Prof Steve Saxby. (BA, Cert.Ed., MBCS, PhD, Solicitor) (BA, Cert.Ed., MBCS, PhD, Solicitor) University of Southampton (for Selection of Papers for CLSR) Editor: The Computer Law and Security Review - The International Journal of Technology Law and Practice (Elsevier) www.elsevier.com/locate/clsr and The Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law (Sweet and Maxwell). Stephen Saxby is Professor of IT Law and Public Policy at Southampton and Deputy Head of School (Research). He specialises in eGovernment, public information and geospatial policy in the UK.

Prof. R. (Richard) V. De Mulder (1946) holds the chair of Computers and Law at the faculty of law, Erasmus University of law. He is the director of the Erasmus University research programme "Safety and Monitoring" which is part of the national research school "Safety and Security in Society" (onderzoeksschool maatschappelijke veiligheid, OMV). Richard De Mulder has a special interest in jurimetrical research and the application of new technology, especially for monitoring and safety.

Nikolaus Forgó Professor of Law, Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany); Head of the LLM-programs on ICT-Law in Hannover and at the University of Vienna.

Ian Lloyd was educated at the Universities of Strathclyde and Exeter. Following an initial appointment as Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Ian joined the staff of the Law School in 1979 and is currently Professor of Information Technology Law. Ian Lloyd has published widely on various topics relating to the use and misuse of information technology and is the author of two of the leading textbooks on the subject.

He is also managing editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology published by Oxford University Press and joint editor of the electronic Journal of Information, Law and Technology.

Ian has been grant holder for a number of externally funded research projects, including four funded under European Union programmes such as ESPRIT and Telematics Applications. Other projects have been funded by the British Library, HEFCE and the ESRC. Ian is also a member of the European Commissions Legal Advisory Board, a body of experts which is required to be consulted on all legislative proposals relating to the information market.

Dr Lorna Gillies is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Leicester ( http://www.le.ac.uk/law/staff/leg4/index.html). She is also a non-practising Scottish solicitor. Her research interests are firstly in conflict of laws/international private law (particularly commercial conflicts) and secondly electronic commerce and consumer law. Her recent publications include: Electronic Commerce and International Private Law, A Study of Electronic Consumer Contracts, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008 and “Addressing the Cyberspace Fallacy‘: Targeting the Jurisdiction of an Electronic Consumer Contract,” International Journal of Law and Information Technology Issue 2, 2008

Serge Gutwirth is a professor of human rights, legal theory, comparative law and legal research at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel(VUB), where he studied law, criminology and also obtained a post-graduate degree in technology and science studies. He also holds a part-time position of lecturer at the Faculty of law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he teaches philosophy of law. Since October 2003 Gutwirth is holder of a 10 year research fellowship in the framework of the VUB-Research contingent for his project 'Sciences and the democratic constitutional state: a mutual transformation process'. Gutwirth founded and still chairs the VUB-Research group Law Science Technology & Society (http://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS). He publishes widely in Dutch French and English. Currently, Serge Gutwirth is particularly interested both in technical legal issues raised by technology (particularly in the field of data protection and privacy) and in more generic issues related to the articulation of law, sciences, technologies and societies.

Dr. Gregory C. Mosier is Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests include technology and law and international business. Prior to his current position he served as Regents Service and Puterbaugh Professor of Legal Studies in Business in the Williams S. Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Mosier is the author or co-author of numerous academic and commercial publications and a recipient of the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. He has been honored with the School's Outstanding Teaching Award and the University Extension Faculty Excellence Award. The MBA Student Association named him Professor of the Year in 2003, and he was recognized as the Outstanding MBA Faculty member for 1999. Mosier served as president of the Rocky Mountain Academy of Legal Studies in Business from 2002-03 and was president of the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business from 1993-94. Mosier also served in various administrative capacities while at OSU. He was administrative committee chair for the Master of Science in Telecommunication Management Program. From 1997 -2004, Mosier was academic program chair for the MBA program offered by National Technological University. Mosier received a bachelor of science in 1978 from OSU, a juris doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1981 and an Ed.D. in higher education administration from OSU in 1986. Prior to joining the OSU faculty, he was a corporate attorney in Odessa and Houston, Texas with Parker Drilling Company. Mosier is a member of the State Bars of Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Dr. Yves Poullet. Ph.D. in Law and graduated in Philosophy, is professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur and Liège, Belgium (FUNDP & Ulg) and Dean of the Faculty of Law in Namur. Yves Poullet heads the CRID, since its creation in 1979. He conducts various researches in the field of new technology with a special emphasis on privacy issues and individual and public freedom in the Information Society. He is one of the legal experts at the UNESCO and the European Council. He was also member (1992-2004) of the Belgian Commission on Data Protection (Commission belgede protection de la vie privée) in charge of the sector of telecommunications and of the Working Group on Telecommunications and Media (International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners). In addition, he is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of European Commission and the president of the Task Force "Electronic Democracy and Access to public records". He also chaired the Belgian Computer Association ABDI (Association Belge de Droit de 'Informatique). Yves Poullet is an active member of the Editorial Board of various famous law reviews. He is a founder of the European Telecommunication Forum, ECLIP and FIRILITE.

Dan Svantesson is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Bond University (Gold Coast, Australia). Having finished a Bachelor and a Master of Jurisprudence at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), he came to Australia in 1999. After studying Alternative Dispute Resolution and being introduced to the common law system, at University of Western Sydney, he completed a Master of Laws (International Law) at University of New South Wales (UNSW). In 2004, he finished his PhD thesis titled 'Private international law and the Internet', at UNSW. An amended version of the thesis was published in 2007 by Kluwer Law International.

In addition to his work at Bond University, he is a Research Associate at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre and the Vice Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation. Further, he is a member of the editorial board for the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (Czech Republic) and the Computer Law and Security Review, as well as a Contributing Editor of the World Legal Information Institute (www.worldlii.org)

Dan specialises in international aspects of the IT society, an area within which he has published a range of articles and given presentations in Australia, Asia and Europe. Finally, he has been given several awards including Professor Anastasios Dontas Travelling Fellowship (2002) and David J Teece - AustLEA Scholarship in Law and Economics (2002)."

Tim Vollans is Principal Lecturer at Coventry Law School, Coventry University, England. He obtained his qualifying LLB law degree (with Honors) from Leeds University (UK), and subsequently qualified and practised as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, specializing in high value commercial and fiscal transactions. Retirement from practice enabled him to join Coventry University as a Senior Lecturer and to pursue his research interests at Birmingham University (UK) where he was awarded a LLM (by Research). Tim is a Register Practitioner in Higher Education (UK) and currently leads Coventry Law School’s new LLM in International Business Law and teaches on professionally accredited law and accountancy degrees. In addition, he undertakes advisory, moderation, and examining activities with a number of major organizations. Over the last 25 years he has published extensively in the professional and academic press.