Data is highly complex not just because of its own status but also its impact on digital markets. Join us for a discussion along competition and data protection experts on how to regulate data.
Data can be found almost everywhere but a dataset - held by giant market players such as Google and Facebook - could be considered as a barrier, effectively limiting access to digital markets. There is also evidence supporting natural monopoly features in digital markets. If these ideas are accepted then additional questions arise such as defining the role of data and whether it is necessary to facilitate access to a dataset. Regulating access requires a careful exercise by considering the tenets of competition law and data privacy law.
Niamh Dunne is an Associate Professor, teaching in the areas of competition and EU law. Before coming to the LSE in September 2015, she was a Lecturer at King's College London, and a Fellow in Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She has also worked in competition enforcement for the Competition Authority of Ireland, and as a consultant in competition policy, primarily for the OECD. She holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, PhD), NYU School of Law (LLM) and King's College London (MA). She is qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and in England & Wales (both non-practising), and as an attorney in New York State.
Liza Lovdahl Gormsen joined Financial Conduct Authority as a Senior Advisor in May 2020. She is also a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of the Competition Law Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She chairs the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Forum. Liza obtained a PhD in Competition Law at King's College London in 2007 supervised by Richard Whish QC. Following her PhD, she taught Competition Law at London School of Economics and University of Manchester. Liza is the author of A Principle Approach to Abuse of Dominance (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and State Aid and Tax Rulings (Edward Elgar, 2019). She has published widely in national and international peer-review journals and regularly addresses audiences at select committees before the House of Commons and House of Lords, the White House and the European Commission. She sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press).Besides her academic background, Liza has legal experience from both the private and public sector. She has served as a lawyer at the Office of Fair Trading (now the Competition Markets Authority) and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank for a number of years.Liza is currently a Board Member of the Open Markets Institute in Washington DC and is a non-governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, appointed by the Competition and Markets Authority.
Orla Lynskey is an Associate Professor and joined LSE Law in September 2012. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of data protection, technology regulation, digital rights and EU law. She holds an LLB (Law and French) from Trinity College Dublin, an LLM in EU Law from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. This PhD research has been developed into a monograph, The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law, published by OUP in 2015. She is called to the Bar of England and Wales and working in Competition law practice in Brussels before beginning her doctoral research. She is an editor of International Data Privacy Law (OUP) and the European Law Blog, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Data Protection Law Review.
Andrew Murray is Professor of Law with particular reference to New Media and Technology Law and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). He is also Deputy Head of the Department. Andrew studied law at Edinburgh University, from where he graduated (LL.B. Hons) in 1994. He undertook the one year Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice during 1994-95 and then spent one year as a research assistant in the Department of Private Law, University of Edinburgh before taking up a lectureship in law at the University of Stirling in 1996. He joined the LSE Law Department in September 2000. As well as holding memberships of: The Society of Computers and Law (SCL); The Higher Education Academy (HEA) and The David Hume Institute, Andrew was from 2001-2004 an Executive Member of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA); and was from 2002-2008 a recognised 'Independent Expert' of the Nominet UK Dispute Resolution Procedure and from 2007-2012 a Fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. He is a visiting professor at the Computer/Law Institute, VU Amsterdam and was a visiting professor in the Ecole de Droit, Sciences Po, Paris in Lent Term 2015 and at the Paris School of International Affairs in Lent Term 2017. In 2018/19 he was the specialist advisor to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry “Regulating in a Digital World".
Helena Donohoe is the founder and managing partner of Donohoe & Co., a firm in London specialising in international family law work. She graduated with a degree in law from the LSE in 1999. Helena became the Chair of the LSE Lawyers Alumni Group in December 2016, having served on the committee since 2011.
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