Subhajit Basu is Senior Lecturer in CyberLaw at the School of Law, University of Leeds and Program Director of LLM CyberLaw. Previously he has taught at the Queen’s University Belfast, and he has a Ph.D. in Taxation of E-Commerce from Liverpool John Moores University. 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 specializing in Corporate Law. 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 (IRLCT) Associate Editor of the International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IRLCT),Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Information Law and Technology (JILT),Member of Editorial Board of Global Business and Management: An International Journal. Reviewer for the Editorial Reviewer Board of the International Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR),International Review of Law Computers and Technology, JILT, Scientific Journals International (SJI),International Reviewer of Social Science Computer Review (SSCORE) and Member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the Advances in Electronic Government Research (AEGR) Book Series, Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of AKCSN, Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Information and Communication Technologies and Human Development and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), Editorial Review Board member to the Economic and Administrative Series of the Annals of the University of Bucharest, EAS - AUB. Subhajit's biography has been included in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2006-2007, 2007-2008,2008-2009,2009-2010 for his contribution in the field of Social and Legal Science. 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 behavior 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 a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Member of the Society of Legal Scholars, Tax Research Network (UK), Digital Divide Network and Member and Reviewer of LEFIS (EU Project on IT and Legal Education), Member of European Association of Tax Law Professors Visiting Professor National Law University (NLU, India).
Articles
Direct Taxation and E-Commerce: Possibility and Desirability, International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (2010)
E-commerce poses significant challenges for existing tax rules. One of the most important effects of...
International Taxation of E-Commerce: Persistent Problems and Possible Developments, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) (2008)
Taxation of e-commerce is a major concern for international agencies and tax authorities worldwide. Taxation...
Regulating Cyberstalking (with Richard Jones), Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT) (2007)
Through the use of examples of cyber stalking the paper will consider the nature of...
Offshore technology outsourcing: overview of management and legal issues (with A Pai), Business Process Management Journal (2007)
Purpose – Offshore outsourcing of non-core business process has rapidly evolved as a ubiquitous organisational...
Offshore Outsourcing – How Safe is Your Data Abroad? Overview of Privacy, Data Protection and Security (with A Nikam), Global Jurist (2006)
Outsourcing arrangements often involve cross-border transfers of indeterminately large proportions of a client's proprietary and...
Books
Global Perspectives on E-Commerce Taxation Law (2007)
It is trite, but true, that taxation of e-commerce is a major concern for international...
Contributions to Books
Regulating Cyberstalking (with Richard P. Jones), Crimes of the Internet (2008)
Through the use of examples of cyberstalking the chapter will consider the nature of regulation...
Collection of Consumption Taxation in an E-Commerce Environment , E-Taxation: State & Perspectives: Scientific Basis, Implementation Strategies, Good Practice Examples (2007)
El gobierno electrónico y los países en desarrollo: el papel de la tecnología y el derecho , Gobierno, derecho y tecnología: las actividades de los poderes públicos (2006)
Emerging Legal Challenges in Offshore Outsourcing of IT-Enables Services, Outsourcing and Offshoring in The 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective (2006)
Popular Press
CAP research shows older people in Northern Ireland do not have appropriate access to legal advice (with Joe Duffy), NI Press (2009)
Research from the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) has found that older people in Northern Ireland...
Africa’s e-government Dilemma, Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (2006)
India’s Information Technology Act hinders the development of E-commerce (with Richard Jones), ID21 (2004)
Electronic commerce – conducting business through network technology – is no longer confined to developed...
Unpublished Papers
Digital Divide, Ageing and Online Legal Advice (with Joe Duffy and Philip Leith) (2009)
Older people have been perceived as requiring support with regard to legal and soft law...
HuWY: Hub Websites for Youth Participation (with David Newman, John Morrison, and Philip Leith), eParticipation Preparatory Action EP-08-01-011 (2009)
EU funded multi-stakeholder initiative to create a network of Hub Websites that support young people...
Presentations
Digital Divide Older People And Online Legal Advice (with Joe Duffy and Helen Davey), CAP, Queen's University Belfast (2009)
Many older people are not aware where and when advice is available. Furthermore they may...
DIGITAL ETHICS IN BRIDGING DIGITAL DIVIDE, 24th Annual BILETA Conference: "To Infinity and Beyond: Law and Technology in Harmony?" (2009)
The digital divide disempowers, discriminates, and generates dependency. The question is how to deal with...
E-Commerce: Taxation Without Representation!, E-governance and Democracy – Theory and Practice: A Workshop, Queen's University Belfast (2007)
The problem of taxation of e-commerce is a choice between No Taxation or Taxation without...
Review and Editorials
Impact of E-commerce on Consumers and Small Firms (2007)
Impact of E-commerce on Consumers and Small Firms Salvatore Zappala (Editor), Colin Gray (Editor) Hardcover:...