Prof. Dr. Miquel Peguera, Associate Professor of Commercial Law at the Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (UOC) (Barcelona, Spain). PhD in Law, University of Barcelona (2006) with a dissertation
on the liability of Internet intermediaries. Visiting Scholar at the University of Columbia School
of Law (2007-08). His research focuses on the legal aspects of the information society, and
particularly on ISPs’ liability. His publications include “When the Cached Link is the
Weakest Link: Search Engine Caches under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act”, 56 Journal of
the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 589 (2009); “The DMCA Safe Harbors and Their European
Counterparts: A Comparative Analysis of Some Common Problems”, 32 Columbia Journal of Law
& the Arts 481 (2009). He is the author of the book
La exclusión de responsabilidad de los intermediarios en Internet, Granada: Comares (2007)
and editor of the handbook
Principios de Derecho de la Sociedad de la Información, Cizur Menor: Aranzadi (2010).
Co-editor del Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology & E-Commerce Law (www.jipitec.eu). Prof. Peguera blogs on ISP liability at
http://ispliability.wordpress.com/ Before joining
the academia, he worked as a lawyer in Barcelona.