About
Uta (BA/LLB First Class, University of Tasmania, 1997; PhD, University of Canberra, 2003) started her academic career at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2000) and has been a Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Southampton since 2018, where she teaches mainly in commercial law modules.
Her research reputation is based on her work in Law and Technology, in particular her monograph Jurisdiction and the Internet (CUP, 2007, ppb 2010), her edited collections The Net and the Nation State (CUP, 2017) and Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (CUP, 2021, co-editor J. Eisler) and her co-authored textbook Information Technology Law (5th ed, 2016, co-authors D. Rowland and A. Charlesworth).
Uta organised an interdisciplinary ‘Internet Jurisdiction’ symposium funded by Google Inc in 2014, sat on the board of trustees of the Internet Watch Foundation (2014-2020) and is currently a co-investigator on a Leverhulme Research Grant on post-mortem privacy rights in the digital age. She has been a visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan (2017-2019), Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest (2018) and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2019).
Feb-July 2023: Research Scholar at MIT (Dept of Political Science) in collaboration with Prof Nazli Choucri
Research
Research interests
- Platform economy
- Jurisdiction in public and private international law
- Freedom of expression
- Privacy and data protection law
- Corporate governance; business and human rights
Current research
Uta's research interests lie in two broad areas: internet governance and corporate governance, with particular focus on their international dimensions.
She has written on internet jurisdiction in public and private international law, intermediary liability, the regulation of online speech, online privacy and post-mortem privacy as well as data protection law from transnational and comparative perspectives. Uta is also interested in corporate governance and has investigated the legal framework that facilitates corporate human rights abuses at the transnational level, that is the intersection of human rights law and jurisdiction/territoriality in the context of multinational corporations.
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Teaching
Uta has taught on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
She has been the module co-ordinator and lecturer of:
- Introduction to Commercial Law (UG)
- Foundations of Data Protection Law (UG)
- International Commercial Litigation (PG)
- Business and Human Rights (PG)
Biography
Uta joined Southampton Law School in 2018 after having worked at the Department of Law and Criminology of Aberystwyth University since 2000.
She received a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Tasmania (1997), a Diploma of Legal Practice from the ANU (1998) and a PhD from the University of Canberra (2003).
Uta has written extensively on internet governance issues, including the monograph Jurisdiction and the Internet (CUP, 2007), the edited collection The Net and the Nation State (CUP, 2017) and the co-authored textbook Information Technology Law (5thed, Routledge, 2016), as well as on corporate governance, e.g. ‘Territoriality and Globalization’ in the Oxford Handbook on Jurisdiction (2018).