Mr Andrew Charlesworth

Research summary

Andrew Charlesworth's post was initially funded by a range of commercial sponsors, and Andrew continues to work with organisations such as Vodafone, Herbert Smith LLP and HP Labs on a range of legal issues.  His research runs across a number of legal subject areas including, but not limited to, information technology law, intellectual property law, e-commerce law, public law, and socio-legal studies.  The thread that holds this somewhat disparate collection together is the role of the law in determining the access to, use of, and controls over, all kinds of information; whether the information is software source code, personal ...

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Biography

Andrew Charlesworth began his academic career in 1991 as a lecturer at the University of Hull, then Senior Lecturer in 1996.  He founded the Information Law and Technology Unit (ILTU) at Hull in 1994 to promote teaching and research into the interaction of law and information technologies.

Andrew was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol in 2001, a joint post in the Law School and Department of Computer Science.  He is currently Reader in IT and Law, and Director of the Centre for IT and Law (CITL).  The CITL was founded with support from Vodafone Group Services ...

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Recent publications

• Charlesworth, AJ & Pearson, S 2012, ‘Developing Accountability‐based Solutions for Data Privacy in the Cloud’. Innovation. European Journal of Social Science Research, vol 26., pp. 7-35
• Charlesworth, A 2012, ‘Data Protection, Freedom of information and Ethical Review Committees: Policies, Practicalities and Dilemmas’. Information, Communication & Society, vol 15 (1)., pp. 85 - 103

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