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The Body of Law: An exhibition of drawings by Isobel Williams
The Supreme Court welcomes and informs the public, but how does an artist interpret the coded theatre of the hearings? Isobel William's new exhibition of drawings, sketched from the public seats of the Supreme Court with the court's permission, and other locations,...
Submissions and peer reviewers sought for new open access information rights journal
The Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice is a new open access, peer reviewed online journal launched in April. The journal aims to encourage interdisciplinary debate of current information rights issues from a variety of policy, practitioner and academic...
Call for Papers: Restricted and Redacted – Where now for human rights and digital information control?
Restricted and Redacted: Where now for human rights and digital information control? We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the annual IALS’ Information Law and Policy Centre research workshop on 9 November 2016 in London, this year supported by...
Workshop summary: Evaluating legal responses to threats to news in a digital environment
On the 3rd November 2015, a workshop was held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London, to discuss potential legal responses to threats to the production of news in a digital environment. Particular attention was paid to copyright. The workshop was...
Briefing: How Brexit might affect EU audio-visual media services policy-making
This brief by Professor Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter, discusses the current issues affecting UK stakeholders in the cross-border audio-visual services sector. It is written in light of the replies to the public consultation on Directive 2010/13/EU on...
Current vacancies in information law and policy
It seems that information law and policy jobs are just like buses ... Here are several current opportunities to share with your networks. (If you have any to advertise, please let us know - we are happy to help spread the word). Our friends at the Institute for...
News: CMS committee approves Elizabeth Denham’s appointment as Information Commissioner
On Wednesday 27 April the government's preferred candidate for the new Information Commissioner appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, whose remit now extends to this post. Video here. The CMS committee has now published its report,...
Comment: The not-so-secret life of ‘Generation Tagged’
In this post, Marion Oswald, Helen James & Emma Nottingham from the Centre for Information Rights, University of Winchester consider the issues for children's privacy, in light of the recent case of PJS v News Group Newspapers, being considered in the Supreme...
Notice-and-Fair-Balance: the Law of Fundamental Rights in European Intermediary Liability
On 11 April 2016, Christina Angelopoulos of the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Stijn Smet of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University gave a presentation at the BILETA Conference (which took place this year at the...
CJEU AG suggests that free Wi-Fi providers may not be ordered to password protect their networks
Christina Angelopoulos is a post-doc researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the University of London. She wrote her PhD on intermediary liability in copyright at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. In the following...