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- Professor Colin Harvey
- Professor Gordon Anthony
- Professor Norma Dawson
- Professor Brice Dickson
- Professor Philip Leith
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Professor Philip Leith
Contact Details
Email address p.leith@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3867
Room 30.201, 30 University Square
Biography
Philip Leith is Professor of Law at Queen's University Belfast. He has degrees in sociology, systems analysis, computer science and law. Books published:
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The Jurisprudence of Orthodoxy: Queen's University Essays on H.L.A.Hart. editor (with P.Ingram), Routledge, 1988.
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Formalism in AI and Computer Science, Ellis Horwood/Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1990.
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The Computerised Lawyer, Springer-Verlag, London, New York and Berlin, 1991.
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The Barrister's World and the Nature of Law, (with John Morison), Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1992. Also published by Ahditat Books, New Dehli, 1993. Full text.
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The Computerised Lawyer (2nd Fully Revised Edition - with Amanda Hoey), Springer-Verlag, London, New York and Berlin 1998.
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Harmonisation of Intellectual Property in Europe: a case study in patent procedure, Vol. 3, Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 1998. Full text.
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Software and Patents in Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Details here.
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Propensity to Apply for Judicial Office under the new Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments System: a qualitative study for the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission, Queen's University, 2009 (with M.Lynch, L. Glennon, B.Dickson, S.Wheeler). Full text.
In addition, Professor Leith is author of a large number of articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books covering a variety of topics including computer science, jurisprudence, intellectual property and eGovernment. He has undertaken research in litigation in Intellectual Property (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), definition of software patents (ESRC funded), expanding the legal information marketplace as part of an eContent project (EU funded) and privacy/data protection and trust issues in eGovernment.
Professor Leith was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, a visiting professor at the Maximillians University in Munich, and is presently a Research Associate at the AHRB IP Centre in Edinburgh University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Governance at Queen’s. He has been an active participant in a number of exchange programmes including the Eulisp programme (European law schools teaching IT Law) and has now become a member of an Alfa project (South American developments in IT Law).
During his career at Queen's he has been active with the British & Irish Law and Technology Association (BILETA) since its inception (including having been Chair), is currently a Trustee of the British & Irish Legal Information Institute ( BAILII ) and has in the recent past been active with the Society for Computers and Law, both in Northern Ireland and as a council member.
He has been external examiner for a number of universities focusing on intellectual property and information technology courses at QMW, Cork, Galway, UCD and Strathclyde. He is currently an external for the University of London.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Information and Communications Technology, International Review of Law Computers and Technology and Script-Ed.
Recent articles include:
Developing European Legal Information Markets based on Government Information, (with Karen McCullagh) in International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 12(3) pp247-281, 2004
E-Gov in the UK: Too much technology? Too little law?.- Privacy and Data Protection in Europe, X congreso iberoamericano de derecho e informática Santiago de Chile, September, 2004
Software Patents: JISC Briefing Paper, November 2004. Full text.
Government eCommunications in the UK: A Question of Trust?, Lefis Electronic government workshop, Durham, March 2004.
Gobierno electrónico, democracia electrónica y derecho, Seminario Internacional ALFA sobre Gobierno electrónico, Abril, Sala Maggiolo, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, April 2006
UK Developments, 5th Legislative XML Workshop, Italian National Research Council, Florence, June 2006
The Socio-legal Context of Privacy, International Journal of Law in Context (2006), 2:2:105-136 Cambridge University Press
Squeezing Information out of the Information Commissioner: mapping and measuring through on–line public registers, (2006) 3:4 SCRIPT-ed 389. Full text.
Patenting programs as machines, (2007) 4:2 SCRIPT-ed 214. Full text.
New Technology and Researchers’ Access to Court and Tribunal Information: the need for European analysis (with Maeve McDonagh), to appear in SCRIPT-ed, April 2009.
