Publications

The ßÏßÏÊÓÆµ Centre for Law and Technology publishes work in a wide range of journals. Discover some of our recent articles.

2025

  • Townend, J., & Doughty, J. (2025). Cold comfort: to what extent is there a gendered chilling effect in England and Wales?. Journal of Media Law, 1-30. doi:10.1080/17577632.2025.2582766
    Article. .
  • Kira, B. (2025). Pro-competition and online safety: A more holistic approach to digital platform regulation. In Research Handbook on Data, Privacy and Competition Law (pp. 90-112). Edward Elgar Publishing.
    Chapter. .
  • Shurson, J. (2025). Investigative jurisdiction: the evolving limits of extraterritoriality in transnational digital investigations. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pages. doi:10.1017/S0020589325100985
    Article. .
  • Clark, D., & Townend, J. (2025). Report: Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network workshop 2025. Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network.
    Reports and working papers. .
  • Shurson, J. (2025). The balance of efficiency and fundamental rights in the EU e-Evidence Regulation. New Journal of European Criminal Law, pages. doi:10.1177/20322844251357090
    Article. .
  • Kira, B., & Townend, J. (2025). Defining the boundaries of journalism and news publishers: implications of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the public interest and media freedom. Journal of Media Law, 1-30. doi:10.1080/17577632.2025.2491806
    Article. .
  • Kira, B. (2025). Regulatory intermediaries in content moderation. Internet Policy Review, 14(1), pages. doi:10.14763/2025.1.1824
    Article. .

2024

  • Fisher, S. A., Howard, J. W., & Kira, B. (2024). Moderating Synthetic Content: the Challenge of Generative AI. Philosophy and Technology, 37(4), pages. doi:10.1007/s13347-024-00818-9
    Article. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2024). The EU’s artificial intelligence act and copyright. Journal of World Intellectual Property, pages. doi:10.1111/jwip.12330
    Article. .
  • Bakir, V., Bennet, K., Bland, B., Laffer, A., Li, P., & McStay, A. (2024). When is deception OK? Developing the IEEE recommended practice for ethical considerations of emulated empathy in partner-based general-purpose artificial intelligence systems (IEEE P7014.1). In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) (pp. 1-6). Puebla, Mexico: IEEE. doi:10.1109/istas61960.2024.10732349
    Conference publication. .
  • Shurson, J. (2024). A European right to end-to-end encryption?. Computer Law and Security Review, pages. doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106063
    Article. .
  • Kira, B. (2024). When non-consensual intimate deepfakes go viral: the insufficiency of the UK Online Safety Act. Computer Law and Security Review, 54, pages. doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106024
    Article. .
  • Barclay, S., Barnett, S., Moore, M., & Townend, J. (2024). Local news as political institution and the repercussions of ‘news deserts’: a qualitative study of seven UK local areas. Journalism, pages. doi:10.1177/14648849241272255
    Article. .
  • Judson, E., Kira, B., & Howard, J. W. (2024). The Bypass Strategy: platforms, the Online Safety Act and future of online speech. Journal of Media Law, 16(2), 336-357. doi:10.1080/17577632.2024.2361524
    Article. .
  • Pettersson, A. B. V., Ballardini, R. M., Mimler, M., Li, P., Salmi, M., Minssen, T., . . . Mäkitie, A. (2024). Core legal challenges for medical 3D printing in the EU. Healthcare (Switzerland), 12(11), pages. doi:10.3390/healthcare12111114
    Article. .
  • Jones, E., Kira, B., & Tavengerwei, R. (2024). Norm entrepreneurship in digital trade: the Singapore-led wave of digital trade agreements. World Trade Review, 23(2), 208-241. doi:10.1017/S1474745624000089
    Article. .
  • Kira, B. (2024). Inter-agency coordination and digital platform regulation: lessons from the Whatsapp case in Brazil. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 39(1), 6-29. doi:10.1080/13600869.2024.2351671
    Article. .
  • Fisher, S., Kira, B., Basavaraj, K. A., & Howard, J. (2024). Should Politicians Be Exempt from Fact-Checking?. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2(2), pages. doi:10.54501/jots.v2i2.170
    Article. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2024). Epilogue. Nfts Creativity and the Law within and Beyond Copyright, 263-264. doi:10.4324/9781003395508-15
    Article. .

2023

  • Townend, J., & Welsh, L. (2023). Observing justice: digital transparency, openness and accountability in criminal courts. Bristol University Press.
    Book. .
  • Li, P., Williams, R., Stephen, G., & Stuart, A. (2023). Regulating artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices in Europe and the United Kingdom. Law, Technology and Humans, 5(2), 94-113. doi:10.5204/lthj.3073
    Article. .
  • Shurson, J. (2023). Law Enforcement Access to Encrypted Data Across Borders. In M. Ó Floinn, L. Farmer, J. Hörnle, & D. Ormerod (Eds.), Transformations in Criminal Jurisdiction: Extraterritoriality and Enforcement. Bloomsbury Publishing.
    Chapter.
  • Li, P., Williams, R., Gilbert, S., & Anderson, S. (2023). Regulating AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices in the UK. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. doi:10.1145/3597512.3599704
    Conference publication. .
  • Gilbert, S., Anderson, S., Daumer, M., Li, P., Melvin, T., & Williams, R. (2023). Learning from experience and finding the right balance in the governance of ai-based and digital health technologies: a perspective. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, 1-11. doi:10.2196/43682
    Article. .
  • Pettersson, A., Ballardini, R. M., Mimler, M., Li, P., Salmi, M., Minssen, T., . . . Mäkitie, A. (2023). Legal issues and underexplored data protection in medical 3D printing: a scoping review. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11, 1-8. doi:10.3389/fbioe.2023.1102780
    Article. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (n.d.). A Scanner Darkly: Copyright Infringement in Artificial Intelligence Inputs and Outputs. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4371204
    Preprint. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (n.d.). These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4360484
    Preprint. .

2022

  • Barnett, S., Murdoch, T., & Townend, J. (2022). Where public interest and public benefit meet: the application of charity law to journalism. The Journal of Media Law, 1-29. doi:10.1080/17577632.2022.2141225
    Article. .
  • Gilbert, S., Anderson, S., Daumer, M., Li, P., Melvin, T., & Williams, R. (2022). Learning From Experience and Finding the Right Balance in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Technologies (Preprint). doi:10.2196/preprints.43682
    Preprint. .
  • Bicudo, E., Morrison, M., Li, P., Faulkner, A., Mourby, M., & Kaye, J. (2022). Patent power in biomedical innovation: technology governance in biomodifying technologies. The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 1-22. doi:10.1111/jwip.12237
    Article. .
  • Lim, P. H., & Li, P. (2022). Patentability of biofabricated human organs: ‘products of nature’ or ‘products derived from nature’ revisited. In Patenting Biotechnical Innovation: Eligibility, Ethics and Public Interest (pp. 69-89). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
    Chapter. .
  • Lim, P. H., & Li, P. (2022). Artificial intelligence and inventorship: patently much ado in the computer program. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, pages. doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpac019
    Article. .
  • Townend, J., & Magrath, P. (2022). Remote trial and error: how COVID-19 changed public access to court proceedings. Journal of Media Law, 13(2), 107-121. doi:10.1080/17577632.2021.1979844
    Article. .
  • Morita-Jaeger, M., & Winters, L. A. (2022). Trade. In A. Menon, J. Reland, & J. Rutter (Eds.), Doing Things Differently? Policy After Brexit. UK in a Changing Europe. Retrieved from https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UKICE-Policy-Report_FINAL.pdf
    Chapter.
  • Mourby, M., Morrison, M., Li, P., Faulkner, A., Bicudo, E., Bell, J., & Kaye, J. (2022). Biomodifying the ‘Natural’: from adaptive regulation to adaptive societal governance. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 9(1), pages. doi:10.1093/jlb/lsac018
    Article. .
  • Cantner, U., Verspagen, B., Lazaric, N., Savona, M., Fontana, R., Joosten, R., . . . Vannuccini, S. (2022). Editorial. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32(1). doi:10.1007/s00191-022-00764-9
    Article. .

2021

  • Guadamuz, A. (2021). The treachery of images: non-fungible tokens and copyright. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 1-19. doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpab152
    Article. .
  • Bicudo, E., Faulkner, A., & Li, P. (2021). Sociotechnical alignment in biomedicine: the 3D bioprinting market beyond technology convergence. Technology in Society, 66, 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101668
    Article. .
  • Mahalatchimy, A., Lau, P. L., Li, P., & Flear, M. L. (2021). Framing and legitimating EU legal regulation of human gene-editing technologies: key facets and functions of an imaginary. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 8(2), 1-30. doi:10.1093/jlb/lsaa080
    Article. .
  • Townend, J., & Wiener, C. (2021). ‘Justice system data’: a comparative study. Surrey: The Legal Education Foundation.
    Reports and working papers. .
  • Gervais, D. J. (Ed.) (2021). The Future of Intellectual Property. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781800885349
    Book. .
  • Li, P. (2021). Intellectual property for humanity: a manifesto. In The future of intellectual property (pp. 9-36). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781800885349
    Chapter. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2021). Do androids dream of electric copyright? Comparative analysis of originality in artificial intelligence generated works. In Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property (pp. 147-176). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198870944.003.0008
    Chapter. .
  • Bicudo, E., Faulkner, A., & Li, P. (2021). Digital readiness in 3D bioprinting: software, governance and hospitals’ proto-clinical interfaces. Regenerative Medicine, 16(3), pages. doi:10.2217/rme-2020-0132
    Article. .
  • Shurson, J. (2021). Sovereignty, RIP. MODERN LAW REVIEW, 84(2). doi:10.1111/1468-2230.12586
    Article. .
  • Shurson, J., Gillispie, A., & Mason, S. (2021). Encrypted data. In S. Mason, & D. Seng (Eds.), Electronic Evidence (Fifth Edition ed.). University of London Press.
    Chapter.

2020

  • Bicudo, E., Faulkner, A., & Li, P. (2020). Software, risks, and liabilities: ongoing and emergent issues in 3D bioprinting. Journal of Risk Research, 1-15. doi:10.1080/13669877.2020.1848904
    Article. .
  • Bicudo, E., Faulkner, A., & Li, P. (2020). Patents and the experimental space: social, legal, and geographical dimensions of 3D bioprinting. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 1-22. doi:10.1080/13600869.2020.1785066
    Article. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2020). Smart contracts, blockchain and intellectual property: challenges and reality. In Intellectual property and the 4th industrial revolution (pp. pages). Amsterdam: Kluwer International Law.
    Chapter. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2020). Living in a remixed world: comparative analysis of transformative uses in copyright law. In Future law: emerging technology, regulation and ethics (pp. 408.0 pages). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Chapter. .
  • Li, P., Faulkner, A., & Medcalf, N. (2020). 3D bioprinting in a 2D regulatory landscape: gaps, uncertainties, and problems. Law, Innovation and Technology, 12(1), 1-29. doi:10.1080/17579961.2020.1727054
    Article. .
  • Shurson, J. (2020). Data protection and law enforcement access to digital evidence: resolving the reciprocal conflicts between EU and US law. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 28(2), 167-184. doi:10.1093/ijlit/eaaa011
    Article. .

2019

  • Guadamuz, A. (2019). All watched over by machines of loving grace: a critical look at smart contracts. Computer Law and Security Review, 35(6), 1-29. doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2019.105338
    Article. .

2018

  • Guadamuz, A. (2018). Internet regulation. In Law, policy and the internet (pp. 480.0 pages). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
    Chapter. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2018). Open approaches to sharing: registered and unregistered rights. doi:10.4337/9781786431172.00021
    Article. .
  • Leon, N., Baumel-Schwartz, J., Paz-Fuchs, A., & Kreitner, R. (2018). Book Reviews. Israel Studies Review, 33(1). doi:10.3167/isr.2018.330108
    Article. .

2017

  • Guadamuz, A. (2017). Developing a right to be forgotten. In EU Internet Law: Internet Law Regulation and Enforcement (pp. 59-76). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
    Chapter. .
  • Li, P. (2017). 3D bioprinting: regulation, innovation, and patents. In 3D bioprinting for reconstructive surgery: techniques and applications (pp. 570.0 pages). Elsevier.
    Chapter. .
  • Mendis, D., Nielsen, J., Nicol, D., & Li, P. (2017). The co-existence of copyright and patent laws to protect innovation — a case study of 3D printing in UK and Australian law. In The Oxford handbook of law, regulation, and technology (pp. pages). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.80
    Chapter. .
  • Li, P., & Faulkner, A. (2017). 3D bioprinting regulations: a UK/EU perspective. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 8(2), 441-447. doi:10.1017/err.2017.19
    Article. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2017). Do androids dream of electric copyright? Comparative analysis of originality in artificial intelligence generated works. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2017(2), 169-186.
    Article. .
  • Li, P., Faulkner, A., Griffin, J., & Medcalf, N. (2017). Mass customisation governance: regulation, liability, and intellectual property of re-distributed manufacturing in 3D bioprinting. IfM, Cambridge.
    Reports and working papers. .
  • Li, P. (2017). Patents, mass innovation and the Xiaokang society. WIPO Journal, 8(1), 97-108.
    Article. .
  • de Rosnay, M. D., & Guadamuz, A. (2017). Memory hole or right to delist? Implications of the right to be forgotten on web archiving. RESET, 6, 1-22. doi:10.4000/reset.807
    Article. .
  • Lampoltshammer, T. J., Guadamuz, A., Wass, C., & Heistracher, T. (2017). Openlaws.eu. In Advances in Public Policy and Administration (pp. 173-190). IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0717-8.ch009
    Chapter. .

2016

  • Frabboni, M. (2016). France. In Moral Rights, 2nd Edition (pp. 415-454). Sweet and Maxwell.
    Chapter. .
  • Frabboni, M. (2016). Italy. In Moral Rights, 2nd Edition (pp. 539-560). Sweet and Maxwell.
    Chapter. .
  • Li, P. (2016). Regulation of bio-3D printing in the UK. In International Symposium of Additive Manufacturing Taiwan. Taipei, Taiwan.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (2016). Intellectual property of 3D printing. In International Symposium of Additive Manufacturing Taiwan. Taipei, Taiwan.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (2016). Risk, intellectual property and food labelling. In International Summer School (Food law and policy course). University of East Finland.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P., & Griffin, J. (2016). The necessity of 'privacy justice' in the era of technological regulation. In 35th Annual ATRIP Congress: Intellectual Property as Functional Pluralism: the Parameters, Challenges and Opportunities of Variation. Krakow, Poland.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (2016). 3D bioprinting technologies: patents, innovation and access. In Brocher Foundation Workshop. 3D bioprinting: a new medical and ethical frontier?. Geneva.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (2016). Towards mass entrepreneurship and innovation: the case of 3D printing in healthcare delivery. In Department of Public Administration Research Seminar. Central South University, Changsha, China.
    Presentation. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2016). The monkey selfie: copyright lessons for originality in photographs and internet jurisdiction. Internet Policy Review, 5(1), pages. doi:10.14763/2016.1.398
    Article. .

2015

  • Guadamuz, A., & Marsden, C. (2015). Blockchains and Bitcoin: regulatory responses to cryptocurrencies. First Monday, 20(12), 1-46. doi:10.5210/fm.v20i12.6198
    Article. .
  • Li, P. (2015). Medical 3D printing, risk regulation, and intellectual property. In Conference on Innovation and Communications Law. Xiamen, China.
    Presentation. .
  • Barnett, S., & Townend, J. (2015). Introduction. In Media Power and Plurality. Springer Nature. doi:10.1057/9781137522849.0005
    Chapter. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2015). Free and Open Source Software: Policy, Law and Practice. QUEEN MARY JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, 5(4), 530-531. doi:10.4337/qmjip.2015.04.12
    Article. .
  • Li, P. (2015). 3D printing, innovation and intellectual property: two case scenarios. In International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property 2015 Congress. Cape Town.
    Presentation. .

2014

  • Li, P. (2014). 3D bioprinting technologies: patents, innovation, and access. Law, Innovation and Technology, 6(2), 282-304. doi:10.5235/17579961.6.2.282
    Article. .
  • Guadamuz, A. (2014). Development in Internet liability. In Research handbook on EU Internet law (pp. 312-366). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
    Chapter. .
  • Li, P. (2014). Inequality and intellectual property: patenting genetic diagnostic methods after Myriad. In Genetics, Genomics and Global Health - Inequalities, Identities and Insecurities, 4th Annual Global Health Conference. Sussex.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (2014). Regulation of science and technology: a comparative study between ancient and contemporary China. In BILETA 29th Annual Conference. University of East Anglia.
    Presentation. .
  • Guadamuz, A., & Cabell, D. (2014). Data mining In UK higher education institutions: law and policy. Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 4(1), 3-29. doi:10.4337/qmjip.2014.01.01
    Article. .
  • Li, P. (2014). Health technologies and international intellectual property law: a precautionary approach. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203550663
    Book. .
  • Li, P., Mellor, S., Griffin, J., Waelde, C., Hao, L., & Everson, R. (2014). Intellectual property and 3D printing: a case study on 3D chocolate printing. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 9, 322-332. doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpt217
    Article. .
  • Li, P. (2014). Health technologies and international intellectual property law: a precautionary approach. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203550663
    Book. .
  • Li, P., Mellor, S., Griffin, J., Waelde, C., Hao, L., & Everson, R. (2014). Intellectual property and 3D printing: a case study on 3D chocolate printing. doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpt217
    Presentation. .

2013

  • Li, P. (2013). Rights and responsibilities in patents: a precautionary patent framework in WTO law. European Intellectual Property Review, 35(9), 519-526.
    Article. .
  • Li, P. (2013). The price of life: intellectual property, patents and standards in global health. In Pharmaceuticals and Global Health: Inequalities and Innovation in the 21st Century. ßÏßÏÊÓÆµ Conference Centre Brighton, United Kingdom.
    Presentation. .

2012

  • Li, P., Mellor, S., Griffin, J., Waelde, C., & Liang, H. (2012). Intellectual property and 3D printing: a case study on 3D chocolate printing. In Bridging the Gaps: The Exeter Science Exchange Workshop - 3D-Printing Workshop: Legal Challenges. Exeter University.
    Presentation. .
  • Brown, A., & Li, P. (2012). New conversations: the BILETA and Information Technology Think Tank collaborative consultation response programme. European Journal of Technology and Law, 3(1), pages.
    Article. .

2010

  • Frabboni, M. (2010). Italy. In Moral rights (pp. 461-480). Sweet & Maxwell.
    Chapter. .

2006

  • Guadamuz, A. (2006). Book Reviews. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 14(2), 252-254. doi:10.1093/ijlit/eal004
    Article. .

2004

  • Guadamuz, A. (2004). Why SOL?. SCRIPT-ed, 1(1), 3-4. doi:10.2966/scrip.010104.3
    Article. .

2002

  • Stirling, A., Harremoës, P., Gee, D., MacGarvin, M. M., Keys, J. J., Vaz, S., & Wynne, B. (2002). Conclusions. In The Precautionary Principle in the Twentieth Century: late lessons from early warnings (pp. pages). Earthscan.
    Chapter. .

Unpublished works

  • Li, P., Brown, A., & Rauhofer, J. (n.d.). Responses to consultations – the BILETA contribution. In British and Irish Legal Education and Technology Association Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (n.d.). IP, precaution and public health. In European Association of Health Law Conference. Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P., & Lim, P. H. (n.d.). A precautionary approach to compulsory licensing and tempering the data exclusivity obstacle for access to medicines. In British and Irish Legal Education and Technology Association 2013 Annual Conference. University of Liverpool.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P. (n.d.). Mass customisation governance: regulation, liability and intellectual property of re-distributed manufacturing in 3D printing. In Taipei Representative Office in the UK Symposium in Science & Technology Academic Research. Southampton.
    Presentation. .
  • Li, P., & Griffin, J. (n.d.). 3D printing and intellectual property research in the UK. In 3D Printing and Intellectual Property Seminar. Central South University, Changsha, China.
    Presentation. .
  • Lim, P. -H., & Li, P. (n.d.). Patentability of Biofabricated Human Organs: ‘Products of Nature’ or ‘Products Derived from Nature’ Revisited. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4286668
    Preprint. .
  • Aplin, T. F., Schafer, B., & Li, P. (n.d.). Response to UK IPO Open Consultation on AI and IP: Copyright and Patents. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4003626
    Preprint. .
  • Morita-Jaeger, M., Li, P., Ropez, J., Perdana, A., & Arfin, S. (n.d.). The UK’s data governance regime and the (challenging) data partnership with Indonesia. Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP). Retrieved from https://citp.ac.uk/
    Reports and working papers.

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