Dr Daithi Mac Sithigh
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer in Law |
D dot Mac-Sithigh at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3261 |
Blackdale Annex 0.27 |
Biography
Daithí Mac Síthigh is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and joined the UEA Law School in 2008. His PhD thesis (completed in 2009) was on 'Convergence and the right to communicate: assessing the application of media law to the Internet'. He is a former Foundation Scholar of Trinity College and participant in the OII Summer Doctoral Programme on Internet law at the Berkman Center, Harvard Law School, and received the Northern Telecom Canadian Studies Scholarship to support his research on Canadian media policy.
At UEA, he teaches IT and Internet law (including the School's new undergraduate modules on Internet law, launched in 2010). He also teaches and carries out research in the areas of media law, and constitutional and administrative law. He is the convenor for media and IP research in the school and is an active participant in the media@uea network. Daithí is also a former member of the (Irish) Higher Education & Training Awards Council and the Irish Higher Education Quality Network, and is currently an associate editor of the law and technology journal SCRIPTed.
Daithí writes a blog on Internet and media law, Lex Ferenda, which can be read and subscribed to at http://www.lexferenda.com. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/macsithigh
Website
Key Research Interests
Journal Articles
"Virtual Walls: the Law of Pseudo-Public Spaces" [2011] International Journal of Law in Context forthcoming
"'I'd tell you everything if you'd pick up that telephone' - political expression and data protection" [2011] European Human Rights Law Review 166, SSRN Version
"Legal games: the regulation of content and the challenge of casual gaming" (2011) 3 Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (forthcoming)
"Regulating the Medium: reactions to network neutrality in the European Union and Canada" (2011) 14 (8) Journal of Internet Law 3 SSRN Version
"Co-regulation, video-on-demand, and the legal status of audio-visual media" (2011) 2 International Journal of Digital Television 51-68 SSRN Version
"The regulation of video games: past, present and future" (2010) 21 Entertainment Law Review 298
"More than words: the introduction of internationalised domain names and the reform of generic top-level domains at ICANN" (2010) 18 International Journal of Law & Information Technology 274.
"Pensioners over prisoners: amending the Scotland Act in response to Somerville and Napier" [2010] Juridical Review 1. (SSRN Version)
"Poking lawyers and politicians" (2009) 9 Revista de Internet, Derecho y Política; also available as "Legisladores y políticos en el punto de mira"
"Law In The Last Mile: Sharing Internet Access Through WiFi" (2009) 6(2) SCRIPTed 355
"Datafin to Virgin Killer: Self-Regulation and Public Law" NLSWP 09/02
"The mass age of Internet law" (2008) 17 Information & Communications Technology Law 79
"Student Contributions to Academic Values" (2006) 31 Higher Education in Europe 409
Book Chapters
"Usurping Press Freedom? The Mahon Tribunal and the Irish Media" in E O'Dell (ed) Freedom of Expression (Ashgate, forthcoming)
"Ireland" in A Mullis & C Doley (eds), Carter-Ruck on Libel & Privacy (2010)
Conference and Other Papers
"Net neutrality's tenth birthday: Internet regulation after the Telecoms Package and the Open Internet Order" (Competition Law & Economics European Network, Florence, may 2011)
"A Neutral Heart: participation in Ofcom's 2010 net neutrality consultation" (SLS Annual Conference, University of Sussex, April 2011)
"Regulation of Virtual Worlds" (The Game Behind The Video Game, Rutgers University, April 2011)
"The medium is still the message: Angry Birds, the Met Opera, and broadband bills" (University of Strathclyde, March 2011)
"Google in the spotlight" (Practical Law Company, February 2011)
"How I learned to stop worrying and love essential facilities" (CCP Seminar, January 2011) "From moving images to audiovisual media? Mapping multimedia regulation" (MeCCSA Annual Conference, January 2011)
"Obsession is a young man’s game: age & the classification / regulation of computer games" (Film & Television Studies Study Day, UEA, November 2010)
"Is it time for a Film Act?" (Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, September 2010)
"Journeyman to five-tool player? Co-regulation and audiovisual media in the UK" (ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Third Biennial Conference, June 2010
"What we talk about when we talk about Google" (Gikii Workshop, University of Edinburgh, June 2010)
"Security and data protection" (with Karen McCullagh) (Salford Human Rights conference, June 2010)
"Debating digital copyright: an assessment of international reactions to the Google Book Search settlement" (SLSA Annual Conference, Bristol, April 2010)
“Virtual Walls: the law of pseudo-public spaces” (SLSA Annual Conference, Bristol, April 2010)
"The name of the game: censorship, trade, and the future of computer games" (BILETA Annual Conference, Vienna, March 2010)
"Community online" (2009) 15 Public Service Review: Local Government and the Regions.
"Securing The Status: what has devolution meant for Gaelic?" (Scotland: Ten Years On, Glasgow, June 2009)
"It is hereby declared': the quiet reform of Canadian broadcasting law" (Society of Legal Scholars, Media & Communications Section, LSE, September 2008)
"The Right To Communicate" (Berkman Center Publius Papers, June 2008)
"Expression 2.0: From Known Unknowns to Unknown Knowns" (BILETA Annual Conference, Glasgow, March 2008)
"Im in ur tube blocking ur internets: The Politics, Perception and Parody of Network Neutrality Legislation" (GikII Workshop, UCL, September 2007)
"Minerva's Mouse: The Challenge of Cyberlaw" (Osgoode Hall Graduate Legal Research Conference, Toronto, May 2007)
"Web Media: Without Frontiers, Without Borders or Without Law?" (University Association of Contemporary European Studies, Limerick, September 2006)
"Multilingualism.com: Internationalisation of Domain Names and the Embedding of Online Language Rights" (International Academy of Linguistic Law 10th annual conference, Galway, June 2006)
Reports
"Irish Education Policy for a Globalised World: a policy for chasing black and white swans" (with A Kenny, C Larkin & J Thijssen) (Dublin: Swan Group/FBD Trust, 2009)
"Bologna With Student Eyes: 2007" (with A Mikkola, B Carapinha, C Tuck & N Gustaffson Aberg) (Brussels: ESIB, 2007)
