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 Gauci is a graduate from the University of Malta and his primary areas of practice embrace ICT, e commerce, media law, i-gaming, data protection and competition law. He has handled complex, multi-jurisdictional cases involving a broad array of agreements, including software and hardware, roaming, interconnection, Local Loop Unbundling and wholesale access agreements. He is a contributor to a number of trade publications and has co-authored the Maltese Electronic Communications Framework. Prior to joining the firm, Ian has held the position of regulatory and legal advisor for the Malta Communications Authority, and presently he is the legal and regulatory advisor of a prominent local mobile operator and the fixed incumbent who is a quad play operator and advises the operators on all issues dealing with regulators compliance, data protection, spectrum related issues, IPR and IT. He s also the legal and regulatory advisor of the local provider of Digital audio Broadcasting Services and also assisted Government on issues dealing with E Commerce and E Trust certification.

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) where she teaches commercial law and conflict of laws. 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. In 2008 her monograph Electronic Commerce and International Private Law, A Study of Electronic Consumer Contracts was published by Ashgate, Aldershot.

Peter Gillies (MA, LLM (Sydney), PhD (NSW); Solicitor, New South Wales) is a Professor and the Director of Postgraduate Studies (Coursework), Law Division at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of numerous books and papers in the fields of international trade law, commercial law, environmental taxation, criminal law and evidence. His most recent book is (with Gabriel Moens), International Trade: Law, Business and Ethics, 2nd edn, Routledge-Cavendish, Oxon, 2006. Editor of the Macquarie Journal of Business Law.

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.

Reinhard Steennot is a Professor at the Financial Law Institute, Ghent University. Prof. (Dr.) 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).