Eliza Watt

Dr Eliza Watt is a researcher and senior lecturer in law at Middlesex University, London and a visiting lecturer at British Law Centre, University of Warsaw, Poland. She was a guest speaker at College of Information and Cyberspace, National Defense University, Washington D.C., USA; and is a non-practicing barrister called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has taught at postgraduate and undergraduate levels a variety of commercial and other law courses, including Law of the International Sale of Goods, International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, English and International Commercial Law, Tort Law, Contract Law and English Legal System. She is LL.M. Programme Leader and has module leadership responsibilities for Lex4707 (International Law of the Sale of Goods). Dr Watt’s research focuses on international law and states’ low level cyber operations, with particular emphasis on cyber surveillance and human rights. Her book analysing state surveillance, with the focus on the 'Five Eyes' alliance of states is titled, 'State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance: The Right to Privacy of Communications and International Law' and was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2021. Dr Watt regularly publishes her work in peer-reviewed journals and other publications, including Journal of Conflict and Security Law, The International Journal of Human Rights and NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE). She has contributed to the 2018 UN 'Report on the UN Group of Government Experts 2015 Cyber Norms, Recommendation 13(e)'; and to the 2019 European Parliament Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value Scientific Foresight Unit's Project, 'Workplace Monitoring/Surveillance in the Digital Era and Its Implications for Workers' Privacy and Data Protection'. Her shorter publication include blog posts for the Verfassunsblog, The Strasbourg Observers, and The Conversation. She presented her research at a number of international conferences, including NATO 2017 9th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Defending the Core. She also acts as a peer reviewer for The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and The International Journal of Human Rights in the field of human rights and mass surveillance. She is a member of the Bar Council of England and Wales, the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, The Society of Legal Scholars, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Chatham House and the UK Higher Education Academy.