 Corien Prins holds a degree in law as well as in Slavic languages and literature from Leiden
University. In 1986, she started working as a researcher with the Department of Law and
Informatics, Leiden University. In 1990, she defended in Leiden her doctoral thesis on
computer program protection in the USSR (The Hague/Boston: Kluwer Law International,
1990). She continued her research with the Documentation Office for Central and East
European Law at Leiden University. In 1993, she was a visiting professor at Hastings Law
School, University of California, San Francisco, where she gave lectures on information
technology law in the European Union.
In 1994, she was appointed Professor of Law and Informatization at Tilburg University. Here
she heads the legal department of the Center for Law, Public Administration and
Informatization. She is a member of the programme commission of the National Programme
on Information Technology and Law (ITeR) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO). As of 1 September 2001, she has been a board member of the section on
Societal Research (‘Maatschappij en Gedragswetenschappen – MaGW’) of the NWO. Corien
Prins is co-editor-in-chief of The Electronic Communication Law Review (published by
Kluwer Law International), co-editor-in-chief of the loose-leaf International Computer Law
(published by Matthew Bender), chief editor of the Dutch publication Handboek
Informatietechnologie (The Hague: Sdu) and a member of the editorial boards of other
journals. She is also a member of the board of the Netherlands Association for Law and
Information Technology. In Tilburg, Professor Prins teaches information technology law and
comparative law on electronic commerce. Her present research topics include (international)
regulatory questions concerning ICT, e-government issues, anonymity and privacy in relation
to electronic commerce.
Correspondence address: Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatization, Tilburg
University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected];
web site: http://rechten.uvt.nl/prins.
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