1. The emerging information society
2. Internet regulation and the rise, fall and rise of .com
3. Privacy, technology and the law
4. The emergence of data protection
5. The scope of data protection
6. Supervision of data users
7. The data protection principles
8. Individual rights and remedies
9. Sectoral aspects of data protection
10. Transborder data flows
11. Emerging legal responses to computer crime
12. Computer fraud and the move to computer specific legislation
13. The Computer Misuse Act 1990
14. Theft of information
15. Internet and computer pornography
16. Detecting and prosecuting computer crime
17. Intellectual property law
18. Key elements of the patent system
19. Patents and software
20. Copyright protection
21. Copyright in the information society
22. Protection of databases
23. Trade mark issues
24. Protection of semiconductor chip designs
25. Competition, standards and intellectual property
26. Contractual liability for defective software
27. Non-contractual liability
28. International and European initiatives in ecommerce
29. Cryptography, electronic signatures and the Electronic Communications Act 2000
30. Tax and the Internet
31. Defamation.