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Professor Philip Leith
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Contact Details
Email address p.leith@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3867
Room 30.201, 30 University Square
Biography
Philip Leith is Professor of Law at Queen's University Belfast. He has degrees in sociology, systems analysis, computer science and law. Books published:
The Jurisprudence of Orthodoxy: Queen's University Essays on H.L.A.Hart. editor (with P.Ingram), Routledge, 1988.
Formalism in AI and Computer Science, Ellis Horwood/Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1990.
The Computerised Lawyer, Springer-Verlag, London, New York and Berlin, 1991.
The Barrister's World and the Nature of Law, (with John Morison), Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1992. Also published by Ahditat Books, New Dehli, 1993. Full text.
The Computerised Lawyer (2nd Fully Revised Edition - with Amanda Hoey), Springer-Verlag, London, New York and Berlin 1998.
Harmonisation of Intellectual Property in Europe: a case study in patent procedure, Vol. 3, Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 1998. Full text.
In addition, Professor Leith is author of more than 50 articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books covering a variety of topics including computer science, jurisprudence, intellectual property and eGovernment. He is presently undertaking research in litigation in Intellectual Property (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), definition of software patents, expanding the legal information marketplace as part of an eContent project (EU funded) and privacy/data protection and trust issues in eGovernment.
Professor Leith was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, a visiting professor at the Maximillians University in Munich, and is presently a Research Associate at the AHRB IP Centre in Edinburgh University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Governance at Queen’s. He has been an active participant in a number of exchange programmes including the Eulisp programme (European law schools teaching IT Law) and has now become a member of an Alfa project (South American developments in IT Law).
He has been active with the British & Irish Law and Technology Association (BILETA) since its inception (including having been Chair), is currently a Trustee of the British & Irish Legal Information Institute ( BAILII ) and has in the recent past been active with the Society for Computers and Law, both in Northern Ireland and as a council member.
His current teaching includes the undergraduate module, Law and the Information Society.
He is external examer for a number of universities focusing on intellectual property and information technology courses: LLM, Intellectual Property Unit, QMW LLM & LLB, Cork, Galway, UCD. LLM in IT Law, Strathclyde.
Recent articles include:
Judicial and Administrative Roles: the patent appellate system in a European Context, in Intellectual Property Quarterly, Issue 1, 2001.
Developments in UK Court Technology, in IT Support for the Judiciary, Lodder & Oskamp, Schmidt (eds), Kluwer. 2001.
IT and the Future of Law, Legal Executive, Feb 2001.
Revision of the EPC, the Community Patent Regulation and European Technical judges, European Intellectual Property Review, 2001.
From Operational Strategy to Serving the Customer: Technology and ethics in welfare law, in International Review of Law Computers and Technology, 2001. With R. Geary.
Legal Education in Spain: becoming a Lawyer, Judge, and Professor, in International Journal of the Legal Profession, 2001. With Fernando Galindo.
"Legal, Cultural and Technical Obstacles to the use of Court-Based Information", The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, Conference, March 2002.
"UK Online: Forcing citizen involvement into a technically-oriented framework?" Proceedings of DEXA-2002, E-Gov, France. With John Morison.
"Confidentiality, Privacy and E-Government: clarifying the notion of 'public space'", Teaching of e-Government: Legal, Economical and Technical Aspects, Albarracin, 2003.