IFCLA is very proud to announce that besides more than 40 top speakers who will provide the attendees with a cutting-edge overview of the last new developments in IT law and the IT sector it has also been able to attract two top keynote speakers for its bi-annual conference which will take place on 5 and 6 June in the Hilton Hotel in Antwerp.
On 5 June 2014 Professor Marsden will give a keynote speech entitled "Open access to the Internet, and to the law"? Net neutrality has evolved in the past 4 months from a regulatory edict that was overcome by the US Appeal Court 14 January 2014 decision in Verizon v. FCC 740 F.3d 623 (2014), to a strong European law passed at First Reading by the outgoing Parliament on 3 April 2014. Chris Marsden is author of the first legal research treatise on the subject Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution (January 2010, 2nd edition due 2016) and advisor to several governments and international organisations on net neutrality. He will explain what is in the new European law, contrast it with the FCC regulatory proceedings and case law, and identify a solution to the legislative and regulatory logjams on both sides of the Atlantic. The solution needs to both satisfy consumer advocates that access to the open Internet will constantly increase in quality, as well as satisfying service provider demands for adequate incentives to invest in high-speed lanes, known as ‘Specialised Services'. He will also speak about open access to the law. There is a strong connection between open access to the Internet and to the law. Without an adequate Internet connection in the office, at home and on the move, it does not matter how good a legal app is. Marsden will analyse the increasing tendency towards providing wider access to legislation, case law and commentary by governments, publishers and law firms. His analysis of open access to law is based on his forthcoming article in Computers & Law, and forms part of a two-year ongoing multinational research project.
Chris Marsden is Professor of Internet Law at the University of Sussex. He has also taught on LLMs at Essex, Oxford, Warwick, LSE, Monash. He is author of four monographs on Internet law: "Regulating Code" (2013, MIT Press with Ian Brown), "Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution" (2010, Bloomsbury), "Internet Co-regulation" (2011, Cambridge), and "Codifying Cyberspace" (Routledge 2007). He is also author-editor of the interdisciplinary Internet policy books "Regulating the Global Information Society" (Routledge 2000), and "Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation" (Blackstone/OUP 1999). He is author of many refereed articles, book chapters, professional articles, keynote addresses, and other scholarly contributions. He has been research fellow at Cambridge, Harvard, Melbourne, and Keio (Japan). He advises governments, human rights organisations and others and frequently is quoted in the media.
On 6 June 2014 Mr Troels Oerting Joergensen will give a keynote speech about the threats of cybercrime in Europe and the challenges, tasks and achievements of the European Cybercrime Centre.
Assistant Director Troels Oerting is Head of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which under his leadership was established by the EU Commission, 28 Member States and the European Parliament on 1 January 2013 by which date it launched activities. EC3, as part of EUROPOL, has the task to assist EU member states law enforcement authorities in - primarily: developing criminal intelligence, capacity building, awareness, protection of EU critical infrastructure, forensic support, coordination, investigation, R&D, creating strategic and operational direction and initiate all relevant measures that will help securing a free, transparent but also safe Internet now, and in the future. Assistant Director Oerting is also, ad interim, Head of Europol's Counter Terrorist and Financial Intelligence Centre. Before joining Europol in 2009 Mr. Oerting was a senior officer in the Danish National Police with more than 30 years' experience during which he have held positions as Director of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), Director of the National Crime Squad, Director of the Danish equivalent to the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) and Director of Operations in the Danish Security Intelligence Service. He has also been Head of NCB Copenhagen, Head of Europol National Unit and DK delegate in the Baltic Sea Task Force, Europol's Management Board and numerous other International Law Enforcement cooperation entities.
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