Laboratory of Information Law was created in 2010. In 2016, the laboratory was renamed and became the International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law. The laboratory conducts research on law development in information society and access to information and knowledge.

Amsterdam hosted the third international conference on privacy protection – Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2018)
Mikhail Zhuravlev, the junior researcher of the International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property, took part in the conference. The key topics of this year were the issues of countering market dominance through monopolization of data ownership, discrimination through the use of artificial intelligence and Big Data processing technologies.

HSE Maintains Position in Top-300 of QS Graduate Employability Rankings
The QS Graduate Employability Rankings has published a list of the Top-500 universities in the world in terms of graduate employability outcomes and prospects.

The VII International Summer School on Cyber Law is over
The VII International Summer School on Cyber Law, organized by the International Laboratory for IT and IP Law, has come to an end in Moscow
Dr. Irina Bogdanovskaya Awarded Status of Tenured Professor
On June 22, Irina Y. Bogdanovskaya, head of International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, was awarded the status of Tenured Professor at a meeting of HSE Academic Council.
Current trends in the field of data protection: the approach of the European Union in the lectures of Nadezhda Purtova
On March 22 and 23, Nadezhda Purtova, a lecturer at the Tilburg University (Netherlands), delivered lectures for the students of Law Faculty. Nadezhda attended the International Laboratory for IT and IP Law during the Erasmus + program.
Students on the HSE’s Legal Informatics MA Programme Gain Double Degree Option
The Higher School of Economics has signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Nottingham (Great Britain). Now students on the HSE MA Programme in Legal Informatics will be able to receive an LLM (Master of Laws) degree as part of this double-degree programme.
Scandinavian Perspective on IT Law
XXXI Nordic Conference on Law and Information Technology was held in Stockholm on 9-10 November 2016. Mikhail Zhuravlev, junior research fellow of the International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, took part in the Conference.
Recent Trends in Information Security and Data Protection Law: Russian, EU and Norwegian perspectives
Researchers of the International Laboratory for IT and IP Law, HSE, discussed prospects for regulation of information security and data protection in Russia, Norway and the European Union with colleagues from the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), University of Oslo. Among the issues raised at the symposium there were topics relevant for both Russia and Norway.
Current Trends in English IP Law - a series of lectures by Professor Gaetano Dimita
International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law organized a series of lectures "Current trends in English Intellelctual Property Law." The guest speaker - Gaetano Dimita, Professor of Queen Mary University, London.
Legal Consequences of Brexit
On October, 27 Ian Lloyd, chief researcher of the International Laboratory for IT and IP Law, delivered a lecture on "Legal consequences of Brexit". Within this theme, Professor Lloyd highlighted the major events preceding the exit of the UK from the European Union.