Senior Researcher in Silicon Valley, California Lecturer in Law Danish Supreme Court Lawyer Previously worked as prosecutor in Danish Appeal Courts Previously clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Denmark Previously student at the Technical University of Denmark First time programmed and used a computer back in 1971 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen E-mail: hssph "at" yahoo "dot" com Born: 1953 in Copenhagen

Curriculum Vitae

Publications List

Projects:

• The interconnection between Public International Law & Public International Computer Network (Cyberspace)
• Cyberspace/Internet and Jurisdiction
  - In 2002-2004 funded by the Danish Social Science Council as project no. 24-02-0127
• Collecting cases from around the world dealing with the question of personal jurisdiction
• Collecting rules/statutes on personal/adjudicate jurisdiction from around the world in English - authorized and unauthorized translations

Interested in the following topics:

• Cyberspace/Internet, Computer Networks and Public International Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADR)
• On-line agreements
• Pure on-line business
• Non-commercial websites/on-line communication

Six steppingstones:

Publications:

• Books:
  - Legal Research Methods in a Modern World: A Coursebook (Third edition of: Legal Research Methods in the U.S. & Europe) (In English), January 2011 (486 pages, DJØF Publishing, Copenhagen - ISBN 978-87-574-2467-6)(Co-author Paul Lomio & George Wilson).
  Press release -- Book review
  
  Legal Research Methods in the U.S. & Europe (Second Edition) (In English), October 2008 (464 pages, DJØF Publishing, Copenhagen - ISBN 978-87-574-1936-89)(Co-author Paul Lomio).
  Press release -- Book review
  
  - Public International Computer Network Law Issues, September 2006 (520 pages - ISBN 87-574-1486-6)
  Press release -- Book review
  

  "Again Spang-Hanssen has written on Public International Law in the Computer Age. He is one of very few legal Scholars in the world to have gone so deeply into this subject." Bertram Ramcharan Professor of International Law For many years a high ranged employee at the United Nations 2003-2004 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

  
  
  - Cyberspace & International Law on Jurisdiction - Possibilities of Dividing Cyberspace into Jurisdictions with help of Filters and Firewall Software, of February 2004 (ISBN 87-574-0890-4)
  Press release -- Book review
  

  "This book is an encyclopedia that everyone involved with the Internet should have." Stein Schjølberg Council of Europe expert on cybercrime & Norwegian Chief Judge http://www.globalcourts.com "Spang-Hanssen has written a major innovative book on Public International Law in the Computer Age. He is one of very few legal Scholars in the world to have gone so deeply into this subject." Bertram Ramcharan Professor of International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden. Previously UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003-2004)

  
  
  - Cyberspace Jurisdiction in the U.S. - The International Dimension of Due Process, of November 27, 2001, including a broad introduction to federal personal jurisdiction rules in the U.S. (free download) - ISBN 82-7226-046-8
  


• Articles online written in English -- See also some articles at Social Science Research Network
• Articles online written in Danish

Court decisions - translated into English/Miscellaneous/Statements to the Press in

including the Courts "little" ABC on the Internet

Links

June 12, 2013