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Profiles
Dr Nicholas Gervassis
Lecturer in Law
School of Law, Criminology and Government (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Qualifications
Ph.D in Law (University of Edinburgh)
LL.M. in Innovation, Technology and the Law (University of Edinburgh)
LL.B. (Hons.) (Demokritos University of Thrace, Greece)
FHEA (Fellow of The Higher Education Academy)
Professional membership
The Society of Legal Scholars
International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy
Socio-Legal Studies Association
Global Internet Governance Academic Network
Open Rights Group Academic Network
Research interests
Law & Society
Jurisprudence
Information Technology Law, Digital Rights
Intellectual Property Law
Corporate Social Responsibility
Human Rights & Civil Liberties
Articles
- (with P. Voyatzis) “Back to (con)textuality: using chat services to teach legal reasoning", European Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2017, online at http://ejlt.org/article/view/550
- “The Dehumanisation of Law: Digital Reflections”, European Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2012, online at http://ejlt.org//article/view/102/263
- "The 20 Questions Game: The Journey to Personhood", Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007, pp. 155 - 185
- “In Search of the Value of Online Electronic Personae: Commercial MMORPGs and the Terms of Participation in Virtual Communities”, Journal of Information Law and Technology, Issue 3, 2004, online at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2004_3/gervassis/
- “From Laws for Cyberspace to Cyber Laws (literally): Integration of Legal Norms into Internet Protocols & Law for Closed Digital Management Communities”, SCRIPT-ed, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2004, pp. 307 – 318, online at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/scripted/issue2/cyberlaw.asp
Book Chapters
- (with A. Brown and R. Mukonoweshuro) “Corporate Social Responsibility, Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries”, in A. Brown & C. Waelde (Eds.) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property andCreative Industries, 2018, pp. 326 - 347, Edward Elgar (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series)
Proceedings Publications
- (with B. Schäfer) “How to Derive an ‘Ought’ from a ‘Can not’: Virtual Laws, Artificial Societies and the Idea of Designing out Crime in Cyberspace”, Cyberspace 2004 Conference, Brno, Czech Republic