Lorna Woods is Professor of Internet Law at Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre. She started her career as a solicitor in the City of London advising in the TMT sectors, fields in which she maintained an interest after her move to academia. Her current project, with Carnegie UK Trust and based on three decades’ experience in the regulation of communications technologies, is on the regulation of social media, work which has received recognition in the UK and abroad; she was awarded an OBE in 2020 for her services to internet safety policy. She is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, a member of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) National User Group and on the Panel of Experts to the Digital Freedom Fund.
