Welcome to Lex Ferenda (‘the law as it ought to be’, approximately), which is my blog. I’m Daithí Mac Síthigh and I am a lecturer at the UEA Law School in the University of East Anglia. Find out more about the Law School here, including my official bio on that site.  This blog has been on the go since early 2006, but has been much quieter since I started full-time work as a lecturer.  It’s all about media and Internet law, with a focus on (a) providing links and quick comments to new stories, cases and developments and (b) extracts from work in progress and first-thoughts on academic research. I also post some comments about my work as a university lecturer more generally. You can also follow me on Twitter: @macsithigh.

The areas of law I teach and research in are Internet law, media law and public law (constitutional and administrative law), and I also have interests in copyright and in human rights. At UEA, I teach and supervise undergraduate students in Law and postgraduate students on a number of programmes, particularly the LLM in Media Law, Policy and Practice and the interdisciplinary module on Media and Society. Find information about my current teaching here and my research here.

I am also a member of media@uea and the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP).

I now live in the fine city of Norwich in the county of Norfolk in England but am originally from Co. Wicklow, in Ireland; before moving to England in mid-2008, I was a postgraduate student, research assistant and part-time tutor at the Law School in Trinity College Dublin. I submitted my PhD thesis (supervised by Dr. Eoin O’Dell, who blogs at cearta.ie) in October 2009 and passed the viva subject to minor corrections in June 2010. My undergraduate degree (2004) in Law was also at Trinity College. Between completing that degree and starting my PhD, I was a students’ union officer (at TCD and also at the Union of Students in Ireland) and studied social science with the Open University.  I returned to the OU as a Humanities student in 2009.