Academic Staff in the School of Law:

Mr Christopher Marsden

Senior Lecturer. Director of LLM in Information Technology Media and E-commerce in Spring Term.

E Mail: cmars;
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Telephone: +44 (0)1206 87 2601

Fax: +44 (0)1206 87 3428

Room: 4SB.5.23 [Staff Office Hours]

Chris Marsden joined the School in 2007, having taught select information technology courses since 2004 as Fellow of the School. He was senior analyst at RAND Europe (2005-07), research manager at Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (2004-05), Regulatory Director at MCI WorldCom UK Ltd (2001-02), General Counsel of Shortmedia (2000-01), and Lecturer in European Law at the University of Warwick (1997-200). He has LLB 1989 and LLM (International Economic Law) 1994 from the London of School of Economics.

His external positions include:

Associate Editor of the communications regulation and policy journal 'info' (2008-to-date)
Board Member, Society for Computers and Law Media (2009 to-date)
Editorial Board Member of the journal 'info' (2003 to-date)
Founding co-editor of International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (1998-2001)
Program Committee member, Telecoms Policy Research Conference (2006-08).
Media pluralism consultant for the Council of Europe 1999.
Chair ESRC European Communications Research Group 1997-09.
Residential fellow at the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1999-2000).

Chris has been a visiting research fellow/associate at:

Melbourne University Law School (1999)
Warwick ESRC Globalisation Centre (2000-01)
Warwick Business School (2002-03)
University of Southern California Annenberg School (2003)
Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (2005-07)
Cambridge University Computer Lab (2006-08)
Keio University, School of Communications, Tokyo, (2007-to-date)

Research Interests

Internet Law
Media Law
Competition Law and Economics
Free speech and law

Key Publications

Books:

Marsden, C. (2009), Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution. London: Bloomsbury.
Tambini, D. Leonardi, D. and Marsden, C. (2007). Codifying Cyberspace: Self Regulation of Converging Media.London: Glasshouse Press/Taylor and Francis.
Marsden, C. (ed)(2000) Regulating the Global Information Society, London and New York: Routledge.
Marsden, C. and Verhulst (eds) (1999) Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation. London: Blackstone/OUP.

Recent Articles:

Marsden (2008) Beyond Europe: The Internet, Regulation and Multistakeholder Governance - Representing the Consumer Interest? Consumer Policy 1, ISSN 0342-5843, Springer.
Marsden, C. (2007) Net neutrality and Access to Content, 4 Script-ed 4 at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/
Marsden (2005) Free, open or closed – approaches to the information ecology, info Volume: 7 Issue: 5 pp: 6-19.
Marsden (2004) Co- and Self-Regulation in European Media Sectors 9 Tolley's Communications Law 5, November.
Marsden (2001) Cyberlaw and International Political Economy: Towards Regulation of the Global Information Society L. Rev. M.S.U.-D.C.L. 355.

Recent Chapters in Books:

Marsden, L Edwards and I Brown (2009) Information Security and Cybercrime in L Edwards, C (Waelde eds) Law and the Internet, 3rd ed, Oxford: Hart.
Marsden and Arino (2004) 'Introduction: From Analogue to Digital' in Brown and Picard eds Digital Terrestrial TV in Europe, Lawrence Erlbaum.
Marsden C. (2003) 'The challenges of standardization: Towards the next generation Internet' in E Noam et al eds nternet Television, Lawrence Erlbaum.

Speaker:

Chris Marsden gave a keynote talk in Tokyo on 26th February 2008 at the 21st Century Institute conference: http://www.21ppi.org/japanese/activity/symposium/53.html
Chris Marsden is a keynote speaker at the 23rd annual BILETA 2008 on the subject “Network Neutrality” on 28th March at Glasgow Caledonian University: http://www.gcal.ac.uk/bileta2008/

Academic Conference Papers:

17 November 2008: Self-regulation and security: The London Action Plan against Spam (with Ian Brown) GIGANET, Internet Governance Forum, Rio de Janeiro http://www-polytic.lip6.fr/article.php3?id_article=192
29 September 2008: 35th Telecoms Policy Research Conference, Alexandria, Virginia, Beyond the ‘net neutrality’ debate: Price and quality discrimination in next generation internet access (with J. Cave) at http://web.si.umich.edu/

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