WELCOME TO THE JOINT INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL DEGREE IN LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NEWS!!

With this message we would like to apologise for the slight delay in the notification of the 2012 EM fellowship selection. The Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has not yet comunicated the official results, which should be available by the end of next week. Once the results become available, will be given an official communication to the selected candidates.

RESULTS OF THE PROCEDURE SELECTION

RESULT OF THE FIRST STEP: *** LIST OF THE NOT ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES ***

RESULT OF THE SECOND STEP: *** LIST OF THE ADMITTED CANDIDATES TO THE INTERVIEW ***

RESULT OF THE THIRD STEP: *** MAIN LISTS, RESERVE LISTS, NON-SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS LIST, NON-SELECTED LIST *** NEW!! UPDATED March 26th
A private communication is provided to each candidate.

***** NEWS: new definition of category A and B ****

The Joint International Doctoral Degree in “Law, Science and Technology” is an interdisciplinary integrated doctorate designed to address new challenges in legal, socio-ethical and technical domains arising from the information society and newly emerging technologies. There are rapidly evolving sectors of Information Technology and Life Sciences that need legal and ethical instruments for avoiding malpractice and for shaping policies and strategies in conducting scientific research and disseminating its results to industry and society. New opportunities emerge to use Information Technology to face the complexity of Law in contemporary society. All this requires a set of interdisciplinary competencies that are usually lacking in the graduate market due to a lack of vision and strategy.

The “Law, Science and Technology” doctorate aims to address the problem of fragmentation that exists in Europe in this interdisciplinary area, by setting up a robust doctoral programme inspired by the Stanford programme in Law, Science and Technology, while also addressing the unique requirements of Europe by looking at the impact of European cultural identities on ethical, medical and legal discussion, as well as at the specifics of European regulations. The programme covers three different research fields with its curricula:

• “Bioethics and Biolaw”, which looks at the legal and ethical problems of advances in biology and medicine;

• “ICT Law”, addressing the legal risks and opportunities in ICT, and

• “Legal Informatics”, an area of informatics taking into account legal issues, including alI techniques applied to legal domain.

This programme promotes the excellence, innovation and competitiveness of Europe in critical legal and ethical fields such as the regulation of privacy, genomics and biobank, e-government, e-health and e-commerce, the right to free speech on the Internet and the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) with respect to new technologies. Moreover, it furthers the design of new software to support the legal profession, including systems based on the explicit representation of laws and regulations in computable form, including the topic of “check compliance” with international, European and national legal frameworks.