Ms Kuan Hon, MA (Cantab), LLM (UPenn), MSc (Imperial)
Research Consultant, Cloud Computing Project
Location: Lincoln's Inn Fields
email: w.k.hon@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8215
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 8101
Website: http://www.cloudlegal.ccls.qmul.ac.uk
Kuan Hon joined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in October 2010 as the Research Assistant to the Cloud Computing Legal Research Project which commenced in October 2009.
She was responsible during 2010-2011 for undertaking research and project coordination tasks in support of this Microsoft-funded programme to investigate the legal issues arising from the growing use of Cloud Computing. She remains consultant to the project on an ongoing part-time basis.
Kuan Hon originally qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and was admitted as an Attorney to the Bar of the State of New York. She then worked as a solicitor in the City of London, gaining broad experience in finance-related and commercial English legal issues (particularly banking, debt capital markets and corporate insolvency law).
Pursuing a long-standing interest in technology, she obtained an MSc in Computing Science with merit from Imperial College, London in 2009 and then an LLM in Computer and Communications Law with merit from Queen Mary, University of London in 2010.
Publications:
- 'Personal Data' in Cloud Computing - What Information is Regulated? The Cloud of Unknowing, Part 1 - March 2011
- Who is Responsible for 'Personal Data' in Cloud Computing? The Cloud of Unknowing, Part 2 - March 2011
Research interests:
Legal issues arising from the spread and adoption of Cloud Computing, particularly data protection, privacy and information governance.