Law And Terrorism:The Security vs. Privacy Debate

Welcome from the President

Dear all,

Welcome to the second annual Bristol Law Conference! On behalf of the Law Conference Committee I am delighted to invite everyone back to the Wills Memorial Building to build on the incredible success of the inaugural Law Conference last year. Our hope is that this Con-ference may do justice to the legacy co-founders Steven Hunter and Ross Burrell have left us and maintain Bristol’s position on the map as a centre of legal excellence.

This year’s theme is ‘Law and Terrorism: The Security vs. Privacy Debate’. In light of recent events, and the future of terrorist acts and counter-terrorism strategy, the countervailing inter-ests of security and privacy have situated this debate amongst the top issues in law and poli-cymaking at present. The National Security Agency’s PRISM scandal and the involvement of various cooperating countries, including the United Kingdom; companies such as Microsoft; the alleged extent of snooping on foreign diplomats and civilians: all of this reveals that pri-vacy as we know it, or perceive it to exist, is changing. It has become increasingly easy for third parties to access and utilise private information, and the gravity of the legal and social questions which this evokes is difficult to overstate.

The Conference will provide a forum for discussion of the evolving notion of privacy, the le-gal and social impacts of this shift and, more specifically, how this relates to the promotion of security. We are very fortunate to have such a distinguished group of speakers and we extend our thanks to all of them for agreeing to be here today.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my wonderful committee for the incredible amount of effort they have put in for the past many months to make this Conference a reality. A special thank you goes out to Daniel Frawley and Anna Rainsford who have dedicated their time to helping us.

Thanks must be given also to our generous law firm sponsors. Without their support, none of this would be possible. If you have not already spoken to them at the stalls towards the back of the Great Hall, we encourage you to do so. They will also be available after the Conference to chat with you over some refreshments.

We are also very grateful to the Law School and the University for all their support, particu-larly the administrative staff, finance department, technical assistants, conference office team and press office.

Finally, thank you all for attending the Conference today. We are very excited to have you here and we hope you will enjoy and participate in the discussion.

Nicole Wong President

Organising CommitteeNicole WongPresident

Nicole is a second-year M.A. Law student from Hong Kong with a B.A. Psychology from the University of Melbourne. She also currently holds the positions of Careers Secretary of the University of Bristol Law Club (UBLC), Founder of the UBLC Commercial Awareness Programme and Editor-in-Chief of the Bristol Law Review. After graduation, she plans on becoming a solicitor in the City, but not before undertaking an LL.M. When she has time to unwind, she enjoys reading Vogue, drinking wine and having extended dinners with close friends.

Chris WebbTreasurer

Chris is a second-year LL.B. student from Dorset. He is also the General Secretary of the University of Bristol Law Club. He plans on becoming an academic in the future, either in law or international relations. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to 70s and 80s disco-funk, reading about American foreign policy and cycling through the Dorset countryside.

Ashley WarnerSpeaker Liaison

Ashley is a second-year M.A. Law student from Denver, Colo-rado, USA. Before living in England, she completed her under-graduate studies at the University of Colorado with degrees in Political Science and International Affairs. She hopes to use her policy and law backgrounds to promote corporate respon-sibility in developing nations. When not working on the Law Conference, Ashley spends her time volunteering for UNICEF, mountaineering and travelling.

Organising CommitteeJoanna BassettSponsor Liaison

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Kate is a second-year LL.B. student from Buckinghamshire. Over the summer, she worked as a research assistant on an intellectual property case for a specialist media lawyer. Upon graduation, she intends to spend a year see the world before pursuing a career in the city. In her free time, she travels the country with the Crew Clothing Events Team.

Emma LeongLogistics Co-ordinator

Emma is a second-year LLB student from Singapore. She com-pleted two litigation internships over summer, and hopes to be a litigator with a heart for the under-privileged. Apart from law, she is keen on social policy and has previously worked in a governmental department overseeing the legislation of fami-ly policy. Hailing from a bustling metropolis, she enjoys being outdoors and has done the Bristol 10K, cycled to Bath and (al-most) flew on a hot-air balloon.

Agenda

Time Description

13.00-13.30 Registration

13:30 - 13:50 Welcome

13:50 - 14:10 Robert Buckland MP

14:10 - 14:30 Professor Andrew Murray

14:30 – 14:50 Marie Anderson

14:50 – 15:10 Dr. Theo Tryfonas

15:10 – 15:30 Richard Norton-Taylor

15:30 – 16:30 Q&A

16:30 Onwards Refreshments and networking with sponsors and speakers

SpeakersRobert Buckland MP

Member of Parliament (Conservative, South Swindon) and Barrister

Robert entered Parliament in 2010. He was elected to the Justice Select Committee, serving until 2013. Robert currently sits on the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Commons Standards Committee and the Commons Privileges Committee. His main interests are justice, home affairs, international affairs, education and disability issues. In 2011, Robert was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. In 2012 he was elected Joint Secretary of the 1922 Committee.

Robert was born in Llanelli in 1968 and graduated in Law from Durham University in 1990. Robert returned to practise in Wales and in 2009 was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown Court, sitting on the Midland Circuit.

In 1997, Robert married Sian, whom he met at University. In 2002, their twin children Millicent and George, were born. Rob-ert’s interests include music, wine, political history and watching rugby and cricket.

Professor Andrew MurrayProfessor of Law at the London School of Economics

Andrew is Professor in Law at the London School of Econom-ics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a mem-ber of the Executive Board of Creative Commons UK and an Expert Panellist for The ICC International Centre for Expertise in relation to limited public interest objections for new generic Top-Level Domain Names. As well as holding memberships of: The Society of Computers and Law (SCL); The Higher Educa-tion Academy (HEA) and The David Hume Institute, Andrew was from 2001-2004 an Executive Member of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA); and was from 2002-2008 a recognised Independent Expert for the Nomi-net UK Dispute Resolution Procedure and was from 2007-2012 a Fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn.

Andrew is author of over forty books, articles and commentaries on Cyberlaw issues, including the books Information Technolo-gy Law: The Law and Society 2ed, OUP, 2013 and The Regula-tion of Cyberspace: Control in the Online Environment, Rout-ledge-Cavendish, 2007. He is also co-editor of Human Rights in the Digital Age, Glasshouse Press, 2006. His most recent papers include ‘Nodes and Gravity in Virtual Space’ Legisprudence and ‘Transparency, Scrutiny and Responsiveness: Fashioning a Pri-vate Space within the Information Society’ Political Quarterly. He has also recently published book chapters on international informational governance for the Handbook on the Politics of Regulation (ed. David Levi-Faur) and Realizing Utopia: The Fu-ture of International Law: (ed. Antonio Cassese).

Marie AndersonFormer Assistant Information Commissioner For Northern Ireland

Marie is a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, and quali-fied as a solicitor in 1985. After qualifying she worked in private practice for 31/2 years in the area of civil litigation. Thereafter, she joined the Housing Executive and worked as Legal Assis-tant, Senior Legal Assistant and Legal Advisor, over a period totalling 17 years. The focus of her work was human rights law; information law; and judicial review.

She became the first Assistant Information Commissioner for Northern Ireland in April 2003 and was responsible for setting up the regional office in Belfast. She held this post for a period of 5 years with responsibility for regulating DPA, FOI, and environ-mental information matters in Northern Ireland. She oversaw the investigation of highly sensitive information cases, including one relating to the £26.5 million Northern Bank Robbery, which was one of the biggest bank robberies in UK history.

She left this position and returned to private practice for a short period of 18 months, where she advised large commercial firms on information law and the law of confidence. During this peri-od she also dealt with a number of medical negligence claims for private individuals.

On 1 May 2009 she was appointed as Deputy Ombudsman/Commissioner for Complaints. She retains her legal practising certificate and is currently master to a pupil solicitor in the Om-budsman’s office.

Dr. Theo TryfonasSenior Lecturer in Systems Engineering at the University of Bristol

Theo is a Senior Lecturer in Systems Engineering with a background in computer security and software development. He works with the Cryptography Group and the Systems Centre and am involved in doctoral supervision with the engineer-ing doctorate (EngD) in Systems, as well as with teaching across the University of Bristol Computer Science MSc and the undergraduate programmes of Engineering Design and Civil Engineering.

Theo graduated with a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Crete in Greece. He then moved to Athens to complete his postgraduate studies, first at master’s (Information Systems) and then at doctoral level (Informatics). Theo’s PhD was sponsored by Ernst & Young, and is a Chartered Professional Member of the Chartered Institute for IT (MBCS CITP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) member of ISACA. He is also a member of the International Coun-cil on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Theo’s work extends broadly to security penetration testing and digital forensics. In the context of the former he is interested in methodologies, techniques and tools for assessing security of computing technology, developing an understanding of emerging threats as well as extracting lessons for the design of secure systems. With respect to the latter, Theo’s work explores human and technical aspects of the analysis of digital evidence and its challenges in a national and international context.

Theo is further interested in aspects of professional responsibility of ethical hackers and forensic investigators, such as codes of conduct, standardisation of reporting, impact of locality and national cultures etc. As an educator Theo is also interested in the ways that cybersecurity skills should be delivered in the context of higher education.

Richard Norton-TaylorFormer Security & Defence Editor of the Guardian

Richard was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, Hertford College, Oxford, and the College of Europe, Bruges. He joined the Guardian in 1973 as the newspaper’s first European correspondent based in Brussels and returned to Britain in 1975 when he campaigned against official secrecy and investigating decision-making in Whitehall, including the activities of the security and intelligence services.

Richard was Guardian’s security and defence editor, 1998-2011. He won the Free-dom of Information Campaign Award for in 1986 and again in 1994.

His books include: Whose Land Is It Anyway?, an investigation into land owner-ship; Blacklist, The Inside Story of Political Vetting, In Defence of the Realm ? The case for Accountable Security and Intelligence Services (Civil Liberties Trust, 1990); A Conflict of Loyalties, GCHQ, 1984-1991; Truth is A Difficult Concept: Inside the Scott Inquiry, Contributor to Knee Deep in Dishonour, an account of the arms-to-Iraq affair; Sleaze, The Corruption of Parliament; The Liar; The War We Could Not Stop (2003).

His award-winning plays, most of which have been broadcast by the BBC, include Half the Picture, (1994) Nuremberg (1946); The Colour of Justice (1999); Justifying War (2004); Bloody Sunday (2005); Called to Account (2007), a hearing on the cir-cumstances of Tony Blair’s action in leading Britain into the Iraq war; and Tactical Questioning (2011).

Richard is a Member of the Advisory Council of the Royal United Services Institute and the Policy Council of Liberty, the National Council for Civil Liberties. He was awarded Liberty’s Human Rights Campaign of the Year Award in 2010.

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