Centre for Commercial Law Studies

Ms Kuan Hon, MA (Cantab), LLM (UPenn), MSc (Imperial), LLM (Queen Mary)

Kuan

Senior Researcher, Project Co-ordinator and Research Assistant , Cloud Computing Project

Email: w.k.hon@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8215
Room Number: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Website: http://www.cloudlegal.ccls.qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Kuan Hon joined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in October 2010 as the Research Assistant to the Cloud Computing Legal Research Project which commenced in October 2009.

She was responsible during 2010-2011 for undertaking research and project coordination tasks in support of this Microsoft-funded programme to investigate the legal issues arising from the growing use of Cloud Computing. She remains consultant to the project on an ongoing part-time basis and is a research assistant on the A4Cloud EU project.

Kuan Hon originally qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and was admitted as an Attorney to the Bar of the State of New York. She then worked as a solicitor in the City of London, gaining broad experience in finance-related and commercial English legal issues (particularly banking, debt capital markets and corporate insolvency law).

Pursuing a long-standing interest in technology, she obtained an MSc in Computing Science with merit from Imperial College, London in 2009 and then an LLM in Computer and Communications Law with merit from Queen Mary, University of London in 2010.

Research

Research Interests:

Legal issues arising from the spread and adoption of Cloud Computing, particularly data protection, privacy and information governance.

Publications

Selected recent publications (and see also Kuan's papers on SSRN)

Public Engagement