Join us this Thursday!

Join us for an early kick-starter morning session with Prof. Orla Lynskey and Prof. Lee Bygrave on publishing in generalist journals and monographs, on 4 December at 9:00-10:00 AM CET – register here: https://tinyurl.com/ykw878md

Join us for an early kick-starter morning session with Prof. Orla Lynskey and Prof. Lee Bygrave on publishing in generalist journals and monographs, on 4 December at 9:00-10:00 AM CET ☕️– register here: tinyurl.com/ykw878md

It is 20 years since Conor Gearty gave the Hamlyn Lectures on Can Human Rights Survive?
As a mark of respect following the dreadful news of his, Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made these lectures Open Access for the remainder of the year. You can find them here:
lnkd.in/e5Xrt2G5

On the passing of Conor Gearty - Doing Feminist Legal Work In my early twenties I once got on a train to Durham that didn’t stop at Durham because I was so engrossed in a book. That, you might think, is to be expected

On the incredibly sad news of Conor Gearty's passing: dflw.ie/on-the-passi...

My book is out today!

LAWS0366 Internet Law and Policy Convened by Dr Michael Veale, co-taught with Professor Orla Lynskey, Dr Bernard Keenan This is a 10-week module delivered to final year LLB students at the Faculty of Laws, University College London in the 2024-5 academic year. We provide the syllabus online to support people learning and teaching these topics around the world, and hope that it encourages colleagues elsewhere to make their materials similarly available. L1: Welcome to the Internet (Yes, We Have Cats) L2: How To Control the Internet L3: Intermediaries I: Liability for Online Content T1: D’oH! Code, Law and Politics of Encrypted DNS L4: Intermediaries II: Moderation, Algorithms and General Monitoring L5: Intermediaries III: Platform Regulation and Regulating-by-Design T2: Regulating Recommending L6: Data Protection: Form, Function and Reach L7: Data Protection’s Substance: Cutting to the Core T3: Data Rights and Wrongs L8: Being Forgotten Online L9: Bidding for Attention: Online Tracking and Data Protection Law T4: Let’s Do It At My Place Instead? Challenges of Encrypted Computation In Advertising and Beyond L10: Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection

I've updated our UCL Laws LAWS0366 Internet Law and Policy 10-week syllabus for public reading and learning (taught with @bernardkeenan.bsky.social and Orla Lynskey) - access it here www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/syl...

We'll run it as a 20 week version next year so will expand it out again!

Book Launch: Inception - State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks

I'll be launching the book at UCL on 10 June with @paulfscott.bsky.social, @daniellalock.bsky.social and @michae.lv

www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

My first book is out on 27 May with @mitpress.bsky.social. It offers a media history of the power to intercept communications in Britain from the foundation of the Post Office to the (near) present, and the changing relationship between law, sovereignty, and media.

Apple’s appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK’s encryption ‘back door’ explained | Computer Weekly

My thoughts about what should happen, and what might happen, in the Apple encryption case before the IPT

www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Appl...

After a refreshing lunch break we are back with Panel 3 on "The Impact of Permacrisis on Sources and Structures of International Law" ⚖️🌐

Chair: Federica Paddeu

Speakers:
🎙️Stefan Robert McClean
🎙️Triantafyllos Kouloufakos
🎙️Nahide Basri

Discussant: Helmut Aust

#ESILRF2025

Join our workshop today at 9:00am in 101D at RightsCon with @marwasf.bsky.social @giuliowolfe.bsky.social and Caterina Rodelli

Join us on 23 January 2025 between 15:00-18:00 CET, where data protection scholars will represent their work in just 3 minutes and 5 slides! Registrations via: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If a boy and his cat emerged alive from under a ruined building in literally any other part of the world, there would be scores of heartwarming news stories about it. The dehumanizing treatment of Palestinians is the great abomination of our age.

Thanks to @todddavi.es, apparently there are more viewings now - www.arthousecrouchend.co.uk/programme/?p...

The Divided Island

Sharing for anyone interested in learning (more) about the Cypriot tragedy, past and present, and the human stories behind. Looking forward to watching on the 25th of November, which is the last (and now only) day of screening in London

About the Network The daily management of the Data Protection Law Scholars Network is currently led by the following Steering Committee: Gloria González Fuster, Research Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jef Ausloos, Assistant Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam Kristina Irion, Associate Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam Eleni Kosta, Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights, Tilburg University Lee A Bygrave, Professor, University of Oslo Franziska Boehm, Professor, Leibniz-Institute for Information Infrastructure in Karlsruhe (FIZ) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Orla Lynskey, Professor of Law and Technology, University College London Michael Veale, Associate Professor in Digital Rights and Regulation, University College London The Management Committee coordinating the Network is composed of: Rocco Saverino, PhD Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Stephanie von Maltzan, Research Associate, FIZ Karlsruhe Nahide Basri, PhD Candidate, University College London Spyros Syrrakos, PhD Researcher, London School of Economics Shweta Degalahal, PhD Candidate, Tilburg University Alexandra Karaiskou PhD Candidate, European University Institute Former Members of the Steering and the Management Committees: Olga Gkotsopoulou, PhD Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Management Committee, on leave), 2021-2022 Thilo Gottschalk, Research Associate, FIZ Karlsruhe Katherine Nolan, Professor, Ulster University Ana-Maria Hriscu, PhD Researcher, Tilburg University Maria Magierska, PhD Researcher, European University Institute Taner Kuru, PhD Researcher, Tilburg University

As the name suggests, we're a network of scholars of data protection. We have events, online & offline, particularly supporting early-career researchers; a website dataprotectionscholars.network; an email list (send 'Subscribe' to data-protection-scholars-join@lists.uvt.nl). The humans involved are:

Share your research with many others working in or around data protection and technology! Send your abstract by 18 December - more info below: