Ireland 2030 – Digital Citizenship and Governance (May 2022)
I spoke as part of a panel in the Royal Irish Academy’s Ireland 2030 series. The full session is available to watch again on YouTube; my contribution was entitled ‘Everything old is new again?’ and reflected on media technologies and data-driven urban renewal.
Never mind the new oil, is there mud on the wheels? The information industries after Brexit (April 2021)
An online talk as part of the first event of the Cross-Border Data Protection Network. Watch the full session here.
Roundtable – Overcoming the Jurisdictional Challenge of the Internet? (March 2021)
This was an online event to celebrate the publication of Prof. Julia Hörnle’s new book Internet Jurisdiction: Law & Practice, which I chaired. The full session is available to watch again on YouTube.
Keynote – ‘This Information Law’ (April 2020)
Keynote address at the annual conference of the Centre for Information Governance Research (University of Sussex), delivered online in April 2020. See the slides here.
Schrödinger’s Smart City: Surveillance, Social Credit, and Sustainability (January 2020)
Public lecture at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Dublin, on smart cities (including reflecting on some of my visits to US projects as an Eisenhower Fellow).
Inaugural Lecture – “Technophilia, technophobia, and technobabble: the relationship between law and innovation” (February 2019)
Having being appointed as Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast in 2017, I had the opportunity to deliver an inaugural lecture in Belfast in 2019. A version of the lecture is available here.
Keynote – ‘Tech law and the techlash’ (BILETA) (April 2018)
I gave the keynote lecture at the annual conference of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association at Aberdeen in 2018. See the slides here.
Peng t(h)ing called disruption… (September 2017)
Notes and a playlist for my Gikii 2017 talk on representations of technological change (including the sharing economy) in music.
Identity, oblivion and the ‘right to be forgotten’ (July 2015)
Televised debates and elections (March 2015)
Interview (in Irish) with Raidió na Gaeltachta on the regulation of televised debates during election period. Listen again here.
Computers and the Coalition (February 2015)
Lecture given at the opening of the Information Law and Policy Centre, University of London. Reflects on the legislation adopted by the UK Parliament between 2010 and 2015. Read the speech here.
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