Orla Lynskey

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Orla Lynskey (born 1982[1]) is an Irish academic in the areas of information privacy, data protection and information technology law, who is currently Chair of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.[2]

Lynskey holds an LLB (Law and French) from Trinity College Dublin, an LLM in European Union Law from the College of Europe, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.[3]

Academic career

Before joining academia, Lynskey worked as a contract agent for the Directorate-General for Competition and as an antitrust and competition attorney.[4] Lynskey joined LSE Law School in 2012, firstly as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and was later promoted to associate professor.[5] Lynskey was appointed as Chair of Law and Technology at UCL Faculty of Laws in 2024.

In addition to her UCL post, Lynskey is visiting professor at the College of Europe (since 2020), and holds the post of Global Distinguished Professor at Notre Dame Law School, teaching on their London programme.[6] She is joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Data Privacy Law,[7] and an editor at the Modern Law Review.[8]

Research and impact

Selected works

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