Douwe Korff has been professor of international law at London Metropolitan University since 2002. The London Metropolitan University, sometimes referred to as London Met or LMU, located in London, England, was formed on 1 August He is a Dutch comparative and international lawyer, specialising in human rights and data protection. Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled Data privacy is the relationship between collection and dissemination of Data, Technology, the public Expectation of privacy, and the Legal issues In the 1970s, he graduated from the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The VU University Amsterdam (in Dutch Vrije Universiteit, literal translation is "Free University" is a University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands The European University Institute (EUI in Florence ( Italy) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research 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. The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e 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. Universiteit Maastricht (abbreviation UM (or in the English language Maastricht University founded in 1976, is the second youngest university in the The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (also called the "European Convention on Human Rights" and "ECHR" was adopted under the The University of Essex is a British Campus university located near the town of Colchester, England In 2006, he was visiting professor at the Law faculty of the University of Rijeka, Croatia. The University of Rijeka ( Croatian Sveučilište u Rijeci) is situated in the city of Rijeka with faculties also located in cities throughout the regions
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. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO in the United Kingdom, is a Non-departmental public body which reports directly to Parliament and is sponsored 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. The Foundation for Information Policy Research is a UK -based Think tank that studies the interaction between information technology and government business and [4]