Dr Subhajit Basu is Associate Professor (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. He has a Ph.D. in Taxation of E-Commerce from Liverpool John Moores University. Subhajit is author of the book Global Perspectives on E-Commerce Taxation Law. (Ashgate, 2007). In addition, he is author of a large number of articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books covering a variety of topics including e-commerce, cybercrime, digital divide, intellectual property and eGovernment. Subhajit is extensively involved with research related to E-Commerce (Legal and Technological), 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. Subhajit 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 Advisory Board Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling, Member of European Association of Tax Law Professors, Visiting Professor National Law University (NLU, India). Advisor to Centre for Law and Technology (Nepal) to draft "Legal Analysis of Nepali Legal System from E-Governance perspective and E- Governance Bill" (High Level Commission for Information and Technology Chaired by Prime Minister of Nepal). Fellow of African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention (ACCP). He is a Member of Editorial Board of European Journal of Law and Technology (EJLT), 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 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, 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 2006-2012 for his contribution in the field of Social and Legal Science.
Articles
Older people and legal advice – the need for joined up and creative approaches (with Joe Duffy and Katherine Pearson), Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law (2012)
This paper reports the findings from research conducted with older people in Northern Ireland which...
Providing Legal Information and Advice to Older People: as much a question of accessibility as affordability (with Joe Duffy), European Journal of Law and Technology (2010)
No continent has as high a proportion of older people as Europe. [3] In this...
POLICY-MAKING, TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN INDIA, THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY (2010)
There is a preconceived assumption that privacy laws in India are notoriously weak. This unquestioned...
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...
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
Do the elderly get the legal advice they need?, Penn State Law (2011)
Professor Pearson works with researchers from the UK to get answers.As director of Penn State’s...
LLM Cyberlaw: Information Technology, Law and Society, SCMagazine (Secure Computing) (2010)
LLM in Cyberlaw: information technology, law and society enables you to develop knowledge and skills...
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)
Unpublished Papers
General Equilibrium model in the Context of Taxation of E-Commerce, Working Paper Series (2012)
Taxation of e-commerce is a major concern for international agencies and tax authorities worldwide. Taxation...
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
Information Revolution: “Choice of Control” to “Choice and Control” (with Christina Munns), BILETA 2012: 'Too many laws, too few examples': Regulation, technology, law & legal education (2012)
Please do not cite without permission of the authors.
In this article, we critically analyse...
From Vision to Conviction for an Ethically Connected World, Internet Society Nepal and CAN Info-Tech (2012)
Keynote Lecture:
We all know that despite of unprecedented increase in overall opulence the contemporary...
Internet Governance for Developing Countries, Internet Society Nepal and Computer Association Nepal (2012)
Invited Speaker
“I Can Stalk You”: Stalking the Stranger in Web 2.0, Human Rights in the Digital Era (2011)
‘When you're growing up your parents tell you not to talk to strangers, but the...
E-commerce Taxation doesn’t need to be Taxing?, BILETA 2011 (2011)
International direct taxation is also both excruciatingly complex and fundamentally arbitrary. It is thus in...
Review and Editorials
Special Issue on Digital Divide (Two Issues) (2010)
Despite of unprecedented increase in the overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to...
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:...