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Organizing Committee

 

Conference Chairman: Sylvia M. Kierkegaard

 

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Sylvia Mercado Kierkegaard is a Professor (PHD Supervisor) at the Communications Universityof China  (Beijing, Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton (England) and will be a Visiting Professor at Renmin University (Bejing). She has authored over 2000 articles, which have appeared in leading journals, books, newspapers and magazines. She is  the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology (JICLT),  the International Journal of Private Law (Inderscience) and the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry. She is an Associate Editor, Managing Editor and member of the editorial board of over 25 international journals. She is a regulatory expert for the Council of Europe and an EU legal expert on information society. She is listed as a global expert resource person on cyberlaw and a member of several working groups and committes involved in the study of proposals for revisions or recommendations of legislations. She is a recipient of three international journalism awards and is currently president of the International Association of IT Lawyers (www.iaitl.org).

 

 

 

 

Local Programme Organiser: Jose R. Agustina

 

 

José R. Agustina (J.D. Degree in Law and Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Criminology, Pompeu Fabra University). Associated Director of the Center for Advanced Social Studies and Professor in Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Policy at International University of Catalonia (Barcelona). Among his research priorities he is focused on strategies for crime prevention within a company and organizational settings. Visiting Scholar at Cambridge Institute of Criminology (2007), Pace Law School (2008), and Rutgers University (2009), he has authored articles and books on different issues related to IT and crime prevention (http://www.uic.es/en/personal-page?id_user=jragustina). Besides that he is conducting research on family violence and other criminological and criminal policy issues. He is the editor-in-chief of the 'Actualidad Criminológica y Penal’ Collection with BdeF-Edisofer.