About
Uta (BA/LLB First Class, Uni of Tasmania, 1997; PhD, Uni of Canberra, 2003) started her academic career at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2000) and has been a Professor of Law at the University of Southampton since 2018.
Her research reputation is based on her work in law and tech, in particular her monograph Jurisdiction and the Internet (CUP, 2007, ppb 2010), her edited collections The Net and the Nation State (CUP, 2017) and Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (CUP, 2021, co-editor J. Eisler) and her co-authored textbook Information Technology Law (5th ed, 2016, co-authors D. Rowland and A. Charlesworth).
Uta organised an interdisciplinary ‘Internet Jurisdiction’ symposium funded by Google Inc in 2014, and sat on the board of trustees of the Internet Watch Foundation (2014-2020).
She has been a visiting professor (short-term) at Bocconi University, Milan (2017, 2018, 2019), Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest (2018) and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2019).
Uta was a Research Scholar at MIT (Dept of Political Science) in a collaboration with Prof Nazli Choucri from February to July 2023.
Sept 2023 - August 2025: Visiting Prof in Law and Technology at CUHK, Hong Kong