New Paper: Officer Attitudes Towards Body-Worn Camera Activation

A pre-press draft of a new paper I’ve written with Ruben Greidanus is now available on ResearchGate and SSRN. The paper is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review’s 2017-18 symposium issue. We would appreciate any feedback. The abstract: In the past few years, questions about when police officers should activate (or not activate) their…Continue Reading New Paper: Officer Attitudes Towards Body-Worn Camera Activation

New Book: Privacy in Public Space

I’m very happy to announce that a new book I’ve co-edited with Tjerk Timan (TNO) and Bert-Jaap Koops (TILT) is now available for pre-order via Edward Elgar’s website or Amazon. The book, Privacy in Public Space: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges, will be out in November, and is being published as part of the Elgar Law, Technology…Continue Reading New Book: Privacy in Public Space

New Paper: Visual Surveillance and Voyeurism in Criminal Law

A new paper I’ve written with colleagues at Tilburg University and Melbourne Law School has just been accepted to Law & Social Inquiry. We expect publication in mid-2018. Information below: The Reasonableness of Remaining Unobserved: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Surveillance and Voyeurism in Criminal Law Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, Andrew Roberts, Ivan Škorvánek, and…Continue Reading New Paper: Visual Surveillance and Voyeurism in Criminal Law

New Paper: Sensors, Cameras, and the New ‘Normal’ in Clandestine Migration

This paper presents findings from an exploratory qualitative study of the experiences and perceptions of undocumented (irregular) migrants to the United States with various forms of surveillance in the borderlands between the U.S. and Mexico. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in a migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico, we find that migrants generally have a fairly…Continue Reading New Paper: Sensors, Cameras, and the New ‘Normal’ in Clandestine Migration

Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) Europe 2017 – Agenda

As co-chair of the 2017 PLSC-Europe conference, which is taking place as part of the TILTing Perspectives 2017 conference at Tilburg University, I am very happy to announce the final workshop agenda (click here for a PDF: PLSC-Europe 2017 Agenda). We have 12 great papers to workshop this year, and more than 80 participants. For more…Continue Reading Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) Europe 2017 – Agenda

New Paper: “A Typology of Privacy” is now online

For the (open access) version of record, go to http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1938&context=jil Citation: Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, Ivan Škorvánek, Tomislav Chokrevski, and Maša Galič, “A Typology of Privacy.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 38(2): 483-575….Continue Reading New Paper: “A Typology of Privacy” is now online

Joining the iSchool at the University of Kentucky

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science (part of the College of Communication and Information – the UK iSchool) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2017. I’ll be part of the School’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) program (offering BS/BA and MS degrees). The iSchool also houses a…Continue Reading Joining the iSchool at the University of Kentucky