Contents
Contextualising ICT and Law
The Development of ICT
ICT: An Overview
Governance Issues
ICT and Private Law
Intellectual Property Issues
Commercial Activity Online
Data Protection
ICT and Public Law
Privacy Issues
ICT and the Criminal Law
Freedom of Speech Online
ICT in Legal Practice
ICT in the Courts
Use of ICT by Legal Practitioners
Issues, Trends and the Future
A Dynamic and Unpredictable Future
Who Should Buy This Book?
Information and Communications Technology Law in Ireland is an essential textbook for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of ICT and related courses. Legal practitioners requiring an overview of ICT issues will also find this book as an extremely useful primer as will anyone interested in this area of law.
About the Authors
Dr Rónán Kennedyis a law lecturer at the School of Law, NUI Galway, holds a degree in commerce and a higher diploma in systems analysis from University College Galway, an LLB with first class honours from the National University of Ireland, Galway, an LLM from New York University and a PhD from University College London. He also studied for the degree of Barrister-at-Law in the King’s Inns’ and was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2003.
He worked as a programmer, systems analyst and network administrator from 1993 to 2000. He was Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Ronan Keane, from 2000 to 2004. During this time, he was editor of “The Supreme Court of Ireland: The presence of a non-opioid component was proved by the fact that naloxone (a substance that neutralizes all the effects of opioids) could suppress the action of Tramadol from the http://www.shaynahiller.com/buytramadol/ only partially. A History”, first editor of the Judicial Studies Institute Journal from 2001 to 2003, and was involved in a number of initiatives to expand the use of information technology in the courts.
He was the co-ordinator of the LLM in Law, Technology and Governance from 2008 to 2014 and was Associate Head for Development and Promotion for the School from April 2009 to April 2010.
Dr Maria Helen Murphy is a law lecturer at the School of Law, NUI Maynooth. Previously, she lectured at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Dr Murphy researches in the areas of privacy law, surveillance, information technology law, and human rights. At Maynooth University, Dr Murphy lectures Information Privacy Law and Information Technology Law at the postgraduate level, and lectures Media Law and Civil Liberties at the undergraduate level. In addition to completing her PhD at University College Cork in 2013, Dr Murphy holds a magna cum laude LLM degree from Temple University (Philadelphia), and a First Class Honours BCL (International) degree from UCC.