The Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has appointed Prof. Mireille van Eechoud, professor of Information Law, as dean of the Amsterdam Law School as of 1 January 2025. The appointment is for a period of four years. Van Eechoud has been in the position of dean on a temporary basis since 1 January this year.
The IViR congratulates Mireille on this beautiful step! We know her not only as a brilliant scientist (whom we will miss in the coming years) but also as an excellent administrator. We are confident that the faculty will be in good hands with Mireille in the coming years, and wish her every success!
About Van Eechoud
Mireille has been with IViR since 1996, from 2012 as professor of Information Law. Until September 2019, she was program director of the Master of Information Law, and then served as the director of the Amsterdam Graduate School of Law. She also served, among other positions, as chair of the University Research Committee (UOC), which advises the Executive Board on research policy.
Mireille also holds a number of advisory and board positions outside IViR. Among others, she is the chair of the Copyright Commission (a statutory advisory board of the Ministry of Justice and Security), chairwomen of the board of the Association for Copyright Law, elected member of the European Copyright Society and member of the editorial board of Intellectual Property and Advertising Law. She was previously a member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
In her research, Van Eechoud focuses on, among other things, the regulation of open data and public information sources from the perspective of transparency, innovation and fundamental communication rights; international and European intellectual property law (in particular copyright and database law); and international private law aspects of information law.