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In a paper entitled ‘Data Protection: regulatory (in)adequacy?’ presented at the annual British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association ( BILETA) conference at Liverpool Law School, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh traced the development of the UK’s data protection regulator since its inception almost 30 years ago.  Dr Mc Cullagh’s study examined its development through four distinct phases, in order to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the regulator to date, and predict...

A privacy-friendly internet might be possible in the future according to an academic from the University of East Anglia. Speaking at a conference on Friday 12th April, Dr Paul Bernal painted a picture of what a privacy-friendly internet might look like in practice and put forward a series of internet privacy rights – rights that are both theoretical and achievable – and took a look at how the implementation of those might impact upon the internet. It follows the proposal of ideas...

Dr Peter Whelan, a Lecturer in Law at UEA Law School, has completed a Visiting Professorship at the Institute of International Trade and Law in Moscow. In the first week of April 2013, while at the Institute, Dr Whelan conducted an intensive five-day course aimed at advanced law students in Russia. Specifically, the course covered the fundamentals of English Contract Law and detailed how EU Competition Law (in particular Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European...

Dr Peter Whelan and Dr Pinar Akman, both of whom lecture at UEA Law School, were invited to and attended the ‘Antitrust Marathon’ which was held at the Italian Competition Authority in Rome on 18 March 2013. Dr Whelan chaired a panel session dedicated to the discussion of criminal enforcement of competition law. He also contributed to the panel discussion on the use of private enforcement of competition law. He argued that, for various reasons, public enforcement is far superior to...

Law students from the University of East Anglia have been shortlisted for two National Awards celebrating their volunteer work with the local community . The university is one of six institutions shortlisted in the category of best contribution by a team of students for its Street Law project, in the annual LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards. Final year law student Naomi Newell is also among eight finalists for best contribution by an individual student. The awards...