Professor Stephen Saxby

Prof Stephen Saxby

BA, Cert.Ed, MBCS, PhD, Solicitor

Tel: 023 8059 3404 (direct)
Fax: 023 8059 3024
E-mail: s.j.saxby@soton.ac.uk

Position: Deputy Head of School (Research), Professor of Information Technology Law and Public Policy

 

 

Associate Member - GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
Director of ILAWs - The Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton 

Programme Committee Chairman - www.lspi.net

Background

BA (Kent) 1972; Cert Ed (Lond) 1977; MBCS 1992; PhD (Soton) 1996. Solicitor, 1976.

Since 1977 Professor Saxby has pioneered the introduction of Information Technology Law into the LLB and LLM curriculum at Southampton. In 1981 he introduced the first such course in the UK to feature in the undergraduate curriculum. This course is now in its 25th year at Southampton. In 1991 he introduced the first postgraduate course to examine European Union legal policy towards regulation of information technology and he now teaches Internet Law at LLM covering both public and private law issues. This course will also be available to students from Electronics and Computer Science

Subject to final approval he will be joining Professor Ian Lloyd in presenting a new LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law by distance learning at University of Southampton with effect from September 2010. Further information can be found at:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/law/newsandevents/2010/2010_01_21_itt_distance_learning_llm.shtml 

Teaching

Distance Learning LLM *subject to approval

Internet Law (two semesters) LAWS 6071

e-Commerce LAWS6060 (Semester 1 only, for ECS students as well) 

Privacy, Crime and Security LAWS6059 (Semester 2 only, for ECS students as well)

Interests

His research interest lies in the field of public policy towards information and communications technology. He has conducted consultancy for the European Commission, Ordnance Survey, the European Association for Geographic Information and the Countryside Agency and has advised government on these issues. He is currently researching policy towards archiving public sector information.

Recent Publications

In 2009 he completed a paper entitled: National archives and records – the legal and policy implications published in Int. J. Private Law, Vol. 3. Nos. 1/2 2010 pp. 43-69.

In June 2008 he presented a paper at the 2nd International Conference on Business Law and Technology (IBLT) at Touro Law Center, Long Island New York, June 17-19 2008. The paper: Public Sector Information Policy and Re-Use Policy – Where is the UK now? is published in: Business and Law – Theory and Practice, Dr Sylvia Kierkegaard (Ed.) ISBN 10: 87-991385-4-9 (June 2008) at pp. 67-93 and Int. J. Private Law, Vol. 1. Nos. 3/4 2008, pp. 229-255.

In 2007 Professor Saxby and his colleague Ms Caroline Wilson co wrote an essay entitled ‘IT Law in Context: A Critical Overview’ for Halsbury’s Laws Centenary Essays Collection (LexisNexis Butterworths) Ed. Simon Hetherington, published in November 2007. See pp. 85-102.

In 2006 Professor Saxby obtained AHRC funded research leave to add to his University research leave in that academic year. During this period he wrote on public policy towards a national geographic information strategy and secondly on policy issues relating to the digital geospatial representation of designated land use. This builds on research conducted earlier for the Countryside Agency in his capacity as Associate of the GeoData Institute of Southampton University. This work also reflects his research links with Ordnance Survey, whose National Headquarters are found in Southampton. The first of the two papers entitled ‘Public Policy and the development of a UK National Geographic Information Strategy’ can be found at 14 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 2, (Summer 2006) 147-194.

His paper entitled ‘Public Policy and the Digital Geospatial Representation of Designated Land Use (in two parts) is at: [2007] 19 Journal of Environmental Law 5-28 and 227-246

In 2005 Professor Saxby continued his series of academic papers on the subject of UK Crown Copyright policy that he has studied for the past 10 years. His most recent paper entitled Crown Copyright Regulation in the UK – Is the debate still alive? can be found at 13 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 2, (Winter 2005) 299-335. http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/299

Earlier IjLit publications can be found at: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk

In the second part of his sabbatical in 2005-06 Professor Saxby was funded by the AHRC to produce a monograph entitled ‘A Critical Analysis of the Synergy between eGovernment and related Policies in the UK’. This was published in [2006] Computer and Telecommunications Law Review 179-215.

Among his other publications is his thesis on Regulation of the Market in Digital Information. This was published as a book entitled: Public Policy and Legal Regulation of the Information Market in the Digital Network Environment 1996 (CompLex Series, Oslo University).

His first book: The Age of Information was published in 1990 (Macmillan/New York University Press)

See further ePrints at the University of Southampton.

Editorial Responsibilities

He is founding editor of The Computer Law and Security Review – (CLSR), 1985 (Elsevier Ltd) - the International Journal of Technology Law and Practice now in its 26th year under his editorship. CLSR is read in almost 90 countries and is the highest ranked Technology Law Journal in Europe according to the 2009 rankings administered by the Council of Australian Law Deans. It attracts the best writing in the field from both academic and practitioner sources. The online version of CLSR is accessible to over 17 million readers. Through CLSR, links have been established with leading research centres around the world specialising in IT law including those the Centre for Law and Information at Namur, the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law in Oslo and the Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney. Links also exist with approximately one dozen of the leading IT law firms based in London and internationally.

 

He is also founding editor of The Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law (Thomson/Sweet and Maxwell Ltd 1990). This loose-leaf work provides analysis of UK IT Law and is contributed to by leading academics and UK law firms practising in the field.