Rate My Professor Christopher Millard

Professor Christopher Millard is Professor of Privacy and Information Law and head of the Cloud Legal Project in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He holds an LLB, MA, and LLM, and is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. With over 40 years of experience in technology law in both academia and legal practice, he previously served as head of the global privacy and data protection practice at Linklaters and was a partner at Clifford Chance. In 2008, he joined Bristows as Senior Counsel. He is Co-Director of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre and was principal investigator on the EU-funded Cloud Accountability Project (A4Cloud) from 2012 to 2016. Since 2008, his primary research focus has been cloud computing, encompassing legal and regulatory issues related to information technology, e-commerce, the Internet, data protection, and privacy.

Millard has published extensively in his field. He edited and co-authored Cloud Computing Law (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2021) and authored Legal Protection of Computer Programs and Data (Sweet & Maxwell, 1985), one of the earliest international comparative works on the topic. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology and co-founding editor (emeritus since 2020) of International Data Privacy Law. In 2022, under his leadership, the Cloud Legal Project launched a Coursera online specialization in Cloud Computing Law, where he teaches modules on cloud services, contracts, data protection law, and international data transfers. His honors include being designated twice as Internet and eCommerce Lawyer of the Year by the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. He is a Fellow and former Chairman of the Society for Computers & Law, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, past-President of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations, and past-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association. Through pioneering projects like the Cloud Legal Project, launched in 2009 as the first dedicated legal research initiative on cloud computing, Millard has significantly influenced the development of cloud regulation worldwide.