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[ecrea] three postdocs at Tilburg U (NL): Understanding information for legal protection of people against information-induced harms

Tue Nov 29 16:07:53 GMT 2016




The Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, invites applications for a 4,5 year postdoc position within an ERC project “Understanding information for legal protection of people against information-induced harms” (INFO-LEG) led by dr. Nadya Purtova (ERC Starting Grant 716971).

INFO-LEG aims to improve legal protection against harms of data processing, inter alia, based on the information studies insights on the nature of information, information processing technologies and practices. INFO-LEG will develop more appropriate information-related concept(s) to serve as a cornerstone of legal protection against information-induced harms.


Economics postdoc: www.academictransfer.com/36895

Information studies postdoc: www.academictransfer.com/36894

The thesis underlying the project is that the concept of personal data will in a short run cover all data, and hence is no longer an appropriate cornerstone for a system of legal protection. A system of legal protection based on such a concept will be impossible to comply with and to enforce. Therefore the project will look for alternative information-related concepts to serve as a trigger of legal protection. Among others, this will be done by conceptualising information and personal data from an economic perspective, as an economic good, and in the context of data markets. This track of the project will be pursued by an economics postdoc.

There will be also a parallel track for an ‘information studies’ postdoc who will look for alternative concepts in information theory and via information-studies analysis of the actual practices how data is generated, processed, attributed meaning and used. Both positions are for 4,5 years and have very attractive employment conditions.

I would be very thankful for your help distributing these vacancy announcements. I will be happy to provide more information on the project if necessary.


Dr Nadezhda Purtova
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT)
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
P.O. Box 90153. 5000 LE Tilburg
(n.n.purtova /at/ tilburguniversity.edu)

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