Professor Paul de Hert is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), is Director of the Research Group on Human Rights (FRC) and former Director of the Research group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), and of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law. He is also currently associated-professor at the Tilburg Department Law, Technology, Markets, and Society (LTMS). He is board member of several Belgian, Dutch and (other) international scientific journals such as The Computer Law & Security Review (Elsevier), The Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal (Intersentia) and Criminal Law & Philosophy (Springer). He is co-editor in chief of the Supranational Criminal Law Series (Intersentia) and the New Journal of European Criminal law (Sage).