Asma A.I. Vranaki

Contact Details:
Asma.Vranaki@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

 

 

 

Qualifications:

• Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law (now known as The City Law School), 2003.
• Masters of Law in Computer & Communications Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, 2002.
• LLB (Law), The London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London, 2001.

Appointments:

• Bar of England & Wales
• Bar of Mauritius

Awards:

Centre for Commercial Law Studies (QMW) Scholar (2001)

Bibliography:

Asma is currently reading for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates the role of law in protecting copyright and privacy interests in Online Social Networking Sites. She is also a part-time law lecturer in Jurisprudence at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Prior to joining the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Asma was appointed as a Bar Vocational Course Lecturer at the Inns of Court School of Law (now known as The City Law School) and lectured in Civil Advocacy, Opinion Writing, Legal Research, Civil Litigation & Evidence, Commercial Law, Company Law, Drafting and Negotiations.

Before that, following the successful completion of her pupillage, she practised as a commercial barrister specialising in all aspects of Commercial Law including Corporate Finance, Acquisition Finance, Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Telecommunications, E-Commerce, Re/Insurance and Contract.

Research Interests:

• Legal and regulatory issues presented by all aspects of cyberspace (including the participative web) in the US, EU, and UK.
• Protection of copyright and privacy interests in the Digital Age.
• Socio-legal theories (e.g. Foucault, Valverde, Levi).
• Science and Technology Studies (e.g. Latour, Callon) and their impact on traditional regulatory models.

Selected publications:

Peer-reviewed publications

• Forthcoming – ‘An alternative way of conceptualising the role of law and technological artefacts in protecting privacy and copyright interests in Online Social Networking Sites,’ to be submitted for consideration for publication in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
• September 2008 - ‘Wilson v. Yahoo! UK Ltd & Anor and the law on online sponsored links,’ 13(4) Communications Law, 135 - 137 (2008).
• March 2008 - ‘Compensation of Commercial Agents,’ 17(2) Modern Law Review, 271-279 (2008).

Practitioner`s publications

• 2005 - Co-author of an article on enforcement of foreign judgements in Mauritius.
• 2004 - Co-author of one chapter on Aviation Law in Mauritius for publication in Aircraft Finance (Sweet & Maxwell), a practitioner’s guide to Aviation Law covering 95 jurisdictions.

Book Reviews

• October 2008 - ‘The Regulation of Cyberspace: Control in the Online Environment by A.D. Murray,’ 1 Journal of Information Technology Law 2008 (Book Review).

 Conferences:

April 2010: ‘An alternative way of conceptualising the role of law and technological artefacts in protecting privacy and copyright interests in Online Social Networking Sites,’ Fourth International Graduate Legal Research Conference 2010,  King`s College London.

4 May 2009: ‘The role of law as a modality of power in protecting privacy and copyright interests in the participative web,’ presented at the CSLS Methods Conference, held by the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford.

March 2009: ‘The role of socio-cyber ties as a modality of power in Social Networking Sites,’ presented at the Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments Workshop, held by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Editorial positions:

2008 up-to-date: Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy (peer-reviewed journal)

Blog on internet law:

  CyberPanda  and via   @cyber_panda_