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Fernando Barrio, Ph.D. Global Knowledge Industries Law & Policy
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Senior Lecturer in Business Law London Metropolitan Business School London Metropolitan University
Adjunct Faculty in International Business Law & Media Law Regents American College of London & Webster Graduate School
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The main topic of my academic and scholarly interest can be synthesized in the relation between law, new technologies and development from a global perspective, but the path to reach it is not always straight or only one. New technologies include a vast array of issues and it would be impossible to explore all of them, so the main focus of my intellectual endeavour is on electronic information networks and their relation with the law and law making.
The first approach to the analysis of the relation between law and information networks was during my postgraduates studies at the Graduate School of International Development of the Nagoya University in Japan, where both my MA and PhD dissertations dealt with taxation to electronic commerce, in Europe and globally respectively. Then, the topic evolved to purely electronic commerce regulation and policy, what is today one of the main issues that I research about on its own merit with special emphasis on the way that affects global development.
The enquiry about the regulation to electronic businesses, leads naturally to the characterization of the information itself and the rights that the creators or others may have over it, which implies that studying the rights over the creations of the mind (so called intellectual property) also takes a big part of my research time. From there to TRIPS there is a very short way, and the investigation into the uses (and abuses) of TRIPS closes the circle and brings me back to deal with the relation between the regulation to new technologies and development.
While due to pedagogical needs and personal interests much of the research is UK and USA based, there is also an important current stream dealing with Latin American issues, and the comparison between these different regions and jurisdictions. |
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2008 UK Law Teacher of the Year During the last Learning in Law Academic Conference that took place at the University of Warwick, the UK Centre for Legal Education named me UK Law Teacher of the Year, in conjunction with Professor Alistair Hudson, of Queen Mary University of London.
New book on Cyberlaw, E-Business and Finance IGI Global, just published the book Cyberlaw for Global E-Business: Finance, Payments and Dispute Resolution, edited by Professor Takashi Kubota.
Call for papers: Digital Divide and ICT Regulation in Latin America I am organizing a panel for the next Latin American Studies Association International Congress that will take place in Rio de Janeiro between 11-14 of June 2009. The proposals for the panel should be sent by 16 March of 2008 and the full particulars are here... |
