WP 14 : Securitization, Liberty and Law

This section's articles

• Data surveillance and border control in the EU: Balancing efficiency and legal protection of third country nationals

  14 June 2005, by Brouwer Evelien
  Different mechanisms of data sharing and data collection have been developed with the purpose of controlling immigration and safeguarding security, such as Eurodac and Europol. At the EU level, different proposals are being negotiated on the extended use of the SIS, the establishment of a new Visa Information System, the use and storage of biometrical data, and the possibility to interconnect the different EU databases. In the light of these developments, two questions are becoming more and more important. Firstly, how do the EU policy makers, drafting these plans, assess the efficiency and added value of these data surveillance mechanisms? Secondly, is the legal protection of individuals stored into these database sufficiently taken into account in the decision making process?

• Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based society

  2 March 2005, by Brouwer Evelien, Guild Elspeth
  This work package has as its objective to examine the law of citizenship and governance from the perspective of civil liberties and security. It engages the question of legal mechanisms of constitutionalism which set the boundaries of citizen and foreigner. Central to this analysis are the issues of separation of status in criminal law, legal structures of separation, social protection as a form of separation and the internal external dimensions of civil liberties.

• Securitization, Liberty, Law

  30 November 2004, by Guild Elspeth
  This work package has as its objective to examine the law of citizenship and governance from the perspective of civil liberties and security. It will engage the question of legal mechanisms of constitutionalism which set the boundaries of citizen and foreigner. Central to this analysis will be the issues of separation of status in criminal law, legal structures of separation, social protection as a form of separation and the internal external dimensions of civil liberties. It will be undertaken in four parts.