Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Group (LSTS)

LSTS is an interdisciplinary Research Group focusing upon the articulations of law, science, technology, ethics and society. Based at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), LSTS engages in a variety of legal disciplines ranging from legal theory to positive law, and its legal research recurrently intersects with disciplines such as philosophy (of law, of sciences and of technology), science and technology studies (STS), computer science, digital sociology, communication studies, and critical data studies, among others. LSTS is an internationally recognised centre of expertise on privacy and data protection law. Its research generally explores digitalisation and digitalisations’ impact and regulation from a European and global perspectives, covering subjects such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), health, surveillance, discrimination, fundamental rights, gender or (cyber-)security.