David Erdos, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge

Dr David Erdos is Deputy Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, and University Senior Lecturer in Law and the Open Society in the Faculty of Law and also WYNG Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. After reading PPE at Merton College Oxford, David studied for an MA (2003) and PhD (2006) in the Politics Department of Princeton University. Prior to joining Cambridge in 2013, he spent six years as a research fellow in the Faculty of Law and at Balliol College in Oxford. David's work has examined the development of human rights systems (including through a monograph Delegating Rights Protection (2010)) and also the law and governance of information. Drawing on a background in both political science and law, his research has blended doctrinal analysis with rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodology from social science. His most recent work has focused on the interface between European data protection and freedom of expression.

"Overall, given its breadth and depth, this is an impressive feat of scholarship with relevance for both media law and data protection law, and for both policy and practice. For practitioners, it may serve as a valuable international reference work in this complex and divergent field of law. For scholars and policymakers, it offers a rigorous and comprehensive commentary on its past, present and future." - Paddy Leerssen, European Data Protection Law Review

"This book presents a comprehensive picture about how Data Protection law and interpretation has evolved in terms of journalistic purposes, and asks the very relevant question of how regulation might best evolve in the GDPR era [...]. It will be of interest to anyone who works with legal issues on data protection and privacy, publishing, human rights, freedom of expression or journalism." - Laura Linkomies, Privacy Laws & Business