Joris van Hoboken is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam and a Professor of Law at Brussels School of Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), where he is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS).  

Joris works on questions related to law and digital infrastructure, including at the intersection of fundamental rights protection (data privacy, freedom of expression, non-discrimination) and the governance of platforms and internet-based services. He is currently leading a new research group on the law and governance of quantum technologies (Quantum Delta NL), the DSA Observatory project, is a contributor to the Algosoc consortium, and is co-leading the Digital Transformation of Decision Making initiative at the Amsterdam Law School (part of the Netherlands Sectorplan Digital Legal Studies). 

Previously, Joris was appointed (part-time) to the Chair ‘Fundamental Rights and Digital Transformation’ at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (until Sept 2022), a chair established at the VUB with the support of Microsoft. From 2013-2016, Joris was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Information Law Institute (ILI) at New York University, School of Law, a Visiting Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Business & Human Rights (2015-2016) and a lecturer at CornellTech (2016). From 2016-2017, he was an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet & Society (CIS), Stanford Law School. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.