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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