Lighthouse Nordic School of Proactive Law Conference 2005: Fusing Best Business Practises with Legal Information Management and Technology

Presentation of Speakers

 

Jonathan Armstrong qualified as a solicitor in the UK in 1991. The 2005 Legal Experts Report again featured him as one of the UK’s leading experts in technology law. Jonathan’s practice is international and he currently serves on the ILPS Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association.
Jonathan is one of the co-authors of the LexisNexis definitive work on technology law ‘Managing Risk: Technology & Communications’ and a member of the Advisory Board of the Georgetown University Advanced Institute on Electronic Commerce, Washington DC.
Jonathan’s work includes counselling multinational companies on electronic corporate governance, online reputation and pan-European privacy policies. Clients include four Fortune 250 organisations. In April 2005 he was a keynote speaker at the ‘Policy and Practice in the EU Accession and New Member States’ conference in Sofia. He has contributed to the Law of Europe project at www.lawofeurope.info. Further information also at www.eversheds.com.  
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Mikael Dahlin, B.A., Senior archivist, is working for the Swedish Public Prosecutor’s Office as head of the Documentation department. Until recently working for AstraZeneca as Corporate Archivist. Active member in several archives and records management societies and in standardization groups. Teacher at University of Stockholm in Archival Science and electronic archiving/preservation.
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Edward A. Dauer is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Denver. He was the founder and first President of the National Center for Preventive Law (NCPL), an association of lawyers and business executives dedicated to the prevention and management of legal risk. Dean Dauer organized the first nation-wide effort to develop legal compliance principles in the wake of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s guidelines for business organizations, resulting in the widely-distributed NCPL Guidelines for Compliance Programs. Dauer is in addition a practicing attorney, having chaired the Preventive Law and Conflict Management section of a major national law firm. He is also an active arbitrator and mediator on the commercial panels of the American Arbitration Association and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He holds degrees from Brown University, the Yale Law School, and a masters in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University.
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Per Furberg, LL.M., Attorney at Law, Settewalls Law Firm, Sweden. Having worked within different Governmental committees from 1988 to 1997 with the task to consider IT related legal issues in different areas, e.g., civil law, procedural law, criminal law and administrative law, Per Furberg was appointed District Court Judge in Gothenburg in November 1997. Today, he works at Setterwalls, with IT related issues. Per Furberg has been a member of various international working groups. e.g., the OECD Group of Experts on Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems, the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Problems of Criminal Procedural Law Connected with Information Technology, and the Council Of Europe Committee of Experts on Crime in Cyperspace. He has also been Consulting Expert regarding IT related issues in different projects sponsored by the European Commission.
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Helena Haapio, Master of Laws, Master of Quality, works as Contract Coach with Lexpert Ltd (www.lexpert.com) based in Helsinki, Finland. She combines quality and risk management with Proactive Law to help clients build corporate capability and develop processes, tools, and systems for successful business contracting. Before founding Lexpert Ltd, she served for several years as In-house Counsel for Wärtsilä Group companies in Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. She has published and taught widely on ways to secure strong relationships and trouble-free transactions that produce predictable results and prevent problems. She is Page Leader for the International Trade web pages of the National Center for Preventive Law (www.preventivelawyer.org) and has initiated and currently is the Coordinator of IACCM Finland (International Association of Contract and Commercial Managers, www.iaccm.com). She also acts as arbitrator.
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Hjördis Halldorsdottir, LL.M., Attorney at Law, is a lawyer working for LOGOS - legal services (www.logos.is), in Reykjavik, Iceland, with Information Technology Law as well as Copyright as her major areas of practice. She is a member of the representatives board of the Copyright Association of Iceland and has been a teacher at the law faculty of the University of Iceland since 2001. In addition she has lectured and published articles, e.g., on such topics as e-mail surveillance in the private workplace, and on the liability of various players in the different P2P systems being used today.
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Niels Bo Jørgensen is a partner with Johan Schlüter law firm, one of Scandinavia's largest IP/IT specialised law firms. He is specialised within technology, entertainment and e-commerce law, acts as the general secretary of the Danish Internet Media Association (FDIM) and teaches "International e-commerce" at the Danish Technological University. Niels Bo Jørgensen has spoken at several international conferences and is the co-author of the book "Danish E-commerce Act with Comments".
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Anette Kavaleff, LL.Lic., has her own legal practise Oy Kavaleff Consulting Ab and works mainly with energy companies and organisations, providing them with legal assistance in matters relating to contracts, projects and transactions. She likes to work as a member of her clients’ in-house teams which enables a proactive legal approach. More information on www.kavaleffconsulting.com.
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Henrik Lando does research as a Professor of Law and Economics at the Center for Law, Economics and Financial Institutions (LEFIC), Copenhagen Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Copenhagen University. He has held appointments at Copenhagen University, and from 1994 at CBS. As a visiting scholar, he has visited UCLA (for the year1989-1990) and MIT (for 18 months, 1993-1994). He is at the executive board of the European Association of Law and Economics and serves as a Vice-Director of LEFIC, see http://web.cbs.dk/centres/lefic/.
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Sari Lintumaa started her career as a risk management consultant with Risk Management Ltd. in the early 1990s. She then worked with Industrial Insurance Company Ltd. as a leading expert in the field of legal risk management, helping client companies to manage their legal risks in e.g., international sales, product liability, employer’s liability and liability insurance. She has developed new risk assessment methods and published several articles and book chapters on contractual risk management, employment practices liability and new legal risk areas. She is also an experienced conference speaker.
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Nicklas Lundblad, LL.M. and B.A. in philosophy and literature, is vice president of new technology policy at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the second section of the e-Europe Steering Group, and has participated in a number of European Union expert groups. He is also active in the EBITT-commission in the International Chamber of Commerce, as well as a board member of the World Internet Institute in Sweden and ADBJ - the national Swedish organisation for IT and Law. He is also a Ph.D. Student in informatics working with a research project on the different aspects of technology impact on law. Mr Lundblad has authored two books on information technology, law and society and is a frequent contributor and columnist in a number of Swedish newspapers and magazines.
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Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL.D., Professor of Law and Informatics, The Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Research Fellow. She has had more than 20 years of practical experience of developing and using IT-based legal information systems, including the public and the private sector as well as participation in EU-projects. Her major current research project investigates the possibilities of cross-fertilisation of methods for security enhancement and applications of information standards in the legal domain. More information about the SLIM Project (Secure Legal Information Management) is found on www.juridicum.su.se/slim/. See also the general homepage: www.juridicum.su.se/cema/.
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Jarl S Magnusson is currently employed by Det Norske Veritas as a Senior Executive of Business Development on Information Quality and Information Governance. He has been in this position since October 2004, after 18 years of Government Service.
  Mr. Magnusson retired from the Swedish Defense as the Strategic Specialist for Information Resource Management. Prior to this Senior Executive position he had a number of leadership roles for the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), such as Executive Technical Fellow for the Information Systems Directorate (INFOSYST), founder and first Director of the Infology Division, and founder and first Director for FMV’s CALS Office.
  Mr. Magnusson is the Chair for the Information Quality Management Network (IQMnet) and he is serving as a Board Member to a number of highly visible organizations and initiatives. Mr. Magnusson is author and co-author of five books on data- and information resources and has published a number of articles. Mr. Magnusson is a well-known speaker at national and international events and he is the first non-American to be honored as a NDIA recipient of the prestigious "CALS Meritorious Service Award".
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Thomas Myhr is senior advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry (Nærings- og handelsdepartementet). Thomas was project leader of the "eRegelprosjektet", a project aimed at identifying and removing obstacles to electronic communication in the Norwegian legal framework (i.e., laws, regulations, etc.). He was involved in the implementation of the Electronic Signatures Directive and the E-Commerce Directive in Norwegian law.
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Anna Nordén, LL.M., VP Legal and Regulatory Affairs, TrustWeaver AB. Anna has worked internationally in the field of e-commerce and information security at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She is a board member of the Swedish Society for Computers and Law and lectures in IT law at Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
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Carolyn Paris (J.D., Stanford Law School 1978; M.B.A., Columbia Business School 2001; Second Majors Program, Computer Science, Columbia University 2002) practiced finance and corporate law in New York City (and Singapore) from 1978-1999, where she was a partner at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1989-1998. She is the author of How to Draft for Corporate Finance (Practising Law Institute, New York City, 2000). She has worked extensively in knowledge and risk management for the legal profession and in contract management, including in the development of supporting information technology implementations. She is currently Director of Professional Systems for Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, an international law firm, and is based in London.
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Soile Pohjonen, Postdoctoral Researcher (Academy of Finland), Docent in Comparative Law and General Jurisprudence, Trained on the Bench. She is the editor of a book on Proactive Contracting in Finnish. Besides proactive contracting and proactive law she has written about couple and business relationships, contracting, mediation, violence against women, human rights and feminist jurisprudence. She has introduced interaction skills for lawyers into her faculty courses. She has worked as a practising lawyer and a judge. Her main interests are the understandings, world views, and human images behind legal thinking and at present especially the relationship between the logic of law and dialogue. She can be contacted at soile.pohjonen@helsinki.fi. (Homepage at http://www.helsinki.fi/oik/tdk/henkilokunta/pohjonen/)
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Christina Ramberg, LL.D., Professor of Commercial Law, Göteborg University Sweden, has written extensively about contract law, sales law and e-commerce law. She was for many years Head of the Swedish Delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Electronic Commerce and is presently a member of the Coordinating Committee in the Study Group for a European Civil Code.
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Rolf Riisnæs, doctoral research scholar. Research Center for Computers & Law, University of Oslo, Norway. Riisnæs is doing research on 'Digital Certificates and Certification Services' at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), University of Oslo. He has been working with e-business, certification services, electronic signatures and other IT-law issues for more than ten years, as a researcher at the NRCCL and as attorney at law with Wikborg, Rein & Co in Oslo.
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Fredrik Roos, LL.M., Attorney at Law, Settewalls Law Firm, Sweden. Fredrik Roos is an associate working at the Gothenburg office of Setterwalls. He specializes in IT-law and Intellectual Property law, and advises clients on matters regarding e.g., electronic commerce, electronic money, electronic signatures, data protection, licensing, trademarks and web¬ publishing. He has a background as a researcher at the Department of Informatics at Gothenburg University where his area of research was "Control of Information in an Online Environment". He has published several articles and is a speaker at conferences on these topics. He has also taught IT-law at several Swedish universities.
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Eric M. Runesson is partner of the Swedish law firm Sandart & Partners. His practice is focused on contract management, arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. He works part time as professor adjunct in Lund University and is also chairman of the Mediation Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
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Babak Sadighi is a senior researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science where he is leading the Policy Based Reasoning Group. The group is mainly focusing on research and development on decentralized privilege management, and contract and service level agreement management for highly distributed and dynamic environments. Babak's own research is on formal specification languages for rights and obligations and reasoning about these concepts. Babak is currently completing his Ph.D. studies at Imperial College, London.
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Dag Wiese Schartum is professor, dr. of law and head of the Section for Information Technology and Administrative Systems (SITAS) at the University of Oslo. Main research and scientific publications are within the areas of automated decision-making in public administration, data protection and access to government-held information.
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Peter Seipel is Professor of legal informatics at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. His thesis, “Computing Law. Perspectives on a New Legal Discipline” (1977), discusses basic issues of the interaction of law and information technology and their place in legal science and legal education. Since 1968 he is the director of the Swedish Research Institute for Law and Informatics. He is Dean of the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University (1996-1999, 2003-). Recently published works by Seipel include Law and Information Technology (8th ed. 2004, in Swedish), Law and Information Technology. Swedish Views (Swedish Government Official Reports 2002:112, editor), and The Changing Faces of Legal Informatics. In: Informatik-Wirtschaft-Recht. Regulierung in der Wissensgesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2004. (Festschrift für Wolfgang Kilian.)
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Anders W. Tell is a consultant specialised in enterprise information system architectures and business collaborations from an integrated point of view. Assignments range from project mgmt, senior advisory roles for bank, finance, government sectors to research project reviews for the EU Commission. He is currently involved in standardisation in relation to eCommerce and trade facilitation, primarily UN/CEFACT. This as a Swedish delegate. Anders W. Tell currently holds management positions in UN/CEFACT such as vice-chair of the Techniques and Methodologies Group, chair of UN/CEFACT Architecture Group, vice-chair of Modelers Reference Initiative (MRI) and is the project team leader for the Unified Business Agreement and Contract project (UBAC) of TMG and Legal Group of UN/CEFACT. Anders W. Tell is a member of or invited expert in industry organisations such as OASIS and W3C. Previous standardisation activities include Network Management Forum and OMG.
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Jan Trzaskowski is doing research on ‘Legal Risk Management in Cross-Border Electronic Commerce’ at the Law Department of Copenhagen Business School. Jan has dealt with IT law for many years and has previously held positions within this area at the Danish Ministry of Business and Industry and at a Copenhagen-based law firm with focus on technology law. Jan is a member of the Danish IT Society's advisory board on IT & Law and the Business School's IT Law Research Group. www.legalriskmanagement.com.
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Mats Vikström, CSC Nordic Manager Industry Solutions, GTS, Sweden. CSC is a global enterprise acting in the outsourcing segment of the IT industry. He is responsible for security services in relation to all outsourcing activities CSC is engaged in the EMEA region. As a security service provider supporting multinational organisations, the diverse security requirements originating from local country legislation and implementation principles is an ever-evolving challenge. Mr Vikström is actively working to harmonise the technical support to legislative requirements in the information security domain. More info can be found at www.csc.com/solutions/security/.
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Emily M. Weitzenböck, LL.M. (Southampton), LL.D. (Malta), is currently a doctoral research scholar at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers & Law (NRCCL), Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (www.jus.uio.no/iri/), investigating the legal issues related to dynamic networked organisations. She also lectures in E-Commerce Law within the Master of Laws programme at the NRCCL. She was admitted to the Bar in Malta in 1994 and between 1994 and 1998 was a member of Mamo TCV Advocates in Malta where she assisted both local and foreign clients with IT law matters. From 1999-2003, she was responsible for the management of, and coordinated research in a number of research projects at the NRCCL funded by the European Commission: MARVIN, ECLIP and ALIVE. Her research interests include legal issues related to virtual organizations, electronic agents, trust and contract law.
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