Personal Herbert Burkert

Current Position	Professor of Public Law, Information and Communication Law and President, Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen , Switzerland International Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Senior Research Fellow,Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme, St .Augustin Germany [currently on leave of absence] Membre du Comité d'accompagnement du programme «Diplôme en droit et gestion des technologies de l'information et de la communication» Faculté de Droit, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur Representative of the Swiss Law Faculties on the Board of the Swiss Association of Legal Informatics
Former Functions	Chairman, Legal Advisory Board to The European Commission's DG "Information Society" European Member of the International Public Policy Advisory Council of the MIT AutoID-Project (now EPC Global)
Education	Herbert Burkert studied Law, Political Science and History at the University of Cologne and at the University College Dublin; he was a Volkswagenwerk Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg, Germany and passed his Second State Law Exam in the German Land Hesse; he received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt am Main and his habilitation from the University of St. Gallen where he now presides the Research Centre for Information Law and teaches in the areas of telecommunication law, media law, internet law and public law.
Editorial Boards	Information Communication & Society USA/UK Journal of Law and Information Science AUSTRALIA Multimedia und Recht (MMR) GERMANY Electronic Commerce and Law Report USA Kluwer Law Information Series NETHERLANDS Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (DuD) GERMANY medialex SWITZERLAND
Areas of Consulting	Information Law, Public Sector Information Policies, Data Protection, Internet Law and Policies, Access to Information
Contact	hb@herbert-burkert.net