The emerging disciplines of Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Media and Communications Regulation are among the most dynamic and exciting legal developments in recent years. LSE Law is at the leading edge of these fields. We have a team of experts researching a variety of aspects within these subjects ranging from internet governance and regulation, media content regulation, spectrum regulation and net neutrality, electronic commerce, IP rights protection in the digital environment and regulation of internet content through to universal service provisions, network regulation and telecommunications regulation within developing markets.
Recently the ICT, Media and Communications Group have contributed to the Ministry of Justice Consultation on reform of the Libel Laws and have advised a wide variety of media organisations, NGOs and regulatory bodies including the BBC Trust, the Financial Reporting Council, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office, the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Creative Commons, Amnesty, Article 19 and Backlash. Staff in the ICT, Media and Communications Group have produced or contributed to monographs on libel law, competition in the media sector, internet governance, information technology law and society, risk and regulation, spectrum management and human rights engagement
LSE Law collaborates closely with the Department of Media and Communications, which is a focus for interdisciplinary research within the fields of telecommunications, media and new media. In addition we collaborate with colleagues in a number of related disciplines including the Information Systems and Innovation Group, PolisMedia, BIOS, the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation and the Sociology, Economics and Government Departments. This inter-disciplinary research group runs a range of seminars for graduate students and draws upon a wide range of speakers from both sides of the regulatory divide to provide contemporary insights into the fast-changing regulatory structures in these subject areas. LLM students are welcome to attend these informal and informative seminars. For further details, see the LSE Information Technology Law web pages at http://theitlawyer.blogspot.co.uk/
Faculty
Professor Robert Baldwin (Emeritus)
(Regulatory Theory and Regulatory Design)
Anne Barron
(Copyright and Related Rights)
Professor Conor Gearty
(Civil Liberties including Freedom of Expression and Privacy)
Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo
(Freedom of expression and communications regulation)
Dr Orla Lynskey
(data protection, privacy and technology regulation)
Professor Andrew Murray
(Internet Regulation and Information Technology Law; Digital Rights)
Dr Andrew Scott
(Media law and regulation)
Dr Siva Thambisetty
(Patent Law, Software Patents and Synthetic Biology)
Dr Valerie Verdoodt (LSE Fellow)
(Children’s rights in the digital environment, IT and Media Law)
Postgraduate Students
MacKenzie Common
Katherine Nolan
Recent publications
- Orla Lynskey 'Criminal justice profiling and EU data protection law: precarious protection from predictive policing' International Journal of Law in Context (2019) 15(2) 162-176
- Orla Lynskey 'Grappling with "Data Power": Normative Nudges from Data Protection and Privacy'Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2019) 20 (1)
- Orla Lynskey 'A legal response to data-driven mergers' in Bayamlioglu, Baraliuc, Janssens and Hildebrandt (eds) Being Profiled: Cogitas Ergo Sum 10 Years of 'Profiling the European Citizen (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
- Eva Micheler 'Regulatory Technology: Replacing Law with Computer Code'LSE Law Working Papers 14/2018 (with Anna Whaley)
- Andrew Murray 'Data transfers between the EU and UK post Brexit?'International Data Privacy Law (2017)
- Andrew Scott Positive Free Speech: Rationales, Methods and Implications (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017) (co-edited with Andrew Kenyon) (in press)
- Pablo Ibáñez Colomo Copyright Licensing and the EU Digital Single Market Strategy'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 19-2015
- Andrew Murray 'A Principled Approach to Net Neutrality'SCRIPT-ed, (2016) Vol.13.(2) pp.118-143 (with Lucie Audibert)
- Andrew Murray 'The role of non-state actors and institutions in the governance of new and emerging digital technologies'. In: Scotford, Eloise, Brownsword, Roger and Yeung, Karen, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on the Law and Regulation of Technology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (2017) (In Press)
- Andrew Murray Information technology law: the law and society. Third ed., Oxford University Press, 2016
- Andrew Murray 'Mapping the rule of law for the internet'. In : Gillies, Lorna and Mangan, David, (eds.) The legal challenges of social media.Edward Elgar Publishing, Edward Elgar, UK (2017). (In Press)
- Andrew Murray eDirectives: A Guide to European Union Law on E-commerce Second Ed, Edward Elgar, UK (2017) (In Proofs)
- Andrew Scott Reform of Defamation Law in Northern Ireland (Department of Finance, 2016)
- Andrew Scott 'Ceci n’est pas une pipe: the autopoietic inanity of the single meaning rule in libel law', in Kenyon (ed) Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
- Andrew Scott 'An Unwholesome Layer Cake: intermediary liability in English defamation and data protection law' in Mangan and Gilles (eds), The Legal Challenges of Social Media (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) [FORTHCOMING]
- Andrew Scott Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest (Oxford University Press, 2016) (with Gavin Millar QC)
- Orla Lynskey 'The Internal and External Constraints of Data Protection on Competition Law in the EU' LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 25-2015 (with Francisco Costa-Cabral)
- Orla Lynskey The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Orla Lynskey 'Control over personal data in a digital age: Google Spain v AEPD and Maria Costeja Gonzalez' Modern Law Review (2015) 78 3 pp.522-534
- Andrew Murray 'The value of analogue educational tools in a digital educational environment'European Journal of Law and Technology (2015) 6 (1) pp.1-16
- Andrew Scott Gatley on Libel and Slander (Rev 12th edn, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2015/2013), with HHJ Richard Parkes QC, Alastair Mullis, Adam Speker and Godwin Busuttil
- Pablo Ibáñez Colomo 'The Commission Investigation into Pay TV Services: Open Questions'Journal of European Competition Law and Practice (2014), 5(8) 531-541
- Pablo Ibáñez Colomo , Pablo 2014 Towards more competition in pay TV services? the commission investigates agreements between Hollywood major studios and broadcasters. LSE Law Policy Briefing Series, 5. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London.
- Orla Lynskey'Deconstructing data protection: the "added-value" of a right to data protection in the EU legal order' International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2014) 63 (3) pp.569-597
- Andrew Scott 'Tilting at Windmills: the Defamation Act 2013' (2014) Modern Law Review, 77 (1) pp.87-109 (with Alastair Mullis)
- Orla Lynskey 'From Market-Making Tool to Fundamental Right: the Role of the Court of Justice in Data Protection's Identity Crisis', chapter in Serge Gutwirth et al (eds) European Data Protection: Coming of Age (Springer 2013) pp.59-84