Christine Storr

About me

Christine Storr (previously Kirchberger) is a lecturer and doctoral candidate in law & informatics at the Department of Law, Stockholm University. She has been working at the department since 2001 after a law degree from Austria and an LL.M. in Law and Information Technology from Stockholm University. 

Within IT law she specialises in privacy, e-commerce, marketing law and freedom of expression and is the editor and main author of Cyber Law in Sweden (part of Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law). She also published a book on Media Law together with Pam Storr.

Christine teaches in the undergraduate courses Legal Information Retrieval and Legal Sources as part of Introduction to Law (Juridisk introduktionskurs), European Law and Family Law (Civilrätt C). She is the course director for the courses Media law and Introduction to administrative law for public employees. Christine is also the course director for Marknadsjuridiska perspektiv (MJP) at the Stockholm Business School.

Christine's doctoral project deals with legal information retrieval, the concept of legal information within the framework of the doctrine of legal sources and the information-seeking behaviour of lawyers.

A discrepancy between solutions for legal information retrieval and the idea of a generally accepted authoritative doctrine of legal sources can be noticed. Many of the challenges lie outside the legal area and concern the ambiguity of language, changes in search algorithms and information anxiety in most users nowadays.

An overview of her research is available at iinek.net/research/.


  • In search of the evidence

    Review
    2023. Christine Storr, Cormac McGrath.

    There is a lack of consolidated knowledge that identifies best practices when using digital learning tools, technologies and interventions in legal education. This paper seeks to illustrate the scope and nature of the current evidence that supports digital learning in legal education. The paper provides a scoping review of 10 years of empirical research in digital learning in legal education. Moreover, the paper discusses different forms of evidence in an effort to understand the kind of evidence legal scholars invoke when presenting what works in digital learning in legal education and why. In the paper, we present a picture of the empirical field of digital learning in legal education, including where these studies are being done, and the types of studies conducted. Moreover, we thematise the main findings across the studies: improved student learning, student satisfaction with digital tools, and drivers of engagement. We conclude by identifying some potential knowledge gaps. 

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  • Making the case for virtual law cases

    Article
    2021. Cormac McGrath, Annelie Gunnerstad, Christine Storr, Åsa Örnberg.

    Concerns have been raised about how well legal education prepares law students for the reality of their future work life. Some research suggests that law students find it difficult to transfer and apply theoretical knowledge to decision-making in real-life contexts. This article presents a novel way, virtual law cases (VLCs), to teach and learn legal knowledge, analytical reasoning and decision-making skills in a safe environment without real-life repercussions. The paper sets out a number of steps when developing a virtual law case and illustrates the different elements that are included. The article also reports the results of the pilot testing with other colleagues, legal experts, as well as with law students in a Swedish legal education context. Early evidence suggests that colleagues and legal experts are confident that using VLCs is a valuable way to teach legal reasoning and decision-making, and that VLCs offer students a tool that allows them to see how legal fields are interconnected.

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  • Medierätt

    Book
    2020. Christine Storr, Pam Storr.

    Den här boken presenterar ämnet medierätt huvudsakligen utifrån tre praktiska frågeställningar: hur marknadsaktörer skyddar sina tillgångar, hur aktörer får kommunicera till allmänheten, och hur kundinformation får användas och analyseras. För att belysa dessa tre frågeställningar diskuteras det juridiska ramverket inom tre områden - immaterialrätt, marknadsrätt och integritetsskydd.Efter en kort introduktion till ämnet juridik presenteras yttrandefrihet och dess gränser, samt hur reklam bör utformas för att följa god sed. Därefter diskuteras hur marknadsaktörer kan rättsligt skydda sina produkter genom immaterialrätt - varumärke, upphovsrätt och mönster. Relaterade ämnen som kortfattat presenteras är patent, företagshemligheter, konkurrensrätt, och avtalsrätt. Avslutningsvis diskuteras integritetsaspekter och rättsliga krav när kunddata hanteras.Boken är främst avsedd för undervisningsändamål med utgång i kurser vid svenska lärosäten. Boken är förhoppningsvis även av värde för yrkesverksamma inom exempelvis datavetenskap, marknadskommunikation och produktutveckling.

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