Cybersecurity and Data Laws of the Commonwealth

The book has been authored by a highly regarded international legal scholar in commercial and private law. The book highlights how the legal landscape for in data protection, cross-border data flows and cybersecurity law is highly diverse and fragmented amongst all commonwealth countries. The book focuses on addressing the gaps in data, cybersecurity and national arbitration law of these countries. The aim of this book is to promote more engagement between commonwealth countries, to ensure they capitalise on the growing digital economy. Notwithstanding the above, the digital economy is rapidly changing the way we work and live. When coupled together cybersecurity and data law will be an important component of the future digital economy. They will both be integral to transnational trade and investment. That said, there will likely be disputes, and international arbitration can be an effective legal mechanism to resolve trade and investment disputes across the digital economy. On that basis, this book augments how the respective laws of commonwealth countries, along with the model data and cyber laws of the Commonwealth should be reviewed to minimise any legal divergence. This book provides a comparison and practical guide for academics, students, and the business community of the current day data protection laws and cross-border data flows among all commonwealth countries.

Autorentext

Robert Walters is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Digital Economy Research Group at Victoria University-Australia, Adjunct Professor European Faculty of Law, Slovenia, Europe, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow University Western Australia, and advisor to the Corporate and Insolvency Center - Gujarat National Law University, India. He is a Solicitor and an International Arbitrator (Life Member Indian Council of Arbitrators). He holds an LLB (Victoria), MPPM (Monash), and Ph.D. Law (Victoria). Walters is a legal scholar and practitioner in transnational commercial and private law in the digital economy. Dr Walters has been engaged by national governments to address commercial and private law matters and develop legal-policy programs for the digital economy. He is a member of ASEAN Law Association-Singapore and Asia Pacific Scholar (Privacy/Data Protection) Network. He has chaired Government Appointed Advisory Committee and represented government departments to Government Law Reform Committees in Australia. He also has a law enforcement/investigations background and represented a government department as a Prosecutor in the Courts, within Australia for more than 8 years.