Professor Stephen Saxby
Position: Professor 
Research interests
His research interest lies in the field of public policy towards information and communications technology. He has conducted consultancy for the European Commission, Ordnance Survey, the European Association for Geographic Information and the Countryside Agency and has advised government on these issues.
Research projects
In 2005 Professor Saxby continued his series of academic papers on the subject of UK Crown Copyright policy that he has studied for the past 10 years. His latest paper entitled Crown Copyright Regulation in the UK – Is the debate still alive? can be found at 13 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 2, (Winter 2005) 299-335.
In 2006 Professor Saxby has been on research leave funded in the second semester by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. During the first part of his leave he completed research conducted for the Countryside Agency in his capacity as Associate of the GeoData Institute of Southampton University. This work also builds on his research links with Ordnance Survey whose National Headquarters are found in Southampton. The first of the two papers entitled ‘Public Policy and the development of a UK National Geographic Information Strategy’ can be found at 14 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 2, (Summer 2006) 147-194.
Biographical notes
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BA (Kent) 1972; Cert Ed (Lond) 1977; MBCS 1992; PhD (Soton) 1996. Solicitor, 1976. Reader in Information Technology Law.
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Since 1977 Professor Saxby has pioneered the introduction of Information Technology Law into the LLB and LLM curriculum at Southampton. In 1981 he introduced the first such course in the UK to feature in the undergraduate curriculum. This course in now in its 25th year at Southampton. In 1991 he introduced the first postgraduate course to examine European Union legal policy towards regulation of information technology and in 2007-08 he is offering the first IT law course to focus exclusively on public policy. This will be available to both LLB and LLM students
Publications
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His thesis on regulation of the market in digital information.
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The second paper entitled ‘Public Policy and the digital spatial representation of designated land use in the UK’ will be published in [2007] 19 Journal of Environmental Law in two parts. See further: http://jel.oxfordjournals.org/
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In semester two Professor Saxby was funded by the AHRC to produce a monograph entitled ‘A Critical Analysis of the Synergy between eGovernment and related Policies in the UK’. This has since been published in [2006] Computer and Telecommunications Law Review 179-215.
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He is founding editor of The Computer Law and Security Report, 1985 (Elsevier Ltd) now in its 23rd year under his editorship. CLSR is read in more than 45 countries and is the leading UK publication of its kind publishing the best writing in the field from both academic and practitioner sources. Through CLSR links have been established with leading research centres around the world specialising in IT law including those the Centre for Law and Information at Namur, the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law in Oslo and the Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney. Links also exist with approximately one dozen of the leading IT law firms based in London and internationally.
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He is also founding editor ofThe Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law (Sweet and Maxwell Ltd 1990). This loose-leaf work provides analysis of UK IT Law and is contributed to by leading academics and UK law firms practising in the field.See: Sweet and Maxwell's website
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Among his other work he is the author of two books: The Age of Information, 1990 (Macmillan/New York University Press) and Public Policy and Legal Regulation of the Information Market in the Digital Network Environment 1996 (CompLex Series, Oslo University).
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