May 28, 2020 | ILPC Spotlight
Graham Smith is of counsel at Bird & Bird LLP, based in London. He is one of the UK’s leading cyberlaw experts, with a practice encompassing advisory and contentious work in the internet, IT and intellectual property fields. In this edition of the Spotlight...
Apr 30, 2020 | ILPC Spotlight
The use of (live) facial recognition technology in public places has become a hot topic internationally, with governments keen to implement it as part of ‘smart city’ strategies. In the current moment of COVID-19 and surveillance techniques, some places, notably...
Jan 30, 2020 | ILPC Spotlight
Last year, we held our Annual Lecture and Conference ‘Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges’, bringing together an eclectic mix of experts, academics and civil society. A plethora of pertinent topics relating to digital rights post-Brexit were explored,...
Oct 16, 2019 | ILPC Spotlight
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...
Sep 18, 2019 | ILPC Spotlight
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...
Sep 18, 2019 | ILPC Spotlight
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...
