Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) is an English computer scientist. He is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Category Archives: Biographies of Authors – Information Law
Herbert Burkert
Herbert Burkert is an emeritus professor of public law and communications law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His main fields of research are telecommunications law, media law and public law. In 2012 Herbert Burkert was appointed visiting professor at Harvard Law School and faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (born 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist. Cailliau helped Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web and ran the office computing systems group of CERN from 1987 to 1989. He joined Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 in order to start the World Wide Web. Cailliau is most known for the proposal he developed with Tim Berners-Lee of a hypertext system for accessing documentation. This proposal led to the creation of the World Wide Web.
Jean Nicolas Druey
Jean Nicolas Druey (born 1937) is an emeritus professor of civil and commercial law at the University of St. Gallen.
Josef Egger
Josef Egger graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland.
Willi Egloff
Willi Egloff graduated from the Universities of Zurich and Regensburg. He received his doctorate in law from the University in Zurich in 1974 and was admitted to the bar in the Canton of Zurich in 1979. His main fields of work are employment law, alien law, family law, social insurance law, media law and copyright law.
Peter Forstmoser
Peter Forstmoser (born 1943) is an emeritus professor of civil, business and capital markets law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Urs Gasser
Urs Gasser is Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He is a visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and KEIO University (Japan). Furthermore, Urs Gasser teaches at Fudan University School of Management (China). His main fields of research are information law, policy and society issues.
Jean-François Groff
Jean-François Groff (a Swiss) graduated from the French National Institute of Telecommunications. He came to CERN and joined the so-called World Wide Web team in 1991.
Reto M. Hilty
Reto M. Hilty is a professor (ad personam) at the University of Zurich and honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; he is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich). His areas of interest are contract law, competition law, protection of intellectual property, fundamental questions of property rights and new technologies. Furthermore, Reto M. Hilty is interested in the harmonisation of international property rights.
Claire Huguenin
Claire Huguenin is an ordinarius professor of civil, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her main fields of research are contract and corporate law.
Christian Laux
Christian Laux is an attorney-at-law and was admitted to practice in Switzerland in 2004. In his daily work he focuses on matters of IT law. He has extensive experience with technology-related and e-commerce issues.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (born 1966) is a professor of Internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Bernd Pollermann
Bernd Pollermann is a German physicist. He was 30 years old when he started working as a physicist at CERN in Geneva.
Dietrich Schindler Junior
Dietrich Schindler-Kuhn (1924 – 2018) studied law in Zurich, Geneva, Paris and Harvard, and earned his post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Zurich in 1957. In parallel with and after lecturing at the University of Zurich, the University of Bonn, the University of Michigan and the Hague Academy of International Law, he was full professor for International, European, Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Zurich from 1968 to 1989.
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider (born 1972) is the deputy head of the International Affairs Service and the international information society coordinator at the Swiss Federal Office of Communication (OFCOM) in the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). He studied history, national economics and English literature.
Rainer J. Schweizer
Rainer J. Schweizer (born 1943) is an emeritus professor of public law at the University of St. Gallen. His main fields of research are public law including European law, international law and the theory of fundamental rights.
Daniel Thürer
Daniel Thürer is an emeritus professor of public international, European and Swiss public and administrative law at the University of Zurich. Daniel Thürer received his legal education at the Universities of Zurich, St. Gallen, Geneva, Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute of Public International Law and Comparative Public Law (Heidelberg) and Harvard Law School.
Nathalie Tissot
Nathalie Tissot is an extraordinarius professor of intellectual property law, promotion and possession of intellectual property and of innovation. Her main fields of research are intellectual property, commercial law, new technologies and information technology law, as well as town and country planning.
Rolf H. Weber, Editor and Author
Rolf H. Weber (born 1951) is a professor of civil, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a permanent visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (France), the University of Leuven (Belgium) and LUISS University in Rome (Italy). His main fields of research are Internet and information technology law, competition law, international business law, international financial law and international trade law.
Jan Widmer
Jan Widmer is general counsel for Microsoft Schweiz GmbH, Switzerland, and a member of the executive management team. He currently leads the legal and corporate affairs department that is responsible for Switzerland and Austria.