eLAW
ELAW, Leiden Law School’s Centre for Law and Digital Technologies, leads the research and analysis related to ethical and privacy issues and contribute on legal and ethical issues. In particular, ELAW focuses on the activities providing a starting research point and establishing common ground to further analyse ethical, legal, social and economic issues. It also leads the activities conducting to the validation of the emerging privacy-preserving technologies.
Leiden University is one of Europe's oldest and foremost research universities. It was founded in 1575 and is a member of the League of European Research Universities. Leiden Law School, which is one of the oldest faculties in this university, combines a high level of academic teaching with acclaimed and innovative research.
ELAW, Leiden Law School’s Centre for Law and Digital Technologies, is a multi-disciplinary institute that brings together a unique set of expertise on the legal, philosophical and social implications of the information society. eLaw conducts fundamental and applied research on the legal, social and technological regulation of the Internet and other technologies. The core of eLaw research focuses on the rule of law in the information society by studying fundamental rights and principles in a number of specific, often interrelated, domains across the legal areas of private law, criminal law, administrative law, privacy and data protection law, youth law, IP (copyright and patent) law, media law, telecommunications law, and procurement law.