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 (IRLCT). Reviewer for the Editorial Reviewer Board of the International Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR), IRLCT, 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. 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. 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 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), Visiting Professor National Law University (NLU, India).
Articles
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...
Indian Information and Technology Act 2000: A Review of Regulatory Powers under the Act (with Richard P. Jones), International Review of Law, Computers & Technology (2005)
In India, the Information Technology Act, received the Presidential Assent in June 2000. The Act...
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
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) (2008)
Older people have been perceived as requiring support with regard to legal and soft law...
Presentations
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...
Beyond Access: Harmonization of Legal Frameworks to Bridge the Digital Divide in Developing Countries (with Joseph Mwaura), Global Digital Divide: A legal postscript to the World Summit on Information Society (2007)
The question is how to deal with the problem of the digital divide? The fight...
Electronic Government and Digital Inclusion: Examples from India, LEFIS SEMINAR ON E GOVERNMENT AND DIGITAL INCLUSION (2007)
This presentation has two parts: In the first part I look into Development, effect of...
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:...