Oxford University Press recently published the debut issue of the new quarterly journal International Data Privacy Law (“IDPL”), the first and only journal on data protection and privacy law which both focuses on international issues and subjects articles to double-blind peer review.  Hunton & Williams Brussels-based partner Christopher Kuner is the journal’s editor-in-chief, and Professor Fred Cate, Senior Policy Advisor of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams, also serves as an editor.  According to Mr. Kuner, “IDPL has three main missions, namely to be global, to span the gulf between scholarship and practice and to help solidify the position of data protection and privacy law as a central area of importance for the individual, the economy and the development of new technologies.”

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