'Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age' - Christopher Marsden and Ian Brown: CIPIL Seminar

Professor Christopher Marsden, University of Sussex, and Mr Ian Brown, Oxford University, gave an evening seminar entitled "Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age" on Thursday 10th May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Law at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, Internet Co-Regulation, and three other books. Ian Brown is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute. He is the editor of the Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this presentation, based on their recent book of the same title, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of ‘code’ – the technological environment of the Internet – to achieve more economically efficient and socially just regulation. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk