Douwe Korff
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Douwe Korff has been professor of international law at London Metropolitan University since 2002. He is a Dutch comparative and international lawyer, specialising in human rights and data protection. In the 1970s, he graduated from the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In the 1980s, he carried out human rights research at the Max Planck Institutes for comparative and international criminal law and for comparative and international public law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg, Germany. In the '90s, he taught international law and human rights at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and the European Convention on Human Rights at the University of Essex, UK. In 2006, he was visiting professor at the Law faculty of the University of Rijeka, Croatia.
In the last ten years, he has carried out four major studies for the European Union's Directorate-General on the Internal Market, relating to the implementation of EC Directives harmonising data protection law in the EU and the EEA, and was involved in two studies for the UK Information Commissioner. He has been cited as an expert in discussion of data protection policy.[1][2] He is a member of the advisory council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR),[3] a leading UK think-tank on IT policy.[4]
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- ^ "Police decryption powers 'flawed'", BBC News Online, 2006-08-15. Retrieved on 2007-11-11. "Professor Douwe Korff, said there was a real question as to whether the powers undermined the presumption of innocence that human rights legislation enshrines."
- ^ "Data proposal prompts legal warning", KableNet, 2006-08-25. Retrieved on 2007-11-11.
- ^ FIPR People. Foundation for Information Policy Research. Retrieved on 2007-11-10. “Advisory Council[,] Douwe Korff[,] Human Rights Lawyer”
- ^ FIPR - About. Foundation for Information Policy Research. Retrieved on 2007-11-10.
