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A. Section Profile
The cyberlaw section provides a forum for discussion of any aspect of
cyberlaw law, internet law or the law of e-commerce. At our first meeting
(Glasgow, 2005) topics included jurisdiction and choice of law, online
contracting, consumer issues, the Microsoft decisions, and the software
patents issue. Contributions from any academic angle or point of view are
very welcome.
B. Section Convenor
Dr Faye Fangfei WangSenior Lecturer in Law (Cyber Law Research) Co-Director, CIPPM Department of Law Bournemouth University Executive Business Centre 89 Holdenhurst Road Bournemouth BH8 8EB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1202 96 8708Email: fwang@bournemouth.ac.uk
C. Section News
- Second-Round Call for Papers on Cyberlaw at the 2010 SLS Conference - Published Tuesday August 03 2010.
- Call for Papers on Cyberlaw for the 2010 SLS Conference at Southampton - Published Tuesday February 02 2010.
D. Provisional Conference Programme
2010 Conference at Southampton
Session 1: September 15th 11.30 - 13.00 Room Law 4053
Human Rights in Cyberspace
1A Audrey Guinchard (Essex)
Human Rights in Cyberspace (Keynote for Cyberlaw section)
1B. . Dinusha Mendis (Central Lancashire)
The Digital Economy Bill: The end of the road for users' rights and human rights?
1C. Martina Gillen (Oxford Brookes)
Through a Monitor Darkly: The Clouded Vision of Rights in Cyberspace (Digital Economy Bill)
Commentator: David Howards and Faye Wang
Session 2: September 15th 14.00 - 15.30 Room Law 4053
Recent Cyberlaw Development
2A. Joe Sekhon (Portsmouth)
The Great Firewall of China? How Google's threat to withdraw from China has reignited calls for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in particular to Cyberspace
2B. Emily Laidlaw (LSE)
The Human Rights Responsibilities of Internet Gatekeepers
2C. Moe Alramahi (Robert Gordon)
Are Domain Names a new form of property?
2D. Christopher James Lever( Edinburgh)
The New Social Contract: A Second Lease of Life? / Or Lease to Second Life?
Commentator: Audrey Guinchard and Faye Wang
Session 3 September 16th 09.00 - 10.30 Room Law 4053
Data Protection
3A. Caroline Wilson (Southampton)
"Political Discourse 2.0: A critical consideration of the appropriate legal restrictions to scraping, mining and seeding political discourse on social networking sites."
3B. Paul Bernal (LSE)
Taking back control - a rights-based approach to the gathering, processing and holding of personal data in the online environment.
3C. Bill Davies (Hertfordshire)
The Labours of Valukas - Document Review and the Lehmans Report
3D. Jaspal Kaur (Aberystwyth)
Critical Challenges to Free Expression: How critical are these to social media actors?
Commentator: Julia Hörnle and Faye Wang
Session 4 September 16th 11.00 - 12.30 Room Law 4053
Cyberlaw Challenges
4A. Julia Hörnle (Queen Mary)
Should we prohibit or liberalise online gambling?
4B. Richard Jones (Liverpool John Moores) & Dr Subhajit Basu (Leeds)
Where Evil Dare! Regulation of Cyberstalking
4C. Rebecca Wong (Nottingham Trent)
Data Protection: the challenges facing Social Networking
Commentator: Audrey Guinchard, Lorna E Gillies and Faye Wang
Previous Conferences
- Oxford 2003.
- Sheffield 2004.
- Strathclyde 2005.
- Keele 2006.
- Durham 2007.
- London 2008.