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Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology asks an increasingly iterated question in the field of human reproductive law and ethics: has the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (“the 2008 Act”) achieved its stated aim of being “fit

In an age punctuated by local and global crises (pandemics, natural disasters, and political calamities come most prominently to mind), and a seemingly ever-growing shift towards individualistic, consumerist behaviour (coded in part by a neoliberal socio-political ethos of self-responsibilisation), what

Graeme Dinwoodie, one of the most prolific, highly-regarded, and internationally renowned intellectual property (IP) scholars, has edited a fine-tuned collection of academic writings that explore the hierarchical relationship between IP and other areas of the law. Intellectual Property and General

Maria Tzanou’s book, The Fundamental Right to Data Protection: Normative Value in the Context of Counter-Terrorism Surveillance, places at the centre stage “the scope, the content and the capabilities of data protection as a fundamental right to resolve problems and

It is hard to imagine that in the late 1990s many high street retailers did not regard the online environment as something more valuable than a space to announce their presence to the outside world. Amazon.com not only filled this

David Harvey[1] is both a practising and an academic lawyer. Prior to becoming director of the Centre for ICT Law at the University of Auckland, he was for several decades a litigator and a District Court Judge in New Zealand.

Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment, edited by Maja Brkan and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, provides the reader what the title suggests: a birds-eye view of the case law of the European supranational and national courts on the protection

In this timely, thought-provoking, and forward-looking book, Christina Munns, an informatics consultant based in Leeds, and Subhajit Basu, an Associate Professor in Information Technology Law at the University of Leeds School of Law, argue that patients should be empowered by

Medical Experimentation: Personal Integrity and Social Policy was written by Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried more than 40 years ago and has been out of print until its republishing by Oxford University Press in 2016. The impetus to republish

How might future generations view the Internet and other innovations transforming society and its institutions at a scale and pace that has no historical precedent? Answering this question would have been challenging at the best of times, and it is