Research Center on IT and Law

The Research Centre on IT and Law (Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit – CRID) has been created in 1979 by the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Namur. Its main mission is the encouragement of interdisciplinary academic reflection on the legal and economic (but also technological and sociological) aspects of information and communications technologies. Based on its research activities, CRID is also active in teaching.

Currently, CRID counts some forty researchers, including six professors. Like the Internet it is so concerned with, the CRID has woven a web of connections around the world by integrating within numerous university consortia, both at the European (ECLIP, EULISP) and international levels (CLIP : Fordham University, CRDP, Montréal, ...).

In reply to questions raised by its partners, and in respect of its “Charter for Research Contract with CRID”, the centre has been led to inquire deeply into issues, which are fundamental for the future of our society and its citizens as well as for enterprises. In this way, CRID has carried out research on behalf of Belgian Parliaments and Governments, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the UNESCO, private and public undertakings, administrations,….

 
At a time when the emergence of the Internet and of e-commerce are profoundly transforming our way of life, the CRID, together with other research centres in Namur and the Institute of Informatics, aims to provide multi-disciplinary answers to the numerous questions raised by such turbulent change.