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HDI, the Internet of Things, System Design, and the Law: Workshop and Funding Call
Workshop: 5 February 2020 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London We are pleased to announce this workshop and funding call for the UK EPSRC Network Plus Human Data Interaction (HDI) Project taking place on the 5th February 2020 at the Institute of...
ILPC Evening Seminar: Benefits and Challenges of Health Data Sharing
Date: Thursday 5th December 2019Institute:Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Time:5.30pm - 7pm Book here.Speakers:Dr Edward Dove (Lecturer in Health Law and Regulation, School of Law, University of Edinburgh) Dr Ciara Staunton...
Whose e-signature is it anyway?
Reposted from Cyberleagle with permission and thanks. Last month the Law Commission issued its Report on Electronic Execution of Documents. The report reinforced the Commission's view, first expressed in 2001, that electronic signatures are generally capable of...
Blockchain-enabled smart contracts, copyright licensing, and the right to change one’s mind – Guido Noto La Diega PhD FHEA
The concept of smart contract predates the blockchain and was first presented in 1994 by Nick Szabo who defined it as ‘a computerized transaction protocol that executes the terms of a contract.’[1] The promise of automated execution has become even more alluring with...
Podcast: Media coverage concerning children charged with crime – Dr Faith Gordon
Reposted from Mojo News. Dr Faith Gordon, the Director of the Interdisciplinary International Youth Justice Network, shares her thoughts on naming and shaming children charged with crime. She reviews the case of UK toddler James Bulger's killers, Robert Thompson and...
Sir Henry Brooke Annual Lecture 2019
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and the Law When: Tuesday 12 November 2019, 5:30pm - 9:00pmWhere:The Auditorium, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Northcliffe House, 26-28 Tudor Street, London, EC4Y 0BQ Details: On behalf of the Trustees of the British and Irish...
ILPC Evening Seminar: To Blockchain or not to Blockchain: Implications for Data Protection Law
Date 10 Oct 2019, 17:30 to 10 Oct 2019, 19:00 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Type Seminar Venue Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Description To Blockchain or not to Blockchain, this question is the focus of our...
Landmark Decision Defamation Case in Australia Holds Media Companies Liable for Facebook Comments – Dr. Faith Gordon
Dr. Faith Gordon is a Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Faith established and is the Director of the Interdisciplinary International Youth Justice Network; a Research Associate at the Information Law & Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal...
In conversation with: Dr Damian Clifford, Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven Centre
Damian Clifford is a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, funded by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO). Damian recently defended his PhD entitled ‘The Legal Limits to the Monetisation of Online Emotions’, and has...
Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity – Zac Rogers
Back in the 1990s – a lifetime ago in internet terms – the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells published several books charting the rise of information networks. He predicted that in the networked age, more value would accrue in controlling flows of information than...