Peter Seipel - CV

Biografi

Academic Degrees

Academic Positions

Selected other positions and work

Academic Degrees

• Candidate of Philosopy 1961
• Candidate of Law 1966
• Master of Law 1971
• Doctor of Law 1977

Academic Positions

• Faculty of Law, Stockholm University:
• Research associate in private law, 1968 - 1971
• Research fellow in private law 1972 - 1977
• Assistant professor of law and informatics 1978 - 1982
• Professor of law and informatics 1982 - *

Selected other positions and work

• Director (and co-founder) of the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, 1968 -

• Co-founder (1981) and first chairman of the Swedish Society for Computers and Law.

• Engaged as expert by the Swedish Joint Committee for the Juridicary Information System on various occasions since 1968 (selected reports "Project Index. An analysis of indexes to Swedish legal materials", 1976, and "Electronic Legal Information", 1986, both in Swedish)

• Survey of computer law for the Government's Data Coordination Committee (report "Computers and Law. A Problem Survey", Ds Fi 1975:3, in Swedish)

• Engaged as expert by the World Intellectual Property Organisation in 1975 and 1976 to assist in preparing proposals for intellectual property protection of computer programs.

• Engaged as expert  by the OECD to assist in preparing guidelines for transborder flows of personal data 1978-79

• Member of the Board of the Swedish Delegation for Scientific and Technical Information (DFI, Ministry of Education) 1985-1988.

• Engaged by the Swedish Ministry of Justice to prepare reports on access laws and information technology 1986 - 1988 (see reports cited below).

• Chairman of the Council of Europe's expert group on teaching, training and research in the field of computers and law, 1989-92.

• Chairman of the Board of the Swedish Foundation for Legal Information since its creation in 1989. The Foundation has been set up by among others the Swedish Parliament, The Ministry of Justice, the Swedish Bar Association, the Swedish Employers' Federation, and the Legal Service of the Swedish Federation of Labour.

• Visiting scholar and Charles Green guest lecturer at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law 1993 (cf. "The Technology of Insight. Computers and Informed Citizens", Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 69 (1993) No. 2).

• Chairman of the Committee on the social consequences of information technology of the Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences 1993-1995.

• Chairman of the Committee on Library and Information Sciences of the National Research Coordination Council 1993 - 1995.

• Member of the European Union, DG XIII, Legal Advisory Board (LAB) since July 1994.

• Member of the Swedish Co-ordinating Group for the IMPACT-program (information market policy actions) of the European Union 1994-95.

• Member of the Information Technology Commission of the Swedish Government since its creation in 1994. Chairman of the IT-law Observatory of the Commission since 1996. Vice chairman of the Commission since 1998.

• Vice Dean and Head of the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University 1994 - 1996.

• Dean of the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University 1996 - 1999, 2003 -