About

The CyberLaw Blog is run by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz who is a senior lecturer (associate professor) at the CyberLaw Research Unit, School of Law, University of Leeds.

I teach and write mainly about Internet related legal and policy issues. I am also the founder and director of Cyber-Rights.Org, a non-profit civil liberties organisation since 1997.

I have been an international policy fellow of the Open Society Institute working on a project entitled Civil Society Participation to the policy making process of the Turkish Government in relation to the development of an Information Society in Turkey between 2003-2004. I have given oral evidence on a number of occasions in front of governmental bodies including at the European Union (including in front of the European Parliament Temporary Committee on the Echelon interception systems and its threats to human rights), United Nations, OSCE, and at UNESCO levels. I also acted as an expert to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Office in relation to the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and my report entitled Stocktaking on efforts to combat Racism on the Internet, was published during a High Level Seminar on Racism and the Internet in Geneva in January 2006.

When I can manage, I run several websites, projects, and blogs, these are:

The CyberLaw Blog will have links to news items, policy initiatives, legal developments, parliamentary debate, and court cases related to the topic of cyberlaw. More specifically, I will cover items related to free speech and censorship, defamation, ISP liability, hate speech and racist content, pornography, child pornography, cybercrimes, privacy, surveillance, data protection, data retention, consumer protection, copyright infringement, P2P networks and piracy, and cyber terrorism.

I can be contacted at lawya@cyber-rights.org.

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