Research areas

The research project “Bio-privacy: Legal challenges of biometric identification and authentication” investigates the legal implications of biometric identification/verification schemes in terms of the effect of such schemes (and attendant regulation) on personal identity, privacy and security. The aim of this project is to critically assess and answer the following question: What are the privacy issues raised by the use of biometric technology and what might be the appropriate legal solutions?

Ability to form contract online is a fundamental requirement to the growth of E-commerce on the Internet. It is thus important to ensure that online contract is legally enforceable so that Internet users (consumers and businesses alike) are confident about the applicability of their e-commerce contractual arrangements.

Ability to form contract online is a fundamental requirement to the growth of E-commerce on the Internet. It is thus important to ensure that online contract is legally enforceable so that Internet users (consumers and businesses alike) are confident about the applicability of their e-commerce contractual arrangements.

Prosjektets fulle navn er Internet Governance: Infrastructure and Institutions. Det omhandler styring av Internett, med særlig fokus på organisering og styring av de underliggende strukturene.

The full name of the project is "Governance of the Domain Name System and the Future Internet: New Parameters, New Challenges"

In Richard Susskind’s book the Future of Law, the author predicted a paradigm shift in the approach to a legal problem, from problem solving to problem prevention.