The Digital Economy Act 2010 was hurried into existence in the dying days of the last Labour government, and contains powers designed to resist unauthorised file sharing that are due to be implemented by an Initial Obligations Code authored by…

This is a special edition of the journal devoted to the legal educational papers given at or prepared for the 2012 British and Irish Law Education and
Technology Association Conference, held in the Centre for Life, Newcastle, hosted by…

Prof. Paliwala began his legal education career as a lecturer at Queen's University of Belfast and as a legal technologist while a parliamentary draftsman at Stormont in Belfast. Since then he has occupied a pivotal role in the development of…

This article presents an analysis based on data from an open dataset made available by an independent empirical research on the topic of  “Copyright in the digital age”. The original data includes information about attitudes, social perceptions and levels of…

Prof. Paliwala has published widely and had impact on an international level through his writings. We highlight some of these here.

At the 2012 BILETA conference it became known that Professor Abdul Paliwala was retiring from his post at Warwick University. No one announced it - it went round the conference. At the dinner a few words were said by Sefton…

The B-Annual SubTech meeting - from which some papers are appearing in this journal - is open to active researchers in the field of applications to computers and law. In this short overview I detail the philiosophy behind the meeting. …

                                             Judgment of  the German Supreme Court in  Gedichttitelliste III  concerning  the infringement of the Sui Generis database right after ECJ…

This article describes unresolved challenges of regulation of nanoparticles, mainly from a European perspective. The authors shall argue that the presently dominant strategy, which in this article will be called “filling in the regulatory gaps”, is unsatisfactory with respect to…

Worldwide, soft regulation like codes of conduct and benchmarks have been introduced to cope with the uncertain risks and benefits of nanotechnologies. However, it seems that these regulations are facing effectiveness problems. For instance, the European Commission’s 2008 Nano Code…