Its primary raison d’etre is to bring researchers and practitioners together for collaborative work and also to submit bids for research projects to funding bodies such as the European Commission, ESRC, AHRC. It additionally serves as a forum for discussion and means of increasing collaboration in various activities relating to inter-disciplinary work in law and technology issues.

Who is LexConverge?

LexConverge is growing every week. While we try to keep our web-page up-dated, the latest additions to the club may possibly not yet appear on the published membership list (and for spam and other reasons, not all members like to have their contact details published). Some of the consortium members which have accepted to have their details published are:

Australia

• Craig Valli and the team at the Security Research Centre SECAU at Edith Cowan University Perth Western Australia
• Nigel Wilson from the School of Law and the Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion at the University of Adelaide

Austria

• Erich Schweighofer from the Research Group Computers and Law (Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik) at the Faculty of Law, Department for European, International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna 

Belgium

• Yves Poullet and his team at the Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit of the University of Namur
• Jos Dumortier and his team at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI), K.U.Leuven as well as the Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT)

Bulgaria

• Alexandra Tsvetkova and the team at LIBRe Foundation.
• George Dimitrov and the team at the Law & Internet Foundation and the Centre for Law Information & Communication Technologies.  

Czech Republic

• Radim Polcak the IT Law group at Masaryk University

Denmark

• Team from the Danish Forum for IT-Law, including Peter Blume and Henrik Udsen (University of Copenhagen), Kim Frost, Søren Sandfeld Jakobsen and Jan Trzaskowski (Copenhagen Business School), Rene Franz Henschel (Aarhus Business School), and Susanne Karstoft (Aarhus University).

Egypt

• Mohamed Chawki from the Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ)

Estonia

• Ants Nomper from RoschierRaidla, (Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

Finland

• Ahti Sarenpaa, Jari Pekka Raman and Anu Ojala at the Institute for Law and Informatics at the University of Lapland in Finland 

France & Franco-German

• Daniele Bourcier and Melanie Dulong de Rosnay at CERSA at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris and the French CNRS at the Centre franco-allemand de recherche en sciences sociales Marc Bloch Humboldt Universität in Berlin

Germany

• Nikolaus Forgo and six colleagues from the Institute for Legal Informatics at the Leibniz University of Hannover
• Thomas Hoeren from the Institute for Information, Telekommunications and Media Law at the University of Muenster and the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) 
• Andreas Wiebe from the Institute for Private Law, Intellectual Propert Law, Media Law and E-commerce at the University of Göttingen

Hungary

• Zsolt Gyorg Balogh and his team from the Research Center for ICT Law at the University of Pecs

Italy

• Bruno Romano from the Information Law & Legal Informatics section of the Faculty of Law at the La Sapienza University in Rome
• Dario V Forte, IRitaly Project, University of Milano At Crema

Lithuania

• Sergejs Trofimovs, Associate, SORAINEN, The Pan-Baltic M&A and Business Law Firm

Malta

• Noellie Brockdorff, Joe Cannataci, Saviour Chircop and Albert Caruana from the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences at the University of Malta

Kenya

• Michael M. Murungi from the National Council for Law Reporting, Nairobi Kenya

Netherlands

• Peter Kleve, Richard de Mulder and Kees van Noortwijk at the Centre for IT Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Aernout Schmidt and Larens Mommers from the IT Law Research Centre at the University of Leiden
• Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici from the Department of European Law at the University of Groningen.

Norway

• Jon Bing and Dag Wiese Schartum from the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo

Poland

• Darek Adamski from the Research Centre for Legal and Economic Issues of Electronic Communication, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wroclaw in Poland

Portugal

• Manuel Lopes Rocha of Partner of Lisbon based law firm PLMJ
• Manuel David Masseno and the team at UbiNET - Laboratory of Ubiquitous Computing and Networks

Romania

• Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
• Ioana Vasiu from the Faculty of Law of Babes- Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca

Slovakia

• Dusan Soltes from the e-Europe Research & Development Centre at the Comenius University in Bratislava

Slovenia

• Polona Picman-Stefancic from REI

Spain

• Fernando Galindo from the University of Zaragoza

Sweden

• Cecilia Magnusson Sjoberg and the team at the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute at the Faculty of Law of the University of Stockholm

United Kingdom

• Abdul Paliwala from the Warwick School of Law as well as the UK Centre for Legal Education and the Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation all based at the University of Warwick 
• Philip Leith from the School of Law at Queen's University in Belfast

United States 

• Gary Kessler of the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. 
• Joseph J. Schwerha of the College of Science and Technology, California University of Pennsylvania as well as owner and founder of Trace Evidence, LLC
• Glenn Dardick: Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Security Studies and International Affairs

Interested? Contact us

LexConverge activities are currently co-ordinated from the Department of Information Policy & Governance at the University of Malta. Contact Joe Cannataci by email or by telephone on +356 99426133 or +44 07920842745.