Conferences attended


  • Farrand, B. & Carrapico, H. 'Copyright law as a matter of (inter)national security? The attempt to securitise commercial infringement and it's spill-over onto individual liability', presented at the Third Global International Studies Conference (WISC), Porto, Portugal, 18th August 2011.
  • Farrand, B. '‘Piracy. It's a Crime.’ - The Criminalisation Process of Digital Copyright Infringement', presented at the 7th International Internet, Law and Politics (IDP) Conference, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 11th July 2011.
  • Farrand, B. 'Intellectual Property and International Relations: - The Securitisation of Copyright Law in the EU', presented at the 'Organized Crime in the Schengen Area and the EU in Light of the Imminent Enlargement: Assessing Security Threats and Existing Countermeasures' Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 14th October 2010
  • Farrand, B. ''Protecting music, not markets: - The conflict between collecting societies and single market aims', presented at the Knowright 2010 Conference, University of Vienna, 5th May 2010
  • Farrand B. 'The process of intellectual property harmonisation in the EU', guest lecture at the University of Vienna, 24th April 2010

Workshops attended


  • Farrand, B. 'New Directions in EU Digital Copyright Law: - The Urgent Need for Re-Assessment', presented at the 2011 Doctoral Workshop in Law and Technology, European University Institute, 1st June 2011.
  • Farrand, B. 'The use of copyright to quell online expression', presented at the 'Government and the Internet: Participation, Expression and Control' workshop organised by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, the Department of Law and the Information Society Working Group, European University Institute, 9th March 2011
  • Farrand, B. 'A Different Approach to Copyright in the Digital World: - The Concept of the New Economy', presented at the 2009 Doctoral Workshop on Law and Technology, European University Institute, 5th June 2009.


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    Qualifications


    • LLB in European, International and Comparative Law (Sheffield)
    • LLM in Commercial Law (Sheffield)
    • LLM in European, International and Comparative Law (EUI)
    • European Certificate on Cyber-crime and Electronic Evidence (European Commission)

    Field of Research


    • Critical legal studies
    • Law and technology
    • Intellectual Property
    • Competition Law and Policy
    • Criminalisation and criminology

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