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Criminal Law And Technology In A Data-Driven Society, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2014

Criminal Law And Technology In A Data-Driven Society, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

This chapter takes leave of the idea that lawyers can remain immersed in legal text. It takes a stand for a careful reflection on what data-driven architectures do to some of the assumptions of modern law that are mistakenly taken for granted. Merely enacting the presumption of innocence by means of legal code will not do in the present future. If the defaults of Big Data analytics all point in the direction of precrime punishment or the pre-emption of inferred criminal intent, we need to reconfigure the smart decision systems that progressively mediate the perception and cognition of law enforcement …


Eccentric Positionally As A Precondition For The Criminal Liability For Artificial Life Forms, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2014

Eccentric Positionally As A Precondition For The Criminal Liability For Artificial Life Forms, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

This contribution explores Plessner’s distinction between animal centricity and human eccentricity as “a difference that makes a difference” for the attribution of criminal liability to artificial life forms (ALFs). Building on the work of Steels and Bourgine & Varela on artificial life and Matura & Varela’s notion of autopoiesis I will reason that even if ALFs are autonomous in the sense even of having the capacity to rewrite their own program, this in itself is not enough to understand them as autonomous in the sense of instantiating an eccentric position that allows for reflection on their actions as their own …


Criminal Liability And 'Smart' Environments, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2011

Criminal Liability And 'Smart' Environments, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

The spread of smart applications touches the foundations of the criminal law, notably causality, wrongfulness, and legal personhood. First, distributed multi-agent systems form hybrid networks that exhibit emergent behaviours that cannot be attributed to either one of the agents or explained in terms of an aggregation of actions. This makes it hard to determine which action actually caused the harm or the damage that would normally be addressed by the criminal law. Second, it is hard to imagine a smart environment or infrastructure itself becoming the culprit of a criminal charge, but at some point we may have to concede …


De Contrafakticiteit Van De Rechtsstaat In Een Postnationale Rechtsorde, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2011

De Contrafakticiteit Van De Rechtsstaat In Een Postnationale Rechtsorde, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

In deze bijdrage wil ik de implicaties van de meervoudig gelaagde rechtsordes voor de rechtsstaat traceren. Ik ga bij het begin beginnen en dat betekent dat ik niet heel ver zal komen binnen het bestek van een hoofdstuk binnen een Festschrift. Aan een antwoord op de prangende vragen die deze problematiek oproept komt deze bijdrage niet toe, en het lijkt erop dat die antwoorden ook niet zomaar van achter de tekentafel gegeven kunnen worden. Het gaat erom de gedachten te bepalen, en daarbij is een goed begin is van groot belang. Het vervolg is deels al verwerkt in ander werk …


Controlling Security In A Culture Of Fear, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2009

Controlling Security In A Culture Of Fear, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

Who controls security in a culture of fear? The erosion of traditional safeguards in the quest for security raises questions about the meaning of justice, public protection, legal safeguards and resilience. The book presents a cross-disciplinary exchange on the notion of fear and its influence on international criminal, economic and security policy. The authors chart new lines of research as they proffer a variety of perspectives on the problems and trends that are emerging from national and international responses to insecurity. The diversity of the views expressed in this volume underscores the complexities of assuring security in a world beset …


Straf(Begrip) En Procesbeginsel. (Meaning And Concept Of Punishment And The Principle Of Trial Before Punishment), Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2002

Straf(Begrip) En Procesbeginsel. (Meaning And Concept Of Punishment And The Principle Of Trial Before Punishment), Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

Deze dissertatie gaat in op de consensuele - althans buitengerechtelijke - afdoening van strafzaken als instrument voor het terugdringen van het tekort in de rechtshandhaving. De vraag is of, en zo ja in hoeverre consensuele punitieve rechtshandhaving een bijdrage kan leveren aan het terugdringen van dit tekort. Deze vraag vormt de aanleiding tot een grondslagenonderzoek naar straf en strafbegrip en naar de relatie met het procesbeginsel. Straf en strafbegrip worden benaderd vanuit rechtshistorisch en rechtsantropologisch perspectief en vergeleken met de punitieve rechtshandhaving in de Oudgermaanse niet-statelijke samenleving. De rode draad vormt een aan Glastra van Loon ontleend rechtsnormbegrip dat - …