The University of Southampton has launched the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton (ILAWS). From the site:

ILAWS , the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton, was founded in 2006 to work on the legal issues, problems and opportunities associated with the Internet, the Web and digital technology. ILAWS is a unique interdisciplinary research centre that combines legal expertise in key domains such as information technology law, e-commerce, IT law and public policy, and intellectual property law. The Institute combines a brief to look at the crucial current issues for commerce and government, alongside cutting-edge “future-gazing” to discover what the legal issues of the future will be.

The three principal law faculty are Lilian Edwards, formerly of Edinburgh now of Southampton, Caroline Wilson, and Stephen Saxby. PhD students at ILAWS include Yue Yue Wang, whom I know through her time at Edinburgh, and Hiroko Onishi, whom I met at BILETA 2007. ILAWS is also partnered with another Southampton institution:

Southampton University also boasts the Web Science Research Initiative , a joint enterprise with MIT, lead by Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt of Computing Science at Southampton, who are also Associates of ILAWS; and Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the web. ILAWS is working closely with the WSRI and thus has the remarkable opportunity to participate in the creation and regulation of “Web 2.0”, and perhaps, “Law 2.0”?

The University of Southampton, besides offering undergraduate LLB courses, offers an LLM in Information Technology and Commerce.

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