Julia Hörnle LLB (Leeds), Solicitor

Julia Hörnle joined CCLS in May 2000 and is a Lecturer in Internet Law. She studied law and Russian language at the universities of Göttingen and Leeds (1991-1995) and for the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Chester (1996-1997). In 1995-1996 she taught German language courses at the University of St Petersburg and gained a postgraduate diploma in European law at the College of Europe at the University of Hamburg. She trained with the law firm of Eversheds, qualifying as a solicitor in 1999 and practised in their London and Brussels Offices. Julia is a German national and speaks fluent German, English and French and some Russian.

Julia is responsible for and teaches on the University of London LLM Internet Law course. She has created and taught courses for our innovative distance learning LLM in Computer and Communications Law, one module on 'Jurisdiction and applicable law' and one module on 'Online dispute resolution'. Julia also teaches a course on e-commerce law for the British Council funded European Young Lawyers Scheme for the College of Law. She is a regular contributor of case reviews and articles to Electronic Business Law (Lexis-Nexis Butterworths). Julia has recently completed a research project on marketing to children, funded by the Office of the Information Commissioner and Lexis-Nexis. This has resulted in a Research Report 'Marketing to Children & the Internet: Data Collection from Children by Website Operators'. She was also involved in the European Commission funded ECLIP research project in 2000-2001.

Julia is a member of the UNECE expert group on Online Dispute Resolution and has organised a symposium in London with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators on the use of ICT in dispute resolution in September 2004. She is studying towards a PhD in this area.

Research Interests

All legal aspects of e-commerce and the Internet, consumer protection issues, advertising regulation, regulatory issues on the Internet generally, jurisdiction and conflict of law issues in e-commerce, private international law, online dispute resolution and ADR, e-government, competition law and commercial law & EU law generally.

Publications Since 2001

Možnosti a perspektivy on-line rozhodčího řízení v České republice (Co-author with R. Polčák) [2005] 2 Právní Fórum 45-50, ISSN 1214-7966 [URL]

Kid Spenders: What the Law Should Do about Them (Co-author with J. Angel) [2004] 6(6) Electronic Business Law 6-8, [2005] 7(1) Electronic Business Law 10-12, [2005] 7(2) Electronic Business Law 10-12, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

Country of Origin Regulation in Cross-Border Media: One Step Beyond the Freedom to Provide Services? [2005] 54 International Comparative Law Quarterly 89-126, ISSN: 0020-5893 [URL]

Global Regulation of Internet Transactions, in S. Stokes and R. Carolins (Editors), Encyclopedia of E-commerce Law, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2004, 18-1 to 18-56, ISBN: 0421742607 [URL]

Online pharmacies: at the borderline of legality? [2004] 6 Electronic Business Law 6-9, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

The complexities of distance selling [2004] 6 Electronic Business Law 6-9, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

The UK Perspective on the Country of Origin Rule in the E-commerce Directive: A Rule of Administrative Law Applicable to Private Law Disputes? [2004] 12(3) International Journal of Law and Information Technology 333-363, ISSN 0967-0769 [URL]

Online Dispute Resolution, in J. Tackaberry and A. Marriott (Editors) Bernstein's Handbook of Arbitration Law & Practice, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2003, 781-835, ISBN: 0421757604 [URL]

Alternative Dispute Resolution in the European Union [2003] 5 Electronic Business Law, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

Online Dispute Resolution: the Emperor's New Clothes [2003] 17(1) International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 27-37, ISSN 1360-0869 [URL]

Directive 97/7/EC on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts (Co-author with G. Sutter and I. Walden) in A. Lodder and H. Kaspersen (Editors), eDirectives: Guide to European Union Law on E-commerce, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 11-31, ISBN: 9041117520 [URL]

Online Dispute Resolution in Business to Consumer E-commerce Transactions [2002] 7(2) Journal of Information, Law & Technology, ISSN: 1361-4169 [URL]

Competition and E-commerce [2002] 18(3) Computer Law and Security Report 155-163, ISSN: 0267-3649 [URL]

The European Extra-Judicial Network: Overcoming the Obstacles [2002] 7 Communications Law 143-145, ISSN: 1361-9918 [URL]

Competition and E-commerce [2002] 1 International Journal of Electronic Commerce Law and Policy 15-36, ISSN: 1468-9685

Internet Service Provider Liability: Let's (not) play piggy in the middle [2002] 7 Communications Law 85-88, ISSN: 1361-9918 [URL]

ISP liability: playing piggy in the middle [2002] 4 Electronic Business Law 11-12, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

E-commerce Law and Practice in Europe (Co-editor with I. Walden), Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2001, 686, ISBN: 1855735806 [URL]

Disputes Solved in Cyberspace and the Rule of Law [2001] 6(2) Journal of Information, Law & Technology, ISSN: 1361-4169 [URL]

Private International Law and E-finance: the European Perspective [2001] 8 Electronic Communication Law Review (formerly The EDI Law Review) 209-229, ISSN: 0929-2233 [URL]

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