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Jaani Riordan’s recent book, The Liability of Internet Intermediaries, maps the legal issues arising from the mediated environment of information flows. It is a timely book: in its recent communication, Digital Single Market Strategy (DSMS), the EU Commission identified Internet

Big data analytics has gradually come into public view since the dawn of 21st century, yet a detailed inquiry concerning its social and legal implications has been missing in the discourse on privacy and data protection. This book, Group Privacy:

Ethical Judgements: Re-Writing Medical Law is an engaging and timely addition to the socio-legal literature on the interaction between medical law, ethics, and the judiciary. It addresses and makes explicit, in a rather original manner,[1] the complex ethical questions that

Having received only a short introduction to empirical bioethics as a student almost a decade ago, I found myself happily picking up this edited volume as I become increasingly aware of the need to closely reflect upon my own developing

Textbooks on information and communications technology law (ICT law) are especially challenging for authors. This sprawling field demands knowledge of multiple areas of domestic law, understanding of numerous cross-border issues and the wider international framework, as well as a grasp

Lucky is the intellectually intrepid medical law and ethics scholar in the UK today. Multiple textbooks abound (including from the same publisher),[1] and in such a buyer’s market, one wonders how authors can readily distinguish their book from others. Indeed,

It is not difficult to guess the grand ambition from the title of Rethinking Cyberlaw: A New Vision For Internet Law. The primary goal of Jacqueline Lipton (David L. Brennan Chair in Law and the Director of the Center for

Does it matter that children continue to be subjected to the relentless gaze of new technologies? This question hints at a self-evident state of affairs for children in the age of ubiquitous computing. Children’s rights to privacy, and freedoms such

What is privacy, and where do its limitations lie? Perhaps this is the most fascinating yet most complicated question for a privacy lawyer. The value of privacy is shared across cultures but the concept itself may carry entirely different, localised

Is today’s global patent system failing to adhere to the human rights ideal of universal access to science? That is the question that Professor Aurora Plomer (University of Bristol Law School) answers in the affirmative in her superb and timely