Principal Legal Author and editor:
M-T Michele Rennie (LL.B, NP) Head of Intellectual Property and Internet Law, Computalaw Ltd worldwide and legal advisor to numerous multi-national IT and e-commerce companies as well as to numerous smaller pioneering companies in specialist niche areas such as Cloud computing companies creating ‘Apps’; a collaboration of US and EU companies providing certification services to the aerospace and other safety critical industries; legal advisor to an exciting new technology company harnessing satellite data intelligence for environmental analysis and statistics required by multi-national organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and most recently, legal advisor on AI digital ‘tools’ for the legal sector and other industries. Read more about each of the author and contributors on www.computalaw.com
CONTRIBUTORS
USA
Peter Brown (BA, JD), principal of Peter Brown & Associates PLLC, New York. Read more
David Bender (Sc.B., LL.B., LL.M, S.J.D.), Special Counsel, Data Privacy, at GTC Law Group. Read more
J.T.(Jay) Westermeier (LL.M, JD, MBA), former Attorney at Law with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP in Reston, Virginia USA, prior to which he was a partner in DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, Reston, VA. Read more
China
Prof. Dr. Hong Xue, Professor of Law at Beijing Normal University (BNU), Director of the Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) and and Co-Director of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and former ICANN ccNSO councilor and the Chair of Council of Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance. Read more
India
Shalini Agarwal, (LLB, LLM Cantab.), founding Partner at InSe Legal, a full service Indian law firm and also a co-founder of India Across Borders - a global mobility solutions company. Read more
Vinay Joy and Ganesh Prasad – with Khaitan & Co. Mumbai and Bangalore.
Europe
Juma Weeks, Esq. (LL.B), senior associate in the Privacy and Cybersecurity team at the London office of Ropes & Gray LLP. Read more
Philip Woolfson (M.A., LL.B), partner in the Brussels office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Read more
Australia
Anna Sharpe (LL.B. (Hons), LL.M) (LLB (Hons), LLM, Grad Dip App Corp Gov, ACIS, ASCA), principal of the law firm Sharpe Ivo. Read more
Japan
Takashi Kanai (LL.B., LL.M), attorney-at-law at Frantech Law Office, Tokyo and a professor at Musashino University, Tokyo. Read more
Wakaba Hara, Makino Law, Tokyo. Read more
Electronic and Digital Signatures
Stephen Mason, an English barrister specialising in electronic and digital signature law. Updating releases are charged for individually when published.
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- Computer & Telecommunication Law Review
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-The Legal Executive Journal
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-The Legal Executive Journal
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-Computer Law & Security Report