Lilian Edwards
Professor of Internet Law @ University of Strathclyde
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Lilian Edwards is a startup investor at University of Strathclyde in Edinburgh. Lilian Edwards is Professor of E-Governance at Strathclyde University and Director of the Centre for Internet Law and Policy, and from 2012/13, Director of the LLM in Internet Law and Policy. Her research interests encompass many areas of the law relating to the Internet, the Web and new technologies, including privacy, data protection, onlineintermediaries, filesharing, illegal content online, e-commerce, cybercrime and security, robo-ethics and digital property, with a European and comparative focus. She has co-edited three bestselling collections on Law and the Internet (Hart Publishing, 1997, 2000 and 2009) with Charlotte Waelde, and a third collection of essays The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe was published in 2005. She is currently writing a book on European privacy law online with Ian Brown of the Oxford Internet Institute. Her work in on-line consumer privacy won the Barbara Wellbery Memorial Prize in 2004 for the best solution to the problem of privacy and transglobal data flows.She worked at Strathclyde University from 1986-1988 and Edinburgh University from 1989 to 2006 before moving to become Chair of Internet Law at Southampton from 2006-2008 and then at Sheffield from 2008-2010. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for Research into IP and Technology Law (later “SCRIPT”), funded from 2002-2012. She has taught IT, e-commerce and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. She has been a visiting scholar and invited lecturer to universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Latin America and has undertaken consultancy for among others the European Parliament, the European commission, WIPO, the OECD, the Council of Europe, Google, Symantec and McAfee. She is actively engaged in digital rights online as a member of the advisory boards of the Open Rights Group and the Federation for Internet Privacy Research. Her blog on IT law matters, Pangloss, is widely read.
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The University of Strathclyde provides higher education programs across undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels, with a focus on teaching, applied research, and knowledge exchange. The institution offers postgraduate taught and research degrees, supported by a range of scholarship options designed to assist students with academicprogression. Research activity spans multiple disciplines and informs curriculum development, industry collaboration, and public impact initiatives.
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