Senior Lecturer in Law and Cybercrime, University of Portsmouth
Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Cybercrime at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. He is the Director of the Portsmouth Cybercrime Awareness Clinic and Course Leader for the BSc in Criminology and Cybercrime.
Vasileios has published in international journals on topics relating to Internet politics and regulation as well as cybercrime and law. His recent monograph by Palgrave focuses on the topic of Hacktivism and is titled: "Living with Hacktivism".
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