Full name:

Title(s)

Nationality:

Hans Franken

Professor, LLM, Ph.D.

Dutch

Job(s)

Employer/field of work:

Leiden University

Current job(s):

  • Professor of ICT law
  • Member of the Upper House of the States General

Previous job(s):

  • Professor of Jurisprudence at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University
  • Member of the Council of State
  • Judge in the courts at Rotterdam

Secondary job(s):

  • Chairman of various disciplinary committees
  • Member of the supervisory board of an insurance company
  • Member of the supervisory board of various social organizations

Previous secondary job(s):

  • Crown-appointed member of the Social and Economic Council (SER) (1992-2004)
  • Chairman of the commission on fundamental rights in the digital era (2000)
  • Chairman of the commission on computer criminality (1987)
  • Chairman of the investigative commission on information technology and the law (1994-2002)
Publications
  • InLeiden tot de rechtswetenschap (1982-2003) 10 editions
  • Onafhankelijk en verantwoordelijk (1997)
  • Nemo Plus (2001)
  • Recht en Computer (5 editions since 1992, 6th edition in preparation)
  • More than 350 articles about the theory of law, and ICT and the law
Languages

Dutch:

English:

German:

French:

Native language

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