Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm Venue: Skeel Lecture Theatre, People’s Palace, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS
The event will involve a 1 hour lecture, followed by a 1 hour free drinks reception.
Attendance is free but you must book online to attend - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-julia-hornle-unclaimed-territories-in-the-clouds-where-are-the-limits-to-internet-tickets-19602449454
The lecture will capture the conflicts of law created by the internet and, most recently the adoption of cloud computing. The internet has enabled unhindered data flows across borders and cloud computing essentially enables the remote processing and storage of vast quantities of data. These technologies fundamentally conflict with laws’ conventional understanding of jurisdiction and the limitation of a state’s power to its territory. The lecture will pinpoint this fundamental conflict with examples from different areas of law: online consumer protection; regulatory conflicts over online gambling; law enforcement’s powers to access foreign data for investigating (cyber-) crime and the regulation of on demand internet videos (porn and hate) and indicate some solutions to these conflicts of law.
Julia Hörnle has taught and researched internet law since 2001, after having worked as a solicitor. She has published over 60 Articles and three books (E-commerce Law and Practice in Europe; Cross-border Internet Dispute Resolution and Cross-border Online Gambling: Law and Practice). She has taught internationally, at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, the University of Vienna, the National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University and at the Attorney General’s Chambers in Singapore. Julia speaks regularly at international conferences and has appeared on National Media (BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action Programme; Woman’s Hour; Sky News). She was a Board Member of the co-regulator for TV on demand 2010-2014. She is also the Managing Editor of IJLIT (Oxford University Press) and acts as expert for ODR (Council of Europe).