Professor Peter Sommer
Digital Evidence and Public Policy.

Expert Witness Activity

Expert witness assignments, with an over-riding duty to the court, have been for both prosecution and defence in criminal matters, in civil and in international matters and before various tribunals at home and abroad.

His approach has always been rooted in a deep technical understanding combined with a rigorous adherence to legal standards and procedural requirements.

Public Policy & Advisory

He has sat on various Whitehall and international consultative committees, acted as a specialist advisor to UK parliamentary select committees and given evidence to other select committees and inquiries.

Academic interests

Interests are informed by his first degree in law/jurisprudence at Oxford University and his subsequent research and teaching in information systems/cyber security at the London School of Economics.

• Digital investigations methodologies, digital evidence, computer forensics research, forensic science issues and policy, incident response/disaster recovery techniques, hacking methods.
• Cyber security engineering and human factors, digital identity systems, applications of biometrics, crypto systems.
• Surveillance and privacy issues, Internet content filtering, encryption policy, cyber law reform, criminal justice and policing procedures
• AI assistance in digital investigations and forensics.