School of Law

Staff

Biography
Subhajit Basu graduated from University College of Law, Calcutta University (India) in 1997. He was called to the West Bengal Bar and worked as Solicitor and Advocate specialising in Corporate Law. He did PhD at the Liverpool John Moores University, on 'Taxation of E-Commerce from a Global Perspective' in 2003. He worked as the Research and Administrative Assistant for Ethnic Minority Law Network, a project funded by the UK Centre for Legal Education and Liverpool John Moores University.

He is the Book Review editor for International Review of Law Computers and Technology, Member of Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the Advances in Electronic Government Research (AEGR) Book Series, Member of Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of 'Collaborative Technologies and Applications for Interactive Information Design: Emerging Trends in User Experiences, Book Series,Reviewer for the Editorial Reviewer Board of the International Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR), International Review of Law Computers and Technology (IRLCT), Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), International Reviewer of Social Science Computer Review (SSCORE), Scientific Journals International (SJI)

In 2007 Subhajit was appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor, National University of Law (NLU) India .

Subhajit's biography has been included in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2006-2007,2007-2008, 2008-2009 for his contribution in the field of Social and Legal Science. He joined School of Law at Queen's University in September 2003.

Subhajit is extensively involved with research related to E-government-developing countries and the issue of digital divide. Governance of cyberspace and role of politics, technology and law in IT, precipitators of e-commerce crime as new form of white-collar crime, implication of information and communication technologies for the growth of criminal and deviant identities and behaviour on the Internet, role of technology in economic development of third world countries.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of BILETA. He is also a member of the Higher Education Academy, the Society of Legal Scholars, Tax Research Network (UK), Digital Divide Network and Member of LEFIS (EU Project on IT and Legal Education). Subhajit has recently authored a monograph entitled Global Perspectives on ECommerce Taxation Law, which appeared in the 'Market and Law' series of Ashgate Publishing. Further details of Subhajit's work.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Computers and Law

Undergraduate

• Law in the Information Society

• Contract Law

• Intellectual Property Law

Research

E-Commerce, Taxation of E-Commerce, E-commerce laws with special interest in E-commerce and Developing countries, Information and Technology Law