Rodney D. Ryder is a leading technology, intellectual property and corporate lawyer. He is the founding partner at Scriboard™; a full service legal consulting firm.
He is the author of Guide to Cyber Laws: the Information Technology Act, 2000, E-Commerce, Data Protection and the Internet, the first section-wise analysis of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. He is presently Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India on the implementation of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Mr. Ryder has been nominated as a 'Leading Lawyer' in intellectual property, technology, communications and media law by Asia Law, Who'sWhoLegal, Asia Legal 500, amongst other International publications. Mr. Ryder is also advisor to the Data Security Council of India [a NASSCOM initiative] on the structuring of industry data privacy and information security policies and contractual standards.
His second book, Intellectual Property and the Internet, published by LexisNexis is perhaps the only one of its kind in Asia. The text has been acknowledged to be an authoritative work by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and has been quoted in the first and only judgement by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on domain names. He is advisor to the National Internet Exchange of India [NiXI] and a member of the panel of independent and neutral arbitrators with NiXI.
Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty [Internet related laws, intellectual property, telecommunications and media laws]:
- Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow [IIML],
- National Law School of India University [NLSIU], Bangalore,
- NALSAR, Hyderabad,
- National Law University [NLU], Jodhpur,
- Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi,
- Amity Law School,
- Indian Institute of Technology [Kharagpur]
- CBI Academy [Ghaziabad]
- Indian Law Institute [ILI]
Books:
"Guide to Cyber Laws [E-commerce, the Information Technology Act, 2000, Data protection and the Internet]". {LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur, India}. Third Edition 2007.
“Intellectual Property and the Internet”. {LexisNexis, 2002}.
“Brands, Trademarks and Advertising”. {LexisNexis, 2004}.
“Drafting corporate and commercial agreements: legal drafting guidelines, forms and precedents”; {Universal Law Publishing, 2005; Reprint 2007, 2008}
“Right to Information – Law, Policy and Practice”. {LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur, India, 2006}.
“An Introduction to Internet Law and Policy: a course book on cyber law”. {LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur, India, 2007}
E-mail – rodney@scriboard.com
Ashwin Madhavan, is the Co Founder of Law Wire. He is a IVth year law student of Gujarat National Law University- Gandhinagar. He has written several articles for various National and International publications. He has the honour of writing an article for the prestigious Indian Journal of International Law on – ‘Legal Outsourcing and Its Implications on the Indian Legal Fraternity’. He also has had one of his articles published in the Halsbury’s Law Monthly published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths.
He has researched extensively on ‘Legal Outsourcing’ and ‘the Indo US Nuclear Deal’. He has had the honour of presenting his findings on the Indo US Nuclear Deal at the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has written several articles on this important issue as well. He is part of the founding team at Scriboard Knowledge Solutions. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Law, Development and Policy of Gujarat National Law University. He can be reached at ashwin@scriboard.com |
