Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice

Information rights is a rapidly developing area of law and interdisciplinary practice. It embraces areas as diverse as the sharing of sensitive personal information such as medical data through to issues that arise in connection with the development of technology such as the use of wearable tech and also policy concerns such as access to public sector information and the regulation of freedom of expression. Therefore it is an area that embraces both academic debate and developing practical and regulatory issues.

The Journal of Information Rights, Policy & Practice aims to encourage interdisciplinary debate of current information rights issues. It aims to be truly interdisciplinary (encouraging for instance articles from a sociological or computer science perspective), rather than focussing on one area of law such as data protection or freedom of information. The Journal will encourage discussion of issues faced by those in policy and practice, for instance regarding the regulation of information sharing. In addition, the journal will both be online and fully open access..