Emily Mary Weitzenboeck
Senior Lawyer
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Emily M. Weitzenboeck is a Senior Lawyer at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and is part of the firm’s IP and Technology Law practice. Her areas of expertise are: data protection/privacy; electronic commerce, consumer protection, IPR, business networks and Internet governance. Weitzenboeck was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Oslo in 2010 for her thesis subsequently published as A Legal Framework for Emerging Business Models: Dynamic Networks as Collaborative Contracts (Edward Elgar). She has published several other works, is a frequent speaker at conferences as well as a lecturer and examiner at the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, University of Oslo and at the University of Malta. In particular, Emily has taught and is a frequent examiner in both English Law of Contract and Electronic Commerce Law at the University of Oslo. Her legal background from Malta, England and Norway has made her particularly sensitive to the interplay of common and civil law.Weitzenboeck has counseled IT firms in the licensing of their IPRs in Norway and abroad, conducted studies on various IT law issues such as medical health data and has previously also practiced in Malta in IT and IP law. She is fluent in Norwegian, English, Maltese and Italian and has basic knowledge of French and German.
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2018 -
Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
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2014 - 2017
Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
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2003 - 2011
Lecturer and examiner, Faculty of Economics, Management & Accountancy, University of Malta
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1999 - 2014
Postdoctoral research scholar, formerly senior researcher and project manager, Norwegian Research Centre for Computers & Law, Department of Private law, University of Oslo
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1995 - 1998
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Malta
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1994 - 1998
Advocate, MamoTCV Advocates (formerly Tonna Camilleri Vassallo & Co, Advocates), Valletta, Malta
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1994
Research Assistant, Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton
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1993 - 1998
Research Assistant, Law & IT Research Unit, University of Malta
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2016
Norwegian practising certificate
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2010
Doctoral dissertation in Law (Ph.D), University of Oslo
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1994
Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Sourthampton
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1994
Admitted to the Bar in Malta
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1993
Doctorem in Jurisprudentia (LL.D.), University of Malta
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1987
Diploma in Business Law and Accounting, University of Malta
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2019
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2012 - 2016
Board member, The Norwegian Association for Computers and Law
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1995 - 1998
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1992 - 1998
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Assessment of privacy legal issues related to the use of a mapping tool in schools
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Disclosure of personal information in accordance with collective agreements, Public sector?
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The significance of GDPR Article 23 for the defense sector, Public Sector
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AEGLE project: National report – Big Data analytics and Norwegian regulations for processing health information
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Research work, Public Sector
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2020
Legal Issues of Maritime Virtual Organisations (Complex 4/01, Oslo, Unipub Forlag)
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2015
A Legal Framework for Emerging Business Models: Dynamic Networks as Collaborative Contracts (updated and revised doctoral dissertation, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK & US, 2012)
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2006
“Good faith and fair dealing in contracts formed and performed by electronic agents” (2004) 12 Artificial Intelligence and Law (Springer) 83-110
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2004
"Electronic Agents and the Formation of Contracts” (2001) 9 International Journal of Law and Information Technology (OUP) 204-234
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2004
With Prof. Anja Oskamp, special issues editors of (2004) 12 Artificial Intelligence and Law on “Electronic agents and the law” (Springer)
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2001
"Electronic Agents: Spies, lies and villains in the online world?”, in R. Nielsen, S. Sandfeld Jakobsen, J. Trzaskowski (eds), EU Electronic Commerce Law (DJØF Publishing, Denmark, 2004) 209-221
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2001
"Maltese Copyright Law in the light of EC Law" (with R. Camilleri) i P.G. Xuereb (ed), Malta, the European Union and the Mediterranean: Closer relations in the wider context (EDRC, University of Malta, 1998) 243-274
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2001
“Prevention is Better than Cure: Fostering the Growth of Dynamic Networked Organisations through the use of Proactive Legal Measures”, in P. Wahlgren (ed), Scandinavian Studies in Law Vol. 49: A Proactive Approach (Stockholm, 2006) 305-318