Speaker details
Fernando Barrio is a Senior Lecturer in Business Law and Director of the newly created Knowledge Industries Research Centre at the London Metropolitan Business School, and Adjunct Faculty on International Business Law and Media Law at the Webster University’s London Campus. His undergraduate studies took place at the Universidad de Belgrano and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, both in Argentina, and specialization courses at the now Dominican University of California. Holds a MA in International Cooperation Studies (Legal System of International Cooperation) and a Ph.D. in International Cooperation from the Graduate School in International Development of the Nagoya University, Japan, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and teaching in Higher Education from the London Metropolitan University. Was advisor to the Governor of the Rio Negro Province for international economic cooperation, and was alternate representative to the national groups of the Common Market Group of MERCOSUR and the ECA 16 with Chile, and to the Foreign Trade Federal Council and the Free Trade Zones Federal Council. Was in charge of the non-judicial negotiations area of the Buenos Aires’ law firm Piatigorsky and Assistant Professor of International Cooperation and Integration Processes Law at the Universidad de Belgrano. Was visiting professor of the Sasaki International Academy, research assistant at the Toyota Technological Institute and Teaching Assistant at the Nagoya University, all in Japan. Has spoken widely on matters related to computer law and intellectual property in several countries and has been consultant to the Corporation of London and other public and private institutions in Europe. Recently held the E. Desmond Visiting Professorship of Global Awareness at Webster University, St Louis, MO, and it is the host of the TV series Global Thinking of the Higher Education Channel of Missouri.
Dr Ian Brown is a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, and an honorary senior lecturer at University College London. His work is focused on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy, copyright and e- democracy. He also works in the more technical fields of information security, networking and healthcare informatics. Dr Brown is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the British Computer Society, and an adviser to Privacy International, the Open Rights Group, the Foundation for Information Policy Research and Greenpeace. He has consulted for the US government, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, the European Commission and the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
Ray Corrigan is a Senior Lecturer in Technology at the Open University (OU)and author of 'Digital Decision Making: Back to the Future', published by Springer-Verlag in 2007. He wrote the OU's 'Law, the Internet and Society: Technology and the Future of Ideas' course, shortly to be made available openly again on OpenLearn (http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php), as well as a variety of other materials on the environment and information and communications technologies; and blogs random thoughts on law, the Internet and society at http://b2fxxx.blogspot.com/ He has direct responsibility on a day to day level for about 70 associate lecturers and 1500 undergraduate students in the South of England studying the whole range of Open University technology courses (http://technology.open.ac.uk/2_stdyw/sub.htm).
Ray dabbles in the use of the Internet and digital technologies in education, having been at the front line of the OU's industrial-scale deployment of e-learning for many years. Research interests include interacting developments in law and technology and their wider effects
on society.
Before alighting in academia he spent nearly ten years in a variety of roles in industry. He is a chartered member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Andres Guadamuz is a Lecturer in E-Commerce Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also a co-Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Andres has Bachelor, Practitioner and Notary Public degrees from the University of Costa Rica. He's been in the UK since 1998 and obtained an LL.M. in International Business Law at the University of Hull and an M.Phil from Queen's University Belfast. His main areas of research are open source software and licensing, in which he has published extensively, acting as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Other research interests are: payment systems, technology transfer, the interaction between technology and the law, and the role of intellectual property in developing countries.
Dr Richard Jones is Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK. He was educated at QMW London (B.A.), the University of Edinburgh (M.Sc., with Distinction), and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D.). His research interests are in the areas of the sociology of punishment (including the study of penal populism), surveillance, cybercrime, social control, and the politics of criminal justice. He has published and given papers on a range of topics including the electronic monitoring ('tagging') of offenders, access control, computers and crime, penal populism and the media, airport security, the use of force in policing, and surveillance theory. He is currently undertaking a research project on compliance and regulation, including the use of physical and virtual constraints in social control.
He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Criminology. He has been an Examiner on M.Phil. degrees both at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. In 2003-4 he was a Visiting Academic at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Richard Jones was a Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
Richard Jones is an Associate of Edinburgh Law School's AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, and a member of its Centre for Law and Society. He has a long-standing interest in computers and technology. He was Computing Convenor in the Law School and member of the College of Humanities and Social Science's Computing Strategy Committee, 2005-8. He has been involved in various website improvement projects, and does consultancy work in this area. Richard is also a member of the University of Edinburgh's Information Security Working Group.
Richard teaches on undergraduate criminology courses and on the M.Sc. in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has co-supervised two PhDs to successful completion, and welcomes applications from prospective PhD students, particularly in the areas of surveillance studies, cybercrime, compliance and social control, and the sociology of punishment.
Daithí Mac Síthigh was sent to law school in Dublin and Toronto for a crime he didn't commit. He promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Open University and then to the PhD programme at Trinity College Dublin. Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a soldier of fortune, being a research assistant, tutor in constitutional law, and blogger at lexferenda.com, while writing his thesis on the regulation of 'new media' in the EU and Canada. (If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can understand what they say, maybe you can hire... a Gik-lawyer).
Judith Rauhofer is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Information & Converging Technologies at the University of Central Lancashire. Judith is qualified as a solicitor in both England and Germany. She practised for four years, working for a number of commercial law firms in Liverpool, London and Manchester, where she specialized in data protection, IT and e-commerce law. She returned to academia in 2004 where she has conducted research on data retention, whistleblowing and aspects of data protection in the context of security and anti-terrorism legislation.
Caroline Wilson is an intellectual property law academic based at the School of Law, University of Southampton. She teaches and researches in comparative intellectual property law and information technology law. Her consultancy activities are mainly in professional education and CPD.
Peter K. Yu holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School. He is also a Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. In the summers, he serves as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Before joining Drake University, he founded the nationally-renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He is the author or editor of three books and more than 50 law review articles and book chapters. He has spoken at events organized by WIPO, ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO, the Chinese, Hong Kong and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned more than fifteen countries on five continents, and he is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. His publications are available on his website at www.peteryu.com.
