Ian Lloyd was educated at the Universities of Strathclyde and Exeter. Following an initial appointment as Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Ian joined the staff of the Law School in 1979 and is currently Professor of Information Technology Law.

Commencing with his doctoral thesis which examined the relevance and appropriateness of existing models of data protection laws, Ian Lloyd has published widely on various topics relating to the use and misuse of information technology and is the author of two of the leading textbooks on the subject. He is also managing editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology published by Oxford University Press and joint editor of the electronic Journal of Information, Law and Technology. Ian has been grant holder for a number of externally funded research projects, including four funded under European Union programmes such as ESPRIT and Telematics Applications. Other projects have been funded by the British Library, HEFCE and the ESRC.

Ian is also a member of the European Commissions Legal Advisory Board, a body of experts which is required to be consulted on all legislative proposals relating to the information market.

 

Ian teaches on the following undergraduate courses:

The Computer, Society and the Law

Software Protection and Liability

Computer Law

 

On the LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law programme, he teaches:

Legal Aspects of Information Security

Telecommunications Law

 

Ian has recently worked on the following research projects:

DAPRO (Data Protection Programme), funded by the EU.

ENLIST (European Network for Legal Information, Study and Training), funded by the EU.

Intellectual Property Rights in Higher Educational Establishments, funded by JISC.

 

Some representative publications are

Law on the Electronic Frontier (Edinburgh University Press) (with Moira Simpson) 1996

The Data Protection Act (Butterworths) 1998

Information Technology Law (Butterworths) (3rd Ed) 2000

Commerce on the Electronic Frontier (Edinburgh University Press) 2000

 

Ian is involved with the following administrative tasks:

Co-Director of Centre for Law, Computers and Technology

Director of the LLM in Information Technology &Telecommunications Law

Research Committee

Postgraduate Studies Committee

Academic Committee

Management Committee