SUMMER SCHOOL 2019

4th European Data Protection Law Summer School: Advancing (with) EU data protection

The Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH)’s European Data Protection Law Summer School is the only Summer School fully devoted to European data protection law and policy taking place in Brussels, gathering each year in the capital of Europe participants from all over the world interested in knowing how to apply but also how to situate, and think beyond, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Combining lectures by internationally recognised speakers, hand-on practical cases, and role-playing, it brings students directly into the heart of European Union’s legal and policy-making to give them a full-fledged vision of the challenges and opportunities of EU’s data protection, and its global role.

Goals

During five days, participants explore EU’s primary and secondary law, and engage with a variety of stakeholders ranging from practitioners with worldwide privacy expertise, representatives of key EU institutions including the European Commission and the European Parliament, data protection authorities among which the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), digital rights advocates, and leading academics from Europe and beyond. It also provides a unique opportunity to network with, and learn from, equally interested participants.

Building on the success of its three previous editions, the 4th European Data Protection Law Summer School will, under the title ‘Advancing (with) EU data protection’, notably address:

• Key features of EU’s primary and secondary law, and its fundamental rights dimension;
• The GDPR: Status of implementation and open questions;
• Obligations of data controllers and processors;
• Data subject rights;
• Data protection authorities and the role of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB);
• International data transfers, with particular attention to EU – United States (US) data transfers;
• The ‘Law Enforcement’ Data Protection Directive;
• Data protection and humanitarian action;
• E-privacy: Quo vadis?;
• Towards post-Brexit European data protection.

Confirmed Lecturers

• Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias (Facebook)
• Cédric Burton (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
• Marta Borrat i Frigola (ABN AMRO Bank N.V)
• Giovanni Buttarelli (European Data Protection Supervisor)
• Michał Czerniawski (Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU)
• Paul De Hert (Brussels Privacy Hub, LSTS, VUB)
• Christopher Docksey (Former EDPS)
• Gloria González Fuster (Brussels Privacy Hub, LSTS, VUB)
• Hielke Hijmans (Brussels Privacy Hub, LSTS, VUB and Belgian Data Protection Authority)
• Mireille Hildebrandt (LSTS, VUB)
• Meg Leta Jones (Georgetown University)
• Gianclaudio Malgieri (Brussels Privacy Hub, LSTS, VUB)
• Kristiina Milt (European Parliament)
• Shara Monteleone (European Parliament)
• Teodora Pimpireva (MasterCard)
• Joris Van Hoboken (LSTS, VUB)
• Audrey Van Scharen (LSTS, VUB)
• Juraj Sajfert (European Commission)
• Heidi Waem (Crowell & Moring)
• Brendan Van Alsenoy (Belgian Data Protection Authority)

The programmme also includes a number of Hub events, featuring:

• The (In)Alienable Data Subject: The seductions of data ownership, control and trade in data protection law (Chaired by Mr Paul Nemitz, European Commission and confirmed speakers Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University; Vaclav Janecek, Oxford University; Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham and Turing Institute)

• Meet the Author Series: "The right to erasure safeguard for informational self-determination in a digital society?" (Dr Jef Ausloos, KU Leuven & University of Amsterdam) (Chaired by Hielke Hijmans, VUB and Belgian DPA and confirmed speakers Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University; Thomas Zerdick, EDPS)

• PERSONA (Privacy, Ethical, Regulatory and SOcial No-gate crossing point solution Assessment) project workshop: Towards a comprehensive method for impact assessment of no-gate crossing technologies at European borders

• The Connected DPO: Networks, Professional Associations and Beyond (Chaired by Gloria González Fuster, LSTS, VUB and confirmed speakers Cecilia Álvarez Rigaudias, Asociación Profesional Española de Privacidad (APEP); Christophe Boeraeve, Association Française des Correspondants à la protection des Données à caractère Personnel (AFCDP); Gonca G.Dhont, DPO Network Europe)  

Programme

Please note that the programme may be subject to small changes. 

See the programme here.

Practical Information

Date: 24-28 June 2019

Location: Institute for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 5, B-1050, Brussels.

Language: English.

Target audience: The summer school is aimed at legal practitioners, public and private sector data protection professionals - including compliance officers, data protection officers, data policy officers - civil society professionals, early career academic researchers and others who work in the areas of privacy and data protection law. Prior familiarity with the field is required.

Certificate: Participants will receive a certificate of attendance indicating that they have attended the full programme.

Accreditation: IAPP professionals can receive 10.25 CPE credits. 

Registration:

Registration is now closed as the summer school is full. For any queries please contact info@brusselsprivacyhub.eu

Early Bird Registration:

Professionals: 1800 €

Early Career Academics: 1600 €

Civil Society: 1300 €

Standard Registration:

Professionals: 2000   €

Early Career Academics: 1800  €

Civil Society: 1500 €

The deadlines for registration are as follows:

• Early bird registration: The early bird registration deadline has been extended to 20 April 2019.
• Standard registration: Friday 14 June  2019 

Accommodation:

The registration fee does not include accommodation. Information about accommodation is provided below:

The VUB U-residence provides accommodation on the VUB Campus: http://www.u-residence.be/en/register

Other accommodation is available in Brussels:

www.booking.com

www.airbnb.com

Summer school organisers:

• Professor Gloria González Fuster, Summer School Co-ordinator
• Laura Drechsler, Summer School Assistant

Further information: 

Laura Drechsler

Brussels Privacy Hub,

Law, Science, Technology and Society

Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

Pleinlaan 2 

B-1050 Brussels 

Belgium 

E: laura.drechsler@vub.be

W: www.brusselsprivacyhub.eu

Cancellation policy:

• Cancellation must be done in writing.
• Cancellation one month before the beginning of the summer school: 100% refund
• Cancellation less than one month before the beginning of the summer school: 250 euros.
• Cancellation less than two weeks before the beginning of the summer school: no refund available.

The Brussels Privacy Hub would like to acknowledge the collaboration and assistance of the following organisations:

Previous Summer schools

• 1st European Data Protection Law Summer School: Getting to grips with the GDPR (4-8 July 2016)
• 2nd European Data Protection Law Summer School: The GDPR is Now (26-30 June 2017)
• 3rd European Data Protection Law Summer School: Putting the GDPR into practice and in context (24-28 June 2018)

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