PhD student wins Google Award for Best Postgraduate paper
Tue 19 April 2016
Laurence Diver was afforded the honour at this year's British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) conference
Edinburgh Law School PhD student Laurence Diver has won the Google Award for Best Postgraduate Paper for "The Lawyer in the Machine: Towards the Automation of Privacy by Design". This award was given at the BILETA conference, held at the University of Hertfordshire.
The paper suggests the application of a process visualisation technique in the field of data protection, demonstrating a novel method of bridging the expertise gap between lawyers and systems designers. It comes at an important time in the evolution of data protection law, just as the draft text of the EU General Data Protection Regulation is adopted. The paper demonstrates the benefits of interdisciplinary research between law and computer science that is a core interest of SCRIPT.
Laurence is supervised by SCRIPT Director Professor Burkhard Schafer and Judith Rauhofer, the IT Co-Director of SCRIPT