Ian Walden BA (Nott), MA (Virginia), PhD (Nott Trent)

Dr Ian Walden is Professor of Information and Communications Law and head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London ( www.ccls.edu ). His publications include EDI and the Law (1989), Information Technology and the Law (1990), EDI Audit and Control (1993), Cross-border Electronic Banking (1995, 2000), Telecommunications Law Handbook (1997), E-Commerce Law and Practice in Europe (2001), Telecommunications Law and Regulation (2001, 2005) and Computer Crimes and Digital Investigations (2007). Ian has been involved in law reform projects for the World Bank, the European Commission, UNCTAD, UNECE and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, as well as for a number of individual states. In 1995-96, Ian was seconded to the European Commission, as a National Expert in electronic commerce law, and he is a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission. Ian has held visiting positions at the Universities of Texas and Melbourne. Ian is a solicitor and is Of Counsel to the global law firm Baker & McKenzie ( www.bakernet.com) and is a Trustee and Vice-Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation ( www.iwf.org.uk ).

Research Interests

Ian Walden's current research projects are in the fields of computer crime, freedom of information and communications law

Publications Since 2001

Telecommunications Law and Regulation, 2ed, (Co-editor with J. Angel), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 731, ISBN: 0199274479 [URL]

Telecommunications Law and Regulation: An Introduction, in I. Walden and J. Angel (Editors), Telecommunications Law and Regulation, 2ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 3-22, ISBN: 0199274479 [URL]

European Union Communications Law, in I. Walden and J. Angel (Editors), Telecommunications Law and Regulation, 2ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 107-149, ISBN: 0199274479 [URL]

The International Regulatory Regime, in I. Walden and J. Angel (Editors), Telecommunications Law and Regulation, 2ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 463-500, ISBN: 0199274479 [URL]

Crime and Security on Cyberspace [2005] 18(1) Cambridge Review of International Affairs 51-68, ISSN: 0955-7571 [URL]

Accessing public information [2005] 7 Electronic Business Law 8-10, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

Protecting Privacy Rights in an Online World, in E-Commerce and Development Report 2004, Geneva: UNCTAD, 2004, 155-177, ISBN: 9211126533 [URL]

Harmonising Computer Crime Laws in Europe [2004] 12(4) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 321-336, ISSN: 0928-9569 [URL]

Forensic Investigations in Cyberspace for Civil Proceedings [2004] 18(2) International Review of Law Computers and Technology 275-287, ISSN: 1360-0869 [URL]

Computer Crime, in C. Reed and J. Angel (Editors), Computer Law, 5ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 295-329, ISBN: 0199263507 [URL]

Data Protection, in C. Reed and J. Angel (Editors), Computer Law, 5ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 417-454, ISBN: 0199263507 [URL]

Addressing the Data Problem [2003] 8(2) Information Security Technical Report 18-31, ISSN: 1363-4127 [URL]

Retaining and Accessing Communications Data [2003] 8 Tolley's Communications Law 220-224, ISSN: 1361-9918 [URL]

Directive 97/7/EC on the Protection of Consumers in Respect of Distance Contracts, in A. Lodder and H. Kaspersen (Editors), eDirectives: Guide to European Law on E-Commerce, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 11-31, ISBN: 9041117520 [URL]

Honeypots: A Sticky Legal Landscape (Co-author with A. Flanagan) [2003] 29 Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal 317-370, ISSN: 0735-8938 [URL]

Anonymising Personal Data [2002] 9(2) International Journal of Law and Information Technology 224-237, ISSN: 0967-0769 [URL]

Telecommunications Law and Regulation, Oxford: Blackstone Press, 2001, 578, ISBN: 1841741213 [URL]

E-Commerce Law and Practice in Europe (Co-editor with J. Hörnle), Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2001, ISBN: 1855735806 [URL]

Regulating Electronic Commerce: Europe in the Global E-conomy, [2001] 26 European Law Review 529-547, ISSN: 0307-5400 [URL]

Balancing Rights: Surveillance and Data Protection [2001] 3(11) Electronic Business Law 10-12, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

Other Selected Publications

Cross-Border Electronic Banking, 2ed, (Co-editor with C. Reed and L. Edgar), London: Lloyd's of London Press, 2000, ISBN: 1859785557 [URL]

Telecommunications, in Halsbury's Laws of England, Volume 45(1) Telecommunications and Broadcasting, 4ed (reissue), London: Butterworths, 1999, 6-164, ISBN: 0406921091 [URL]

Telecommunications Law Handbook (Co-editor with J. Angel), London: Blackstone Press, 1997, ISBN: 1854315951 [URL]

Information Technology and the Law, 2ed, (Co-editor with C. Edwards and N. Savage), London: Macmillan, 1990, ISBN: 0333531507 [URL]

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