
Law at a Crossroads: Losing the Thread of Regaining Control? 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/ (2010)
Control at a distance (cybernetics) has been one of the achievements of modern law. Since...
Proactive Forensic Profiling: Proactive Criminalization?, The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (2010)
"With the aid of your precog mutants, you've boldly and successfully abolished the post-crime punitive...
Recht en markt: met falen en opstaan, Het binnenste buiten. Liber amicorum ter gelegenheid van het emeritaat van prof. dr. Aernout H.J. Schmidt, hoogleraar Recht en Informatica te Leiden (2010)
Inleiding
Mijn waardering voor Aernout Schmidts bescheidenheid, eruditie en historisch besef is des te groter...
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...
Working Papers
Oordeelsvorming door mens en machine: heuristieken, algoritmes en legitimatie (2011)
Gezien de ontwikkelingen op het terrein van ‘data mining’, ‘machine learning’, en neurale netwerken is...
Human rights as preconditions for intercultural society (2010)
In this contribution human rights will be considered not simply as conditions for an intercultural...
Selves and Things. Dubravna Ugresic and Profiling Technologies (2009)
In her humourous and painfull descriptions of the lives of (former) Yugoslavians, Dubravna Ugresic keenly...
Presentations
The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts, The Computational Turn in the Humanities (2010)
Positive law, inscribed in legal texts, entails an authority not inherent in literary texts, generating...
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...