Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
Professor
Bond University Faculty of Law
Dan Svantesson is a Professor at the Bond University Faculty of Law, and a Co-Director for the Centre for Space, Cyberspace and Data Law. He is a Senior Fellow at the Social Cyber Institute, and an Associated Researcher at the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University. He specialises in international aspects of the IT society and has published a range of books and articles on that topic and beyond, and given presentations in Australia, Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe.
Professor Svantesson held an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016) and was the inaugural Managing Editor for International Data Privacy Law, published by Oxford University Press. He is a Member of the Editorial Boards for several journals, including the Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal, the International Cybersecurity Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, the Commonwealth Law Bulletin, the International Review of Law Computers and Technology, the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology and the Computer Law and Security Review.
Professor Svantesson has contributed to commissioned reports by several international organisations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, OECD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network. He has been identified as the Field Leader for “Technology Law” in a study published by League of Scholars together with The Australian for four years (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018).
During his fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Professor Svantesson’s will aim to develop a set of ready-to-implement (‘plug and play’) model provisions addressing jurisdiction and sovereignty suitable for being incorporated in international instruments.
Selected Publications:
Private International Law and the Internet 4th Ed, Kluwer Law International (2021) (836 pages)
Solving the Internet Jurisdiction Puzzle, Oxford University Press (2017) (288 pages)
Information Sovereignty – Data Privacy, Sovereign Powers and the Rule of Law, Edward Elgar Publishing (2017) (with Radim Polcak) (268 pages)
Extraterritoriality in Data Privacy Law, Ex Tuto Publishing (2013) (240 pages)
Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Systems for Judicial Decision-Making in Criminal Justice Systems, Commonwealth Secretariat (September 2021) (24 pages)
(With multiple co-authors) Developing Concept of Sovereignty: Considerations for Defence Operations in Cyberspace and Outer Space, Australian Defence Strategic Policy Grants Program (July 2021) (88 pages)
Data localisation trends and challenges: Considerations for the review of the Privacy Guidelines, OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 301, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/7fbaed62-en (December 2020) (44 pages)
Internet & Jurisdiction Global Status Report 2019, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network (November 2019) (184 pages)
(With Michal Czerniawski) Challenges to the extraterritorial enforcement of data privacy law – EU case study, in Daniel Westman et al., (eds.), Dataskyddet 50 år – historia, aktuella problem och framtid (2023) pp. 127-154
A Starting Point for Re-thinking 'Sovereignty' for the Online Environment, in Anupam Chander & Haochen Sun (eds.), Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State, Oxford University Press (2023) pp. 49-71
Global speech regulation: extraterritoriality in the context of internet content blocking, removal, de-listing, and must carry orders, in Austen Parrish & Cedric Ryngaert (eds.), Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing (2023) pp. 459-476
Is International Law Ready for the (Already Ongoing) Digital Age: Perspectives from Private and Public International Law, in Preadviezen: International Law for a Digital World: Collected Papers 147, Asser Press (2020) pp. 113-155
Internet Jurisdiction and Intermediary Liability, in Giancarlo Frosio (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability, Oxford University Press (2020) pp. 691-708
Article 3. Territorial Scope, in Christopher Kuner et al. (eds), The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary, Oxford University Press (2020) pp. 74-99
Legal Theories of Private International Law: Overview and Practical Implications for Internet Regulation, in Patrik Lindskoug et al., (eds.), Essays in Honour of Michael Bogdan, Juristförlaget i Lund (2013); 539-555
Cross-border internet defamation conflicts and what to do about them: Two proposals, Journal of Private International Law Vol 19 No 2 (2023) (With Symeon C. Symeonides); pp. 137-185
Regulating a “Cyber Militia” – Some Lessons from Ukraine, and Thoughts about the Future", Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 6(1) (2023), pp. 86–101
(With Samuli Haataja, Danielle Ireland-Piper & Kuan-Wei Chen) On sovereignty, Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology 17(1) (2023) pp. 33-85
“Scope of Jurisdiction” – A Key Battleground for Private International Law Applied to the Internet, Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume 22 (2020/2021), pp. 245-274
‘Lagom jurisdiction’ – What Viking drinking etiquette can teach us about Internet jurisdiction and Google France, Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology 12(1) (2018) pp. 29-47
Jurisdiction in 3D – “scope of (remedial) jurisdiction” as a third dimension of jurisdiction, Journal of Private International Law Vol 12 No 1 (2016); pp. 60-76
A Jurisprudential Justification for Extraterritoriality in (Private) International Law, Santa Clara Journal of International Law 13(2) (2015) pp. 517-571
The Extraterritoriality of EU Data Privacy Law - Its Theoretical Justification and Its Practical Effect on U.S. Businesses, Stanford Journal of International Law 50(1) (2014); pp. 53-102
A “layered approach” to the extraterritoriality of data privacy laws, International Data Privacy Law (2013) 3(4); pp. 278-286
A legal method for solving issues of Internet regulation; applied to the regulation of cross-border privacy issues, European University Institute Working Paper LAW2010/18 (57 pages)
Borders on, or border around – the future of the Internet, Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2006); pp. 343 – 381
Geo-location technologies and other means of placing borders on the ‘borderless’ Internet, John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Vol XXIII, No 1, Fall 2004; pp. 101 – 139
A Vision for the Future of Private International Law and the Internet – Can Artificial Intelligence Succeed Where Humans Have Failed?, Harvard International Law Journal Online (4 August, 2019) https://harvardilj.org/2019/08/a-vision-for-the-future-of-private-international-law-and-the-internet-can-artificial-intelligence-succeed-where-humans-have-failed/
A New Jurisprudential Framework for Jurisdiction: Beyond the Harvard Draft, 109 American Journal of International Law Unbound 69 (2015) https://www.asil.org/blogs/new-jurisprudential-framework-jurisdiction-beyond-harvard-draft