Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL.D. is professor at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. She has had 15 years of practical experience of developing and using IT-based legal information systems, including both the public and the private sector as well as participation in EU-projects.The major research project she is currently involved in investigates the possibilities of cross-fertilisation of advanced methods for security enhancement and applications of XML in the legal domain.She is presently course director for the international Master's Programme in Law and Information Technology at Stockholm university in which the development and management of information systems are studied in a legal perspective (www.juridicum.su.se/iri/studentinfo/).