Background Information about Dr

Background Information about Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, LL.B., MA, Ph.D

Experience

CyberLaw Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds, Lecturer in Law (February 2001 -).

Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) (http://www.cyber-rights.org), Founder and director. A non-profit civil liberties organisation (January 1997 - present). Gave oral evidence in front of a Trade and Industry Select Committee on Electronic Commerce Inquiry at the House of Commons, March 9, 1999, following the submission of the Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Memorandum to the House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee, February 1999. Representative to the OECD Ministerial Conference, "A Borderless World: Electronic Commerce," in Ottawa, Canada, October 7-9, 1998. Issued series of reports on cyber-censorship and privacy (see http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports). Made submissions to various government departments (including in Ireland and at European Union level). Written a number of Global Internet Liberty Campaign Member Statements. Spoke at various conferences including three Freedom Forum events (London, Washington DC, and Geneva). More recently chaired a session on Free Speech and Cyber-Censorship at the CFP99 conference in Washington DC. Handled press inquiries on a daily basis and quoted extensively in relation to Internet related issues by the national and international press.

University of Leeds, CyberLaw Research Unit, within the Faculty of Law and teaches part-time in the CyberLaw: Information Technology, Law and Society course (1997-98, 1998-99), Introduction to Study of Law (Part-time Education Undergraduate Degree Programme, 1998-99).

"UK Law Online: The UK Legal System on the Internet," (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/hamlyn) project completed together with Professor Clive Walker, sponsored by the Hamlyn Trust Fund. The main object of the project is the raising of public awareness, appreciation and understanding of the UK Legal System by use of the medium of the Internet. The objective was to create a series of world wide web pages which may be compared to a basic UK Legal System text-book but is distinguished by the medium being used. This allowed us to convey our messages in accessible, alluring and attractive formats.

Education:

Ph.D, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds.
January 1997 to November 2002. Awarded Scholarship. Thesis title: The Governance of the Internet in Europe with Special Reference to Turkey and United Kingdom.

MA Research at the Faculty of Law, University of Leeds.
October 1995 to October 1996. Awarded scholarship.
Thesis title: The Internet: Legal Implications for Free Speech and Privacy.

University of Leeds
Bachelor of Laws with Honours, Class II Division (i) in Law, July 1995.
(Admitted into final year LLB (Hons) degree as an EU student)
Erasmus Student From: October 1993 - June 1994. Awarded scholarship.

University of Ferrara, Faculty of Law, Italy.
September 1987- July 1993: Roman Law, Statistics, Political Economy, Italian Constitutional Law, Private Civil Law, International Law, Finance Law, Economic History, Labour Law, Banking Law, Commercial Law, EC Agricultural Law, Public Economic Law.

HIGH SCHOOL: Kadikoy Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul - Turkey.
Attended: September 1979-June 1986.

Academic Publications March 2005

“Who Watches the Watchmen? The Role of Filtering Software in Internet Content Regulation,” in Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (“OSCE”) Representative on Freedom of the Media eds, The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook, Vienna: Austria, 2004, pp 101-125.
Internet Governance: Towards the modernization of policy making process in Turkey, Turkish Informatics Society, Istanbul: Papatya Yayincilik, September 2003, ISBN 975-6797-44-4 (A separate version in Turkish is also available, please contact).
Internet Governance, and Freedom in Turkey, in Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (“OSCE”) Representative on Freedom of the Media eds, Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 answers to 4 questions, Reflections on Freedom of the Media and the Internet, pp 29-43, Vienna, 2003.
An Advocacy Handbook for the Non Governmental Organisations: The Council of Europe’s Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and the additional protocol on the criminalisation of acts of a racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties, December 2003.
CyberCrime, chapter in E-Commerce Law and Regulation Encyclopedia, Sweet & Maxwell, December 2003.
Walker, C., & Akdeniz, Y., "Anti-Terrorism laws and data retention: war is over?" (2003) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 54(2), Summer, 159-182.
Case Report: Court of Appeal Clarifies the Law on Downloading Child Pornography from the Web, Computer Law & Security Report Vol. 18 No. 6 2002, pp 433-435.
Akdeniz, Y., & Bell, J., "La vie privée et l’Internet: Perspectives du Royaume-Uni," in Tabatoni, P. (ed), La protection de la vie privée dans la société d’information: Tomes 3, 4 et 5 : L'impact des systèmes électroniques d'information, Paris: Presses Universitaries de France, 2002, pp 151-160.
Akdeniz, Y., "Controlling Illegal and Harmful Content on the Internet," in Wall, D.S. (eds) Crime and the Internet, London: Routledge, November 2001, pp 113-140.
Akdeniz, Y., Case Analysis of (the Yahoo case) League Against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA), French Union of Jewish Students, v Yahoo! Inc. (USA), Yahoo France, Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (The County Court of Paris), Interim Court Order, 20 November, 2000. Citation: [2001] Electronic Business Law Reports, 1(3) 110-120.
Akdeniz, Y., "Governing pornography and child pornography on the Internet: The UK Approach," in Cyber-Rights, Protection, and Markets: A Symposium, (2001) University of West Los Angeles Law Review, 247-275. This is an updated version of an earlier piece: Akdeniz, Y., ‘Governance of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Global Internet: A Multi-Layered Approach,’ in Edwards, L and Waelde, C eds., Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace, Hart Publishing, 1997, pp 223-241.
Akdeniz, Y., "UK Government and the Control of Internet Content," (2001) The Computer Law and Security Report 17(5), pp 303-318.
Akdeniz, Y.; Taylor, N.; Walker, C., Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (1): Bigbrother.gov.uk: State surveillance in the age of information and rights, (2001) Criminal Law Review, (February), pp. 73-90 at http://www.cyber-rights.org/documents/crimlr.pdf (Published in this format with permission from Sweet & Maxwell, the publishers of the Criminal Law Review)
OUT NOW: Akdeniz, Y, Walker, C., Wall, D., (eds), Internet, Law, and Society, Addison Wesley Longman, December 2000. For further information see http://www.cyber-rights.org/bookstore/ and see also the book website at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/cyberlaw/longmans.htm
Akdeniz, Y., & Strossen, N., "Sexually Oriented Expression," in Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C., &, Wall, D., (eds), The Internet, Law and Society, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, pp 207-231.
Akdeniz, Y., & Rogers, W.R.H., "Defamation on the Internet," in Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C., &, Wall, D., (eds), The Internet, Law and Society, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, pp 294-317.
"Child Pornography," in Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C., &, Wall, D., (eds), The Internet, Law and Society, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, 231-249.
Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C., "Whisper Who Dares: Encryption, privacy rights and the new world order," in Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C., &, Wall, D., (eds), The Internet, Law and Society, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, 317-349.
Akdeniz, Y., "Policing the Internet: Regulation and censorship," chapter in Gibson, R, & Ward, S., (eds), Reinvigorating Democracy? British Politics and the Internet, Ashgate, 2000, 169-188.
Yaman Akdeniz, "New Privacy Concerns: ISPs, Crime Prevention and Consumers' Rights," (2000) International Review of Law Computers & Technology, 14 (1), 55-61.
Yaman Akdeniz , Sex on the Net: The Dilemma of Policing Cyberspace, Reading: South Street Press, Summer 1999.
Akdeniz, Y., "The Regulation of Internet Content in Europe: Governmental Control vs. Self-Responsibility," (1999) Swiss Political Science Review, 5(2), 123-131, at http://www.ib.ethz.ch/spsr/debates/debat_net/art-2-2.html
Akdeniz, Y., "Case Analysis: Laurence Godfrey v. Demon Internet Limited," (1999) Journal of Civil Liberties, 4(2), 260-267 (July). An online version is at http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/demon.htm
Akdeniz, Y., Bohm, N., & Walker, C., "Internet Privacy: Cyber-Crimes vs Cyber-Rights," (1999) Computers & Law, (10) 1, April/May, at http://www.scl.org/members/emagazine/vol10/iss1/vol10-iss1-akdeniz-bohm-walker-art.htm. If a username and password is required then try sclonline for both.
Akdeniz, Y., Bohm, N., & Walker, C., "Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Response to the March 1999 DTI Paper: Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce - A Consultation Document," (1999) The Source Public Management Journal, 22 April, at http://www.thesourcepublishing.co.uk/articles/a00227.html
Akdeniz, Y., & Bohm, N., "Internet Privacy: New Concerns about Cyber-Crime and the Rule of Law," (1999) Information Technology & Communications Law Journal (5) 20-24.
Akdeniz Y, 'The Public Voice in the Development of Internet Policy: Proceedings from Ottawa Global Internet Liberty Campaign Conference, October 1998', Conference Report, 1999 (1) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT). http://www.law.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/99-1/akdeniz.html
Bowden, C., & Akdeniz, Y., "Cryptography and Democracy: Dilemmas of Freedom," in Liberty eds., Liberating Cyberspace: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and the Internet, London: Pluto Press, 1999, 81-125.
Walker, CP, & Akdeniz, Y., "The governance of the Internet in Europe with special reference to illegal and harmful content," [1998] Criminal Law Review, December Special Edition: Crime, Criminal Justice and the Internet, pp 5-19. Click here for For ordering this special issue.
Ellison, L., & Akdeniz, Y., "Cyber-stalking: the Regulation of Harassment on the Internet," [1998] Criminal Law Review, December Special Edition: Crime, Criminal Justice and the Internet, pp 29-48. Click here for For ordering this special issue
Walker, C., & Akdeniz, Y., "UK Law Online: the legal system on the Internet," Amicus Curiae 1998, 11(Oct), 6-7.
Walker, C.P, & Akdeniz, Y., "Virtual Democracy," [1998] Public Law 489-506.
Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C.P., "UK Government Policy on Encryption: Trust is the Key?" (1998) Journal of Civil Liberties 110-116 (forthcoming - July).
Akdeniz, Y., "Child Pornography on the Internet," [1998] New Law Journal 148 (6833), 451-452.
Akdeniz, Y., "The European Union and illegal and harmful content on the Internet," (1998) Journal of Civil Liberties 3 (1), March, 31-36.
Akdeniz, Y., "Who Watches the Watchmen: Internet Content Rating Systems, and Privatised Censorship," (1998) The Australian Library Journal 47 (1), February. See http://www.alia.org.au/alj/47.1/internet.content.html
Akdeniz, Y., "Copyright and World Wide Web Link," (1998) IT & Communications Newsletter 1, February 1998, 29-32.
Akdeniz, Y., 'No Chance for Key Recovery: Encryption and International Principles of Human and Political Rights,' 1998 Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 1. Published in February 1998.
Akdeniz, Yaman (1997) ‘Governance of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Global Internet: A Multi-Layered Approach,’ in Edwards, L and Waelde, C eds., Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace, Hart Publishing, pp 223-241. For an updated version of this see: Akdeniz, Y., "Governing pornography and child pornography on the Internet: The UK Approach," (2001) University of West Los Angeles Law Review, 247-275.
Akdeniz, Y (1997) ‘Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace: Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution,’ International Review of Law Computers & Technology (Book Review).
‘The battle for the Communications Decency Act 1996 is over,’ [1997] New Law Journal 147 (6799), page 1003.
‘Copyright and the Internet,’ [1997] New Law Journal 147 (6798), pages 965, 966.
Akdeniz Y et al, ‘Cryptography and Liberty: Can the Trusted Third Parties be Trusted? A Critique of the Recent UK Proposals,’ 1997 (2) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT).
‘To Link or Not to Link: Problems with World Wide Web Links on the Internet,’ [1997] Int. Review of Law, Comp. & Technology 11 (2), pp 281-298.
‘Cyberspace’ and ‘Online Service Providers as Censors,’ entries in ‘Censorship: An International Encyclopaedia,’ ed. Derek Jones, forthcoming (Fitzroy Dearborn - 1998).
‘UK Government Encryption Policy’, [1997] Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 1 (February).
‘The Regulation of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Internet,’ 1997 (1) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT).
"Computer Pornography: A Comparative Study of the US and UK Obscenity Laws and Child Pornography Laws in Relation to the Internet" [1996] 10 International Review of Law, Computers and Technology (2) 235 -263.
"Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990: an Antidote for Computer Viruses!" [1996] 3 Web Journal of Current Legal Issues.

Other Publications

Akdeniz, Y., "The case for free speech," The Guardian, (Online Section), 27 April, 2000, available through http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/freespeech/article/0,2763,212471,00.html
Akdeniz, Y., "Irish group advises self-regulation to combat Net abuses," Freedom Forum, July 14, 1998.
Akdeniz, Y., "Turkish teen convicted for Web postings," Freedom Forum, June 8, 1998.
Akdeniz, Y., "UK Encryption Wars," Wired News, May 25, 1998.
Akdeniz, Y., "What is wrong with Internet Rating Systems and Filtering Software," (1998) The Chronicle - changing Black Britain, June. See also the related piece entitled "Cyber-Patrols Threaten Internet Liberties" (not by YA).
Akdeniz, Y., "The European Union’s Approach to Governing Illegal and Harmful Content on the Internet," (1998) The CPSR Newsletter, 16(2), Spring, 12-14.
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Report, "Who Watches the Watchmen: Internet Content Rating Systems, and Privatised Censorship," Nov. 1997.
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Report: "Who Watches the Watchmen: Part II - Accountability & Effective Self-Regulation in the Information Age," September 1998.
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Report on UK Encryption Policy: "A Reply to the DTI Public Consultation Paper on Licensing of Trusted Third Parties For the Provision of Encryption Services," May 1997.
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Submission on illegal and harmful content to the Irish Minister for Justice, July 1997.
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Member Statement, "New UK Encryption Policy criticised, February 1998."
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Member Statement, "The US Child Online Protection Act (‘CDAII’) Criticised," October 1998, (with David Sobel, EPIC).
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK), "Who Watches the Watchmen: Part III - ISP Capabilities for the Provision of Personal Information to the Police," February 1999, (with Nicholas Bohm).
Akdeniz, Y., Bohm, N., Walker, C., "Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Memorandum," to the House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee on Electronic Commerce Inquiry, February 1999. See further The House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry, "Report on Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce: The Government’s Proposals," HC 187, seventh report of session 1998-99, 19 May, 1999
Memorandum by the Members of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign to the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee on Electronic Commerce Inquiry, February 1999.
Akdeniz, Y., Bohm, N., Walker, C., "Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Response to the March 1999 DTI Paper: Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce - A Consultation Document," 1 April, 1999.

"Anonymity is essential to democracy and has been a vital tool for the preservation of political speech and discourse throughout history. As a concept it is closely related to free speech and to privacy. The Internet boom in the 1990s created new opportunities for communications and for discussion. Internet technology allows genuinely anonymous communication, and this can be used for many purposes; socially useful, but also criminal."

Yaman Akdeniz, Anonymous Now, Index on Censorship, The Privacy Issue, 2000 (3), June.
http://www.cyber-rights.org/documents/index_article.htm

Papers Presented and Conferences March 2005

UNESCO International Conference on Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace, Paris, France, 3-4 February 2005, invited speaker, and panelist: Freedom of expression, codes and creativity.
Safer use of the Internet hearing of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, European Parliament, invited expert and speaker, 11 October, 2004.
“Modernisation of the Turkish Policy Process and the role of the Regulatory Impact Assessment Exercises, The Prime Ministry,” invited speaker, Ankara, Turkey, 15 September, 2004.
Guaranteeing Freedom of the Media on the Internet Conference, invited expert and speaker, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (“OSCE”), The Representative on Freedom of the Media, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 27-28 August, 2004. “Who Watches the Watchmen? The role of self-regulation within the context of Internet content regulation” speech delivered.
Guaranteeing Freedom of the Media on the Internet Conference, invited expert and speaker, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (“OSCE”), The Representative on Freedom of the Media, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 27-28 August, 2004. “Hate Speech on the Marketplace of Ideas” panel chair.
Guaranteeing Freedom of the Media on the Internet: Seminar with Experts, invited expert, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (“OSCE”), The Representative on Freedom of the Media, Vienna, Austria, 30 June, 2004.
Training on Right to Information Law in Turkey, a 3 day training programme co-organised with the Faculty of Law and Human Rights Law Research Center, Istanbul Bilgi University in Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, Turkey, 4-6 June, 2004. Chair of the training programme and speaker.
CyberCrimes and Abusive Images: Recent Developments, and Future Directions, invited speaker, 5^th COPINE Conference: Psychological and Legal Issues of Internet Abuse Images - Conference on future directions, 24-26 May, 2004, Cork, Ireland.
A new beginning? The enactment of the Turkish Right to Information Act, invited keynote speaker, Press Council annual meeting, 17 April 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.
Civil Society representative, the World Bank Knowledge Economy Forum III, Budapest, Hungary, 23-26 March, 2004.
International Conference on the Right to Information in Turkey, conference co-organiser, Istanbul Bilgi University, 26 February, 2004, organised by Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Law and Human Rights Law Research Center, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), and Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties. Human Rights and the Right to Information panel chair.
Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Expression in the Digital Communications Environment, invited speaker, OSI Information Policy Programme Annual Meeting, 21 February, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.
Civil Society Participation to the policy making process of the Turkish Government in relation to the development of an Information Society in Turkey, invited speaker, OSI Information Policy Programme Annual Meeting, 19 February, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.
Internet Governance in Turkey: A Multi-layered Approach? Invited Speaker, 2003 Inet-TR: Internet in Turkey conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 December, 2003. Panelist, Problem of Internet SPAM and technical and regulatory challenges panel, 12 December, 2003.
Internet Governance and Freedom in Turkey, paper presented at the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Conference on Freedom of the Media and Internet and, 13-14 June, 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (invited speaker)
A critical assessment of the Council of Europe Cyber-Crime Convention, paper presented at the 21^st Century Digital Court, 28 May, 2003, the University of Leeds.
Communications Surveillance: Implications for Workplace Privacy, speech at the Data Protection/Freedom Of Information (Walker Morris) Conference, Leeds, 30 October, 2002.
The Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights: A critical assessment, paper presented at the Democracy, Freedom and the Internet: How Digital Technologies Empower or Undermine Civil Liberties Conference, European Parliament, Brussels, 10 July, 2002. The speech can be listened here.
Developing an International Legal Framework on Child Pornography on the Internet, paper presented, COPINE Conference 2002, University of Cork, Ireland, 18-19 April, 2002.
Regulation of child pornography on the Internet, paper to be presented, Child Pornography and the Internet conference, 18 September, 2001, Barbican Centre, London, organised by Arena Training (training@arena2.fsbusiness.co.uk)
Rights Undermined: A Critical Assessment of the CoE Cyber-Crime Convention, paper presented, SPTL Conference, Glasgow, 10-11 September, 2001.
Freedom of expression in the Information Age, paper presented, International Symposium on Freedom of Expression, organised by Association for Liberal Thinking and the European Commission, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-9 June, 2001.
Privacy and Surveillance in the Information Age, paper presented, No Star Wars: International Conference to Keep Space for Peace, University of Leeds, May 4-6, 2001.
Privacy, Anonymity, and Surveillance in the Information Age, paper presented, Privacy Conference, Central Eastern University, Budapest, Hungary, 22-23, March 2001.
Yaman Akdeniz appeared in front of the European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON interception system,
during the meeting of Thursday, 22 March, 2001, Brussels. Read the Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) statement submitted to the European Parliament. (pdf version with footnotes is also available) For further information about the Echelon interception system see http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/echelon/
Panelist for the E-media: An avenue for communication or cyber-crime? session during the United Nations Seminar for the Media on the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, Palermo, Italy, 13 December, 2000. This took place during the High-level Political Signing Conference for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 12-15 December, 2000. The paper presented is at http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/palermo.htm See also http://governo.it/odccp/interventi/interventi_13C_akdeniz.html

United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, Palermo, Italy, 12-15 December, 2000, hosted by the Italian Government, http://www.odccp.org/palermo/convmain.html

Yaman Akdeniz spoke at the Seminar for the Media on the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, Palazzo dei Normanni) within the E-media: An avenue for communication or cyber-crime? session. See also the Biographical notes on the participants for the UN Seminar.

See the press release First UN Treaty against Transnational Organized Crime Adopted by Assembly (16 November 2000)

Southampton Lecture: Defending Cyber-Rights, 1 December, 2000, 12:50pm, Physics A Lecture Room, University of Southampton.
VI. Internet in Turkey conference, Internet Privacy panel chair, 10 November, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey. For further information see http://inet-tr.org.tr/ NTVMSNBC Coverage (in Turkish) at http://www.ntvmsnbc.com.tr/news/43429.asp?cp1=1
E-Commerce and E-Tailing Law Conference: Security, Trust and Consumer Confidence in the Information Age, conference chair. Organised by LawTel, Central London, 17 October, 2000.
Cyber-Crimes vs Cyber-Rights: Developing policies in the workplace environment, paper to be presented, IQPC Protecting Your Business from Cyber Crime Conference, 28th & 29th September 2000, The Millennium Knightsbridge Hotel, London, (Presentation for Day 2 - 29 September, 2000).
Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C., Encryption and Policing in Cyberspace, paper presenteded, British Society of Criminology Conference 2000: Crimes of the Future: The Future(s) of Criminology, 5-7 July, 2000, Scarman Centre, University of Leicester.
Conference Chair, LAWTEL’s Data Protection 2000: A legal and practical guide since the implementation of the Data Protection Act 1998 Conference, 14 June, 2000, London.
Panelist, The Internet: extending press freedom? May 3, 2000, World Press Freedom Day, Article 19, the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom, Index on Censorship and the British National Union of Journalists debated the issues and more at the Cyberia Café, London. See for further information http://www.indexoncensorship.org/cyberia/index.html
Panelist and organiser, Beyond Control or Through the Looking Glass? Threats and Liberties in the Electronic Age, The Oxford Union Debating Chamber, 28 April, 2000 organised by Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford. See http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/control/picture.html and http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/freespeech/0,2759,212402,00.html
"Future of Internet Law and Policy in Turkey: Perspectives from Europe and the United States," paper presented, Internet and the Law Conference, 14 April, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey.
Akdeniz, Y., & Walker, C.P., "Whisper Who Dares: Encryption, Privacy Rights and the New World Disorder," paper presented, INET’99: The Internet Global Summit, San Jose, 22-25 June, 1999, at http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/3g/3g_3.htm. All INET99 papers are available through http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/
Computers, Freedom, & Privacy: The Next Millenium Conference (CFP99), organising committee, Washington D.C., 6-8 April, 1999. Panel chaired: Free Speech and Cyber-Censorship II. Paper submitted, "The Governance of Internet Content Regulation in Europe."
"Policing Child Pornography: Effective Law Enforcement," paper presented at the second COPINE (Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe) Conference to be held at the Royal Academy, Brussels, Belgium, on April 1-2, 1999.
CYBERSPACE 1999: Crime, Criminal Justice and the Internet, BILETA Conference, organising committee, College of Ripon and York, St John, Lord Mayor's Walk, York, 29-30 March 1999. "New Privacy Concerns: ISPs, crime prevention, and consumers’ rights," paper presented. Abstract: In November 1998, Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) developed a "privacy letter" to be sent from a subscriber to an ISP addressing concerns over privacy of communications through a UK ISP. The letter has been drafted from the consumers’ point of view and raises important issues in relation to ISP privacy policies. The privacy letter is partly developed as a response to the Association of Chief Police Officers ("ACPO"), the Internet Service Providers and the Government Forum’s initiatives in relation to developing "good practice guidelines" between Law Enforcement Agencies and the Internet Service Providers Industry describing what information can lawfully and reasonably be provided to Law Enforcement Agencies, and under what circumstances such information can be provided, and the procedures to be followed in such cases. The process initiated by the ACPO Forum has so far excluded the view of the concerned citizens and civil liberties organisations. This paper will provide an inside on the activities of the ACPO/ISPs/Government Forum and will argue that procedures can only be properly designed within a legal context which takes due account of individual rights and liberties. Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Privacy Letter together with letters exchanged between CR&CL(UK) and ISPA and ACPO/ISP/Government Forum about the privacy letter is at http://www.cyber-rights.org/privacy/response.htm
"The protection of privacy on the Internet: Cyber-crimes, ISPs, and individuals’ rights," speech held at the Internet Interest Group Meeting of the Society for Computers and Law: The Impact of the Data Protection Act on the Internet, Linklaters, London, 22 March, 1999.
Gave oral evidence in front of a Trade and Industry Select Committee on Electronic Commerce Inquiry at the House of Commons, March 9, 1999, following the submission of the Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Memorandum to the House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee, February 1999.
"Encryption and Privacy: The Global Policy Disorder," workshop held at the annual conference of European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research, E-Commerce and New Media: Managing Safety, Security and Malware Challenges Effectively, Aalborg, Denmark, 28 February to 2 March 1999.
CyberCensors: The development of Rating & Filtering Systems in Europe" paper presented as a panelist at the "Speech Online and Access" session of the "The Public Voice in the Development of Internet Policy Conference," organised by the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, October 7, 1998, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Attended as a NGO representative the OECD Ministerial Conference, "A Borderless World: Electronic Commerce," in Ottawa, Canada, October 7-9, 1998.
"European Union and Member States Approaches to Internet Content Regulation Panel," chair, at the "Outlook for Freedom, Privacy, and Civil Society on the Internet in Central and Eastern Europe," Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 4-6 September, 1998. "Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Participation on Internet Policy Making and Promoting Democracy Through the Net," paper presented at the same conference.
"The Governance of the Internet in Europe with Special Reference to Illegal and Harmful Content, " paper presented together with Professor Clive Walker at the Inet98 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 July 1998.
"European Governments and Control of Online Content," panelist at the Inet98 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 July 1998.
"The Role of NGOs in Developing Internet Policies: The Global Internet Liberty Campaign," panelist at the Inet98 Conference, 24 July, 1998.
Paper presented at the Freedom Forum event entitled, "Filters, PICS, the Internet and the First Amendment," Tuesday, June 9, 1998, Washington D.C. See "Net filters, First Amendment explored in June 9 conference," "Net policing misguided, panelists say," and also "Negotiating the Global Net Filter." --- Abstract of this speech is available here.
"A History of Content Regulation on the Internet," paper presented at the SLSA Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 1998.
"Control of Online Content," panelist at the Freedom Forum, European Center, London, February 25, 1998. An online coverage of the conference is available here.
'Internet Content Regulation,' paper presented at the JETAI 97 Conference, University of Glasgow, November 13, 1997.
‘Encryption and International Principles of Human and Political Rights,’ paper presented at the 8th Joint European Networking Conference, Edinburgh, 14 May 1997.
'Regulation of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Internet,' paper presented at the SLSA Conference, Cardiff - 2-4 April 1997.
'Computer Pornography,' seminar held at the Law Faculty, University of Leeds, 8 May, 1996.

Teaching (needs updating)

Full-time lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds, February 2001 - present, teaching Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Media and Rights (PG), Cyber-Law and Cyber-Crimes.
A member of the CyberLaw Research Unit within the Faculty of Law and teaches part-time in the CyberLaw: Information Technology, Law and Society course (1997-98, 1998-99).
Introduction to Study of Law (Part-time Education Undergraduate Degree Programme, 1998-99).
"Nottinghamshire CC vs the Net: The JET Report, censorship and freedom of information on the Internet," seminar held at the Law Faculty, Nottingham Trent University, May 21, 1998.
Seminars within The Information Society: themes and issues course at the Economics and Politics department, Nottingham Trent University, May-June 1998.
'Censorship on the Internet,' seminar held at the Law School, University of Glasgow, November 13, 1997.
'Copyright on the Internet: Problems created by the WWW links,' seminar held at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, 13 May, 1997.

Other relevant activities:

Act as a referee for the Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) and MacMillan publishers.
Attended as a NGO representative the OECD Ministerial Conference, "A Borderless World: Electronic Commerce," in Ottawa, Canada, October 7-9, 1998.
Responsible for the “UK Law Online: The UK Legal System on the Internet” project together with Professor Clive Walker, sponsored by the Hamlyn Trust Fund. Our main object is the raising of public awareness, appreciation and understanding of the UK Legal System by use of the medium of the Internet. The project will involve the creation of a world wide web page, initially at the Leeds Law Faculty, and this web site will promote the UK Legal System on the Internet. The objective is to create a series of world wide web pages which may be compared to a basic UK Legal System text-book but is distinguished by the medium being used. This will allow us to convey our messages in accessible, alluring and attractive formats. Thus, we shall employ non-technical language, with plenty of graphics, pictures and references and links to further sources of information (such as the UK Government web servers, House of Lords decisions or the UK police web servers).
Developed ‘The Law Discipline Network,’ a project by the Department for Employment and Education.
Scrambling for Safety Conference organized by Privacy International and the Global Internet Liberty Campaign at the London School of Economics on the 19th of May 1997
Global Internet Project, Encryption Summit, London, April 8, 1997.
Policing the Internet: Combating Pornography and Violence on the Internet - A European Approach organised by the European Commission, London, 13-14 February 1997.
20/20 Vision Programme Communications Forum on Liberty, Licence and Privacy, IEE, London, 31 January 1997.
Liberty on the Line organised by Scientists for Labour - IT & Communications Group, London, 14th November 1996.
Critical Lawyers Conference at the Keele University, Keele 10-11 February 1996.
Civil Liberties and the Internet Seminar on the 12th of July 1996, Kings College - London.