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Professor Uta Kohl

Professor of Law and Technology

Research interests

  • Platform economy
  • Internet jurisdiction in public and private international law
  • Freedom of expression, privacy and data protection law

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Accepting applications from PhD students.

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TV

Uta is Professor of Law and Technology at Southampton Law School. Her research interests have been broad ranging, mostly concerning governance questions of the internet - its territoriality, dominant corporate actors, (personal) data building blocks and technologies (i.e. algorithms and AI). She is interested in the intersections of disparate but related legal regimes (e.g. private and public international law; privacy and data protection), the comparative differences in law at the transnational level, and critical legal readings of developments in the law-and-technology field.  

Uta has been published widely, including the monograph Jurisdiction and the Internet (CUP, 2007, ppb 2010), the edited collections The Net and the Nation State (CUP, 2017) and Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (CUP, 2021, co-editor J. Eisler) and the textbook Information Technology Law (5th ed, 2016, co-authors Diane Rowland and Andrew Charlesworth).

September 2023 - August 2025:  Visiting Professor in Law and Technology at CUHK, Hong Kong

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