Professor Dr. Jos Dumortier. Professor in ICT Law at the University of Leuven, Belgium and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology (ICRI) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. 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.
Dr. Reinhard Posch. Chief Information Officer, Federal Ministry for Public Services & Sports, Federal Government Austria. He is also the head of the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications Technology at the Graz University of Technology.
Marc Rotenberg. Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center; Chair of Public Interest Registry; Advisory Panelist for OECD, UNESCO and ITU; Chairman of the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection.
Jürgen H. Gangoly. Internet Ombudsman, Austria. Vice President , Austrian Institute for Applied Telecommunications; OEIAT Project Director, Austrian e-Commerce Trust Seal (Hon).
Professor Anja Oskamp. Computer/Law Institute, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit
de Boelelaan , Amsterdam.
Professor Yves Poullet. The Faculty of Law; Director of the Research Centre for Computer and law, University of Namur Belgium.
Professor Dr. Thomas Hoeren. The Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht University of Münster.
Professor Dr. Herbert Burkert. Research Center for Information Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Professor Dr. Steve Saxby. 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).
Dr.Sol Bermann,Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University; Managing Editor, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society; Co-Chair of the Supreme Court of Ohio's Advisory Committee on Technology and the Courts Privacy& Public Access Subcommittee.
Professor Dr. Jan Grijpink. Principal Advisor of the Strategy Development Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice. He was appointed professor of information science at Utrecht University in March 2004 and he combines his task at the Ministry with teaching and research on Chain-computerisation within a constitutional state.
Michel Frenkiel. EU coordinator on projects in IT Security for the European Commission; Coordinator of the eJustice Project.
Professor 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; Prof. Dr. Bing is the recipient of numerous international awards and seats in the Committee and Board of various organisations.
Professor Michael A. Geist. Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.
Stephen Mason. Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies; General Editor, e-Signature Law Journal. He is a member of the IT Panel of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales, the correspondents Panel Computer Law and Security Report, the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, the Society of Authors and the Society for Computers and Law.
Professor Dr. Peter Seipel. Dean of the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University Member of the European Union, DG XIII, Legal Advisory Board (LAB) since July 1994; Chairman of the Board of the Swedish Foundation for Legal Information since its creation in 1989; Vice chairman of the Information Technology Commission of the Swedish Government; Director and co-founder of the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University.
Professor Dr. Peggy Valke. Postdoctoral researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) and lectures media law in the postgraduate programme "Intellectual Property" at the K.U.Brussel. She is currently a member of the European Focus Groups for the revision of the Television without Frontiers Directive and of the Belgian Advisory Committee for Telecommunications (Raadgevend Comité voor de Telecommunicatie). Since January 2005 she has been working as an expert for the Flemish minister for Media. She has also joined OfcomWatch, an informal group blog commenting on the processes and practices of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and related media and communications regulation issues both in the United Kingdom and around the world.
Professor Dr. John Zeleznikow. Victoria University, Australia. He has written over 150 peer-reviewed articles and two books: Building Intelligent Legal Information Systems: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Law and Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases. He has been active in building legal decision support systems for legal aid organisations. His research interests include Decision and Negotiation Support Systems, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Discovery from Databases.
Niels Bo Jørgensen. Attorney-at-Law; partner. JOHAN SCHLÜTER law firm. Head of the Secretariat for the Association of Danish Internet Media, FDIM, and external associate professor in "International E-Commerce" at the Technical University of Denmark, DTU.Areas of practice: Consulting services in relation to intellectual property law.
Professor Alain Strowel. St. Louis College, University of Liege, (Brussels, Belgium) where he teaches copyright and design law. Alain Strowel is a lawyer at Covington and Burling concentrating in intellectual property and computer law. On top of the work that Alain is doing for various clients in the IT sector, including the Business Software Alliance, he regularly advises pharmaceutical companies on patent infringement, IP enforcement and parallel trade issues. Alain is a panellist for the WIPO domain name resolution procedure.
Professor Dr. Zhang Chu. Dean of Department of Science and Technology, China University of Politics and Law (CUPL); founder and chair of Center for IP Research of CUPL; Director of Center for Legal Information of CUPL.Professor Zhang specializes in intellectual property law, e-commerce law, information & technology law and the issues of information securities. As a visiting scholar, he studied in Columbia Law School in 1998. Since 2001, he has been invited as the special member of IT & High Tech Sub-committee of Chinese Bar Ass. Furthermore, appointed by Chinese Ministry of Justice, he is a member of Legal Lecturers for Chinese high rank officials.
Lilian Edwards. Co-Director AHRC Centre University of Edinburgh. Lilian Edwards’ research interests lie in two main areas, Scottish family law and the interaction of law and computers. She has published widely in the field of artificial intelligence and law, and built several practical legal expert systems. Currently she is analysing the impact of the Internet on substantive law and has been working in e-privacy for several years and recently won the Wellbury Prize for work in this area. She is also researching in computer security and cybercrime. Her secondary research interest is in Scottish family law, especially in relation to children. She also maintains an interest in the international private law aspects of family law; trusts and succession; medico-legal problems in relation to reproduction; and feminist theory.
Professor Giovanni Sartor. Director of Masters Program in Computer and law at the University of Bologna. He is also the Coordinator of the PHD program in computers and law . Furthermore, he is a lecturer on computers & law at the European Master in Legal Theory, organised by the European Academy of Legal Theory (Université Saint Louis and Katolieke Universiteit of Brussells). He is editor of Artificial intelligence and law (Kluwer: Dordrecht)1989. He received his PHD from the European University Institute. Florence (Special mention).His main research interests are: Legal reasoning and legal argumentation; computer law, multi-agent systems, logic and logic programming, legislation technique, Artificial Intelligence Law, and nonmonotic and defeasible reasoning.
Professor Dr. iur. Peter Mankowski. University of Hamburg.
http://www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/personen/mankowski/
Professor Dr. Chris Reed. Professor of Electronic Commerce Law. Dean of the Faculty of Law & Social Science. Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of LondonHe has published widely on many aspects of computer and telecommunications law and is Managing Editor of the OUP International Journal of Law and Information Technology. Chris is the editor and part author of Computer Law (2nd ed. Blackstone Press 1993) and the author of Electronic Finance Law (Woodhead Faulkner 1991) and Digital Information Law (CCLS 1996). He is a consultant to the City of London law firm Stephenson Harwood,a Council Member of the Society for Computer and Law and Convenor of the Society's Legislative Working Party. Chris has published widely on many aspects of computer law and research in which he was involved led to the EU directives on electronic signatures and on electronic commerce. From 1997-2000, Chris was Joint Chairman of the Society for Computers and Law, and in 1997-8 he acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. Chris participated as an Expert at the European Commission/Danish Government Copenhagen Hearing on Digital Signatures, represented the UK Government at the Hague Conference on Private International Law and has been an invited speaker at OECD and G8 international conferences. Homepage:
http://www.ccls.edu/staff/reed.html
Professor Frederik Willem Grosheide. Professor at the University of Utrecht in the field of private law and intellectual property law. He is chairman of the Centre of Intellectual Property Law (Molengraaff Institute UU). He is also director of several post graduate courses on behalf of judges, members of the bar and other practitioners in the Netherlands and abroad.He is advisor of the Ministry of Justice with respect to copyright and related issues and member of the Board of the Netherlands Association for Competition Law and member of the Board of the Netherlands Association for Copyright Law.
Yaman Akdeniz LL.B., MA, Ph.D . Founder and Director of Cyber-Rights and Cyber Liberties,a non-profit civil liberties organisation since 1997. He is Senior Lecturer in Cyber Law at the Centre For Criminal Justice Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds. http://www.policy.hu/akdeniz/yaman_akdeniz_cv.
Dr. Gao Fuping, Professor and Dean of the IP School of East China University of Politics & Laws (ECUPL). Prof. Gao specializes in several legal areas, e.g. property law, e-commerce law and IP law in cyberspace; he is the director of Research Center for Civil Law, and the director of the E-commerce Law Institute, the Secretary-general of Policy & Law Committee of China E-Commerce Association.
Dr. XUE Hong, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.
She is also the Professor of the Chinese University of Politics and Law (CUPL).
Dr. Xue specializes in intellectual property law, information technology law and the Internet governance. She is one of the three Asia-Pacific Representatives in the At-large Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Promotion of the Advanced Teaching and Research of Intellectual Property (ATRIP).
Prof. dr. Corien Prins holds a degree in law as well as Slavic languages and literature from Leiden University. In 1994 she was appointed professor of Law and Informatization at Tilburg University. Here she is a director of the Center for Law, Technology,and Society. Her present research topics include (international) regulatory questions of ICT and new technologies (biotechnology, ambient intelligence, nanotech), consumer protection in an ICT-society, biometric technology, e-government, NGO’s and new technologies, privacy and anonymity, identity and on-line personalisation.
Dr. Zheng Shengli is a professor at the law school and is the director of its Legal Research Center of Peking University.
Wolfgang Kilian , Prof. Dr. jur., Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics, University of Hannover: President of the Federation of International Research Institutes on Law and Information Technology in Europe (FIRILITE); Trustee of the European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP);
Dr. Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Professor for Civil Law, Commercial and Economic Law, Comparative Law, Multimedia- and Telecommunication Law at the University of Goettingen/Germany where he, among other topics, is mainly occupied with legal issues regarding E-commerce, i.e., Internet and Telecommunication Law. He has been elected as a full tenured Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Goettingen, 2004 and acted for several years as a Vice-Chairman of the German Society of Law and Information Science. Apart from teaching, various books, more than 100 articles in law reviews, as well as expert legal opinions are published by Professor Spindler. He is editor of one of the most renowned German law reviews covering the whole area of cyberspace law and telecommunication law. He also advises the German, as well as the European legislator regarding various questions concerning the information society and corporate law, such as the E-Commerce-Directive. |
