Regulatory accountability is one of the key focuses of the LSE Law, Technology and Society group. The group brings together experts in financial market regulation, the regulation of medical devices and treatments, outsourcing, data privacy and data protection, children’s rights and digital online, AI and machine learning regulation. The regulatory accountability sub-group is highly embedded into society with members filling such important roles as memberships of the Prudential Regulation Committee at the Bank of England and the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee. Group members have advised the UK Government, the Belgian Government, The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the EU Commission.
The regulatory accountability group provide regulator keynote speakers, expert witnesses and roundtable experts to global conferences, workshops and inquiries. In the past three years members of the group have acted as co-chair of British Academy/Centre of Data Ethics and Innovation roundtable on a national data strategy and have been invited to speak to the 41st International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners, the Financial Conduct Authority, NESTA, and the RegTechTalents conference. They have given evidence or legal advice to the Federal Trade Commission, the House of Lords Communications Committee, the Flemish Minister for Media, the World Health Organisation and the Ministry of Commerce and Investment of Saudi Arabia. In addition, Professor Murray acted as the Special Advisor to the House of Lords Communications Committee for the duration of its inquiry into internet regulation and governance.
The group have published extensively in this field including leading books such as Professor Black’s Rules and Regulators, Professor Jackson’s Law and the Regulation of Medicines, Professor Murray’s The Regulation of Cyberspace and Rethinking the Jurisprudence of Cyberspace and Dr. Lynskey’s The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law and Professor Lewis’s editorship of Getting the Deal Through – Cloud Computing. It is not only leading academic work though that the group produces. The group also contributes heavily to the LSE Law Policy Briefing Series including Professor Murray’s recent paper Rethinking Regulation for the Digital Environment and Professor Jackson’s paper Reforming the Statutory Storage Period for Frozen Eggs.
Staff in the Regulatory Accountability Group
Professor Julia Black
Professor Emily Jackson
Professor Mark Lewis
Dr Orla Lynskey
Professor Andrew Murray