Mr Gavin Sutter, LLB, LLM (Queens, Belfast)
Lecturer in Media Law
Location: Lincoln's Inn Fields
email: g.p.sutter@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8082
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 8101
Gavin Sutter read Honours Law at Queen's University, Belfast between 1994-1997. During 1997-98 he read for the LLM Degree of Computers and Law, graduating with distinction in December 1998 before joining the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in February 1999.
Publications:
- Legal Protection of Copy-Protection Mechanisms (with Dr. Martina Gillen) in Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA Vol 51 No 4
- Sutter [2007] “Online Intermediary Liability” in Reed & Angel (eds) Computer Law (6th Edition), OUP, Oxford ISBN 978-0-19-920596-7
- Sutter [2006] “One Way or Another? Is it time for the introduction of the single publication rule in English defamation law?”, Contemporary Issues in Law Vol 7 Issue 4, ISSN: 1357-0374
- Internet Service Providers and Liability, in M. Klang and A. Murray (Editors), Human Rights in the Digital Age, London: Routledge, 2005, 71-84, ISBN: 1904385311
- Defamation on the Net, in S. Stokes and R. Carolins (Editors), Encyclopedia of E-commerce Law, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2004, 17-1 to 17-50, ISBN: 0421742607
- Electronic Commerce (Co-author with C. Reed), in C. Reed and J. Angel (Editors), Computer Law, 5ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 331-392, ISBN: 0199263507 [URL]
- Penny Dreadfuls and Perverse Domains: Victorian and Modern Moral Panics, in J. Rowbotham and K. Stevenson (Editors), Behaving Badly: Visible Crime, Social Panics and Legal Responses - Victorian and Modern Parallels, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ISBN: 0754609650
- Don't shoot the messenger? The evolution of liability for third party provided content in the UK [2003] 17(1) International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 73-84, ISSN: 1360-0869
- Directive 97/7/EC on the Protection of Consumers in Respect of Distance Contracts (Co-author with Dr J. Hornle and I. Walden), in A. Lodder and H. Kaspersen (Editors), eDirectives: Guide to European Union Law on E-Commerce, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 11-22, ISBN: 9041117520
- Electronic Payments: The Smart Card (Co-author with S. Newman) [2002] 18(4-5) Computer Law and Security Report 235-240 and 307-313, ISSN: 0267-3649
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: An Update Part One: Interception of Content and An Update Part Two: Communications Data, Encryption, Scrutiny and the Way Ahead [2002] 4(11-12) Electronic Business Law 4-7 and 4-6, ISSN: 1464-9624
- Publish and be damned? [2001] 3(11) Electronic Business Law 5-7, ISSN: 1464-9624
- To have and to hold and to handover: data security and data handover (Co-author with Gillen) [2001] 3(9) Electronic Business Law 11-13, ISSN: 1464-9624
- Big Brother goes online: e-mail monitoring and interception 2001 [2001] 3(2) Electronic Business Law 9-12, ISSN: 1464-9624
Research interests:
Gavin's personal research interests include a wide range of content regulations issues as they apply to material on the internet (e.g. obscenity, defamation, copyright infringement). He has also been actively involved in a wide range of other research, including the interception of electronic communications for the purposes of criminal investigations, the enforcement of Internet regulation and electronic payment systems.