Program Organiser

Sylvia Mercado Kierkegaard has published over 2000 articles which have appeared in leading journals, books, newspapers and magazines. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology (JICLT), editor of 5 international law journals, editorial board member of 14 international journals and editor of several law books. Her article regularly appears in Computer Law and Security Report (Oxford-Elsevier), the world’s leading international law journals on computer law, where she also serves as a member of the Correspondents Panel. She is a member of the Program Committee and reviewer of several organizations and conferences. She is a Thesis Advisor in the Masters program and management-legal consultant for various companies. She is a recipient of three international journalism awards and is currently president of the International Association of IT Lawyers (www.iaitl.org). Her academic background includes several postgraduate degrees obtained in the USA, UK, Denmark, Netherlands and Manila.

Program Commitee

Program Commitee Chairman

Edward A. Morse, Professor of Law, was recently appointed as the inaugural holder of the McGrath, North, Mullin & Kratz endowed chair in Business Law.

Professor Morse received his Bachelor of Science Business Administration degree from Drake University in 1985; and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988. Before joining Creighton's faculty in 1994, he was law clerk for the Honorable Deanell R. Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and he was associated with the Atlanta office of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. Professor Morse is a member of the bars of Nebraska and Georgia, and he holds a CPA certificate in Iowa. He is active in the ABA Section of Taxation. From 2001-2005 he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Law.

Professor Morse’s scholarship and teaching focuses on business and taxation issues. Current projects include a chapter for a new Lexis/Nexis treatise (FedTax In Depth) on tax accounting issues for farmers, the annual summary of important income tax developments for the Great Plains Federal Tax Institute, and research papers involving international trade in services and fiduciary responsibilities in connection with corporate insolvency.

Track Chairman Maritme Law

Kristina Maria Siig is Associate Professor of Law at the Institute of Law, University of Southern Denmark. She is an internationally -recognized maritime lawyer and a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. Her main research interest includes topics related to international trade, in particular maritime law, choice of law and international arbitration. She finished her doctor of law at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway and her LLM at the University of Århus, Denmark.

She has published several articles and books dealing mainly with transportation and maritime law.













Caspar Bowden. Chief Privacy Advisor EMEA, Microsoft EMEA Technology Office. Caspar Bowden leads the privacy pillar of the Trustworthy Computing initiative across Europe, Middle-East and Africa. His goal is to ensure that users of Microsoft products and services are in control of their personal data and that fair information practices are respected. He is a specialist in data protection policy, privacy enhancing technology research, identity management and authentication. He was formerly director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, an independent think-tank that studies the interaction between computers and society, and promotes public understanding and dialogue between UK and European civil society and policy-makers in the fields of e-commerce, copyright, law enforcement and national security, e-government, cryptography and digital signatures. He was appointed expert adviser to the UK parliament for the passage of three bills concerning privacy issues, and was co-organizer of the influential Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK encryption and surveillance policy. His previous career over two decades ranged from investment banking (proprietary trading risk-management for option arbitrage), to software engineering (graphics engines and cryptography), including work for Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM.


Prof. Susan W. Brenner is NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law. Professor Brenner has spoken at numerous events and has conducted cybercrime training for the National District Attorneys Association and for the U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crime Task Forces. She chaired the International Efforts Working Group for the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Computer Crime Committee, serves on the National District Attorneys Association’s Cybercrimes Committee, and chairs the National Institute of Justice - Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative’s Working Group on Law & Policy. She has published various articles dealing with cybercrime.

Prof. Willem Grosheide teaches law at the University of Utrecht as full professor in the field of private law and intellectual property law. He is Chairman of the Centre of Intellectual Property Law (Molengraaff Institute UU) and Director of several post graduate courses on behalf of judges, members of the bar and other practitioners in the Netherlands and abroad.


Irmantas Jarukaitis is a lecturer at Vilnius University Faculty of Law (Lithuania) and Deputy Director of the European Law Department under the Ministry of Justice. He is a member of the Center of Legal Informatics at the Faculty of Law, author and co-author of number of books, articles and studies in the field of IT law (especially – electronic communications) and legal issues of the European integration. Participated in negotiations concerning Lithuania‘s accession to the EU. Shortly worked at the European Commission, DG INFSO. Member of the International Board of Review at the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition.

Minhu Ma, Professor of law at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, is the director of Chinese information law seminar, the academician of the World Jurist Association, the adviser of information & network security experts group of Shaanxi Province, the consultant of Xi'an Intermediate People's Court of the People’s Republic of China and the arbiter of Xi'an Arbitration Commission. Professor Ma specializes in intellectual property law, information & technology law, cyber-security law and the issues of information securities.





Paul Przemysław Polański obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Science of the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also holds a degree in Law from the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poland and an IT degree from the Monash University in Australia.
Paul administers e-learning platform http://www.elaw.pl.
Paul Polanski is a holder of Marie Curie Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge within the 6th Framework Programme at the Research Centre for Legal and Economic Issues of Electronic Communication (CBKE) at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the Wrocław University, Poland. He also holds teaching posts in the Department of European Law at the University of Warsaw and in the Department of Information Technology at Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw, Poland.

Carlos Alberto Rohrmann is Professor of Law at Faculdade de Direito Milton Campos – FDMC (Brazil) and is the author of Curso de Direito Virtual – “Course of Cyberlaw”, a book about cyberlaw in Brazil (Ed. Del Rey, 2005). Prof. Rohrmann holds a Doctorate in the Science of Law J.S.D (UC Berkeley, USA).

Stephan Saxby (BA, Cert.Ed., MBCS, PhD, Solicitor) is editor of the Computer Law and Security Report (Elsevier) www.compseconline.com and the Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law (Sweet and Maxwell). Stephen Saxby is a Reader in Information Technology Law at the University of Southampton and is currently on research leave, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, to examine the synergy between eGovernment and related UK policy.

Dr. Rolf Weber, Professor of Private, Business and European Law, is the Director of the European Law Institute and of the Centre for Information and Communication Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zürich.
He is also a judge in Swiss and International Arbitral tribunals in commercial matters. Dr.Weber obtained his Dr.Iur degree from the University of Zürich. He was visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, visiting professor at the University of Hongkong and a partner in a law firm.




Prof. Dr. Peggy Valcke, is a postdoctoral researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) and teaches communications law in the LL.M. programme of the K.U.Leuven, as well as media law in the postgraduate programme "Intellectual Property" at the K.U.Brussel. She is currently a member of the European Focus Groups for the revision of the Television without Frontiers Directive and of the Belgian Advisory Committee for Telecommunications (Raadgevend Comité voor de Telecommunicatie).

Since January 2005, she has been working as an expert for the Flemish minister for Media. She has also joined OfcomWatch, an informal group blog commenting on the processes and practices of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and related media and communications regulation issues both in the United Kingdom and around the world.

Mr. René Van Laer is the principal of Hillerød Business College - Lyngby Business College since 1991. Career: MSc at CBS Copenhagen 1976, head of several lines of education at the business college, and finally deputy managing director from 1988-91. René van Laer has lived 4 years in Cairo, Egypt, and was in charge of a large EU project from 1996-1999. He has been co-writer of a number of books for students on business economics and has participated throughout the years in a number of working groups, of which some have been set up by the Ministry of Education.

Caroline Wilson studied law at University College London, both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate, before working for two years as a legal researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). She was then based at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI), University of London before joining the University of Southampton School Of Law in 2000. In addition to her academic activities, she provides consultancy services and in-house professional training for a range of clients. Caroline's research interests lie in Intellectual Property Law, particularly comparative Patent Law, and Information Technology Law.