Angela Adrian., (BBA , Schiller, London; MIM , Schiller, London, Juris Doctorate, Loyola, Louisiana); LL.M. , Aberdeen; Attorney, State of Louisiana, U.S. District Court for Louisiana ; Solicitor, England and Wales ) is a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University. She is also the General Editor of the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy which is a forum for current issues in all aspects of international trade.

Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas (PhD cand, MRes (EUI), JSM (Stanford), LLM (Columbia), MPhil (LSE), BA, LLB (Granada)Barrister & Solicitor (Madrid)Lecturer in International Economic Law and EU Law) is Deputy Director of Graduate Studies, Queen Mary University of London. Rafael has acted as a consultant to the World Trade Organization's legal affairs division, has served in the United States Court of International Trade (Chambers of Judge Pogue), and has clerked at the European Court of Justice (Chambers of Advocate-General Kokott) as well as the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Chambers of Judge Lindh).

 

Roger Baker., LLM (Strathclyde), FBCS, ACIB, BA.Econ hons, has a career spanning banking & insurance IT systems development, IT management and consultancy, and in recent years financial services regulation and IT Law. A former advisor to UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science & Technology, he established the British Computer Society’s Financial Services Specialist Group, and has contributed to the Society’s publications on Offshore Outsourcing, e-Commerce, the Euro, Year 2000 and Data Protection.

Fernando Barrio., Director Policy and Government Affairs at BFSG International Consulting
Member of the Advisory Board at Alfa-Redi
Senior Lecturer in Business Law at London Metropolitan University

Prof. Dr. (Juris) Jon Bing. Institute leader of the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, the second oldest academic institution in the world working specifically with the interrelationship of law and information / communication technology; Dr. Bing is the recipient of numerous international awards. He is the Editor of the news-letter Lov&data (Norwegian news-letter on computers and law, published by the Lawdata foundation) and is an editorial board member of over 16 international journals.

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.













Jos Dumortier  graduated in Law at K.U.Leuven (1973). After postgraduate studies in Nancy (Centre Européen Universitaire, 1974) and Heidelberg (DAAD, 1975), he became research fellow at K.U.Leuven. In 1981 he finished his Ph.D. in Law with a dissertation on Private International Conflicts of Law. From 1981 to 1992 he worked part-time as a lawyer in a large Brussels law office.  In 1985 he became a part-time lecturer and in 1993 a full-time Professor in Law and IT at K.U.Leuven. In 1990 he co-founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology and was the Centre’s first Director. From 1991 to present he has been active in lecturing, research and consultancy in the area of Law and ICT, and he has published several books and articles on this subject. Prof. Dumortier is the editor of the International Encyclopedia of Cyberlaw (Kluwer International Publishers) and editorial board member of many other specialized publications. Prof. Dumortier is regularly working as an expert for the Belgian federal government, the Flemish government, the European Commission and several national and international organisations on issues relating to Law and ICT. Since 1 June 2004 Prof. Dumortier works part-time for the Brussels law firm LAWFORT (http://www.lawfort.be).

 

 

 

 

Paul De Hert  holds the chair of ‘human rights’, ‘legal theory’, ‘(European) (and Constitutional) Criminal Law’ at the Free University of Brussels. He is the Director of the VUB-Research group on human rights (HUMR) and core member of the VUB-Research group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) which is devoted to the research subjects linked to the topic of his fellowship, i.e. sciences and technology in a democratic constitutional state.At Tilburg he holds a position as an associated-professor in the internationally renowned Tilburg Institute of Law and Technology at Tilburg University (TILT). Paul is an international expert with regard to e-justice, viz. issues related to justice and home affairs at the European (e-) level with an technological (electronic) (-e) component: biometrics, interoperability, international criminal records, Schengen, Prüm, availability, human rights and evidence and intelligence sharing. He is involved in national and international legal or multidisciplinary projects about issues such as ambient intelligence, identity, service platforms, profiling, data protection, intellectual property rights, e-publishing etc.

Prof. dr. mr J.H.A.M. Grijpink  (1946) studied Economics (1969) and Law (1971) at Groningen University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 at the Technical University Eindhoven for his thesis Chain-computerisation. He is Principal Advisor at the Strategy Development Department of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Professor of Information Science at Utrecht University. He is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and Registered Information Expert (RI).

Prof. Willem Grosheide teaches law at the University of Utrecht as full professor in the field of private law and intellectual property law. He is Chairman of the Centre of Intellectual Property Law (Molengraaff Institute UU) and Director of several post graduate courses on behalf of judges, members of the bar and other practitioners in the Netherlands and abroad.

 

TER Kah Leng  LL.M Bristol, Barrister-at-Law, Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore,  is an  Associate Professor at the  NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, where she teaches Business Law in the MBA and Executive MBA programmes. Her interests include e commerce law, commercial contracts and professional negligence, areas in which she has published numerous articles both internationally and regionally. She was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada and at IALS, University of London. She is also a member of the correspondence panel of the Computer Law and Security Report (Elsevier).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Juliet Moringiello is a Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, her J.D. from Fordham University, and an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University. At Widener, she teaches in the areas of Commercial Law, Bankruptcy, Electronic Commerce and Property. Professor Moringiello is an elected member of the American Law Institute, an active member of the Cyberspace Law Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section and is the editor of the annual Survey of Cyberspace Law, published in The Business Lawyer. Her recent articles include “Electronic Contracting Cases 2006-2007” (with William L. Reynolds, forthcoming in The Business Lawyer), and “False Categories in Commercial Law: The (Ir)relevance of (In)tangibility” (forthcoming in the Florida State University Law Review).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Prof Sanette Nel (BLC LLB, University of Pretoria) and (LLM and LLD, University of South Africa) is Professor of Law at the University of South Africa. She has been teaching law for the past 21 years, more specifically Communication Law, Media law, Internet law and Medical Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and has practiced as an attorney until 2004. She is a member of the Unit for Medicine and Law and Co-director of the Certificate course in Medicine and Law. She has published numerous articles and delivered various papers on a wide range of topics – her research interests include Media Law, Internet Law, Medical Law and Environmental Law. She is one of the co-authors of the book Cyberlaw@SA:The Law of the Internet in South Africa. She has acted as assessor in a number of murder trials. As senior researcher she was involved with the research project for the compilation of a legal dictionary by the Centre for Legal Terminology in African languages and for a number of years she was involved with projects by the Centre for Women’s Studies.

















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.

 

 

Kevin Rogers LLB LLM, is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Hertfordshire. He lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, specifically on E-Commerce Law and data protection issues, as well as Company Law and Commercial Law.
He also co-edits the Hertfordshire Law Journal, which encourages critical contributions that consider international commercial law in its various contexts, across the full spectrum of public and private international law, international trade, cyber law (including e-contracts, e-finance, e-crime and data protection) as well as the wider commercial concerns. Kevin is on the executive committee for BILETA (British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association).

 

Prof. dr. Ahti Saarenpää studied law at the University of Helsinki ( kand.jur 1970, lic.jur  1973 ). Since 1981 he is professor at the University of Lapland where he teaches legal informatics, law of personality and law of inheritance. He has been the Dean of the faculty of Law and he is director of the Institute for Law and Informatics.
Saarenpää is author of books and articles on private law, legal informatics and legal theory. He is member of the European Union, DG XIII, Legal Advisory Board (LAB),  member of The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Section of the Humanities and member of IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group 8.5.

 

Steve Saxby. Prof Steve Saxby. (BA, Cert.Ed., MBCS, PhD, Solicitor) University of Southampton (for Selection of Papers for CLSR) Editor: The Computer Law and Security Report (Elsevier) www.compseconline.com 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.

 

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John Selby is a Lecturer at the Division of Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia

 

 

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Reinhard Steennot obtained his law degree in 1998 and immediately joined the Financial Law Institute at the Ghent University (Belgium) as a full time researcher, sponsored by the Fund for Scientific Research.
Reinhard Steennot wrote a doctoral thesis on the legal aspects of electronic payment systems (2002), entitled: “Elektronisch betalingsverkeer: een toepassing van de klassieke principes”. In October 2003 he became professor at the Ghent University. Since then he teaches several courses, all relating to financial law and consumer law.
The research of Reinhard Steennot focuses mainly on issues of private banking law, consumer protection and electronic commerce. He is the author of several books (e.g. Financiële diensten op afstand) and many articles (mainly in Dutch). Other articles include: "The Single Payment Area", Journal of international banking law and regulation 2003, 481-487 and "Consumer protection relating to contracts concluded online: the European point of view", in Texas Consumer Law Journal 2005, 20-28.

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Dr. Rebecca Wong (PhD on Data Protection Law in the Online Age , University of Sheffield) is A Senior Lecturer at the Nottingham Trent University. She assisted with a European Commission project, PRIVIREAL in connection with data protection and the implications on research ethics committees. She taught contract law, ICT and Law, English legal systems at the University of Sheffield prior to her appointment at Nottingham Trent University (2006). Her interests include data protection, electronic commerce and intellectual property. Her recent publications include “Privacy: charting its developments and prospects” in Human Rights in the Digital Age edited by Klang and Murray (2005) and “Data Protection: alternative approaches to sensitive data” (2007) Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology. She is Guest Editor of a special issue on Identity, privacy and new technologies in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

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