"This book represents the combined and very substantial efforts over the past four years of the members of the Cloud Legal Project at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary, University of London." -- Acknowledgements, page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I - CLOUD COMPUTING ESSENTIALS 1. Kuan Hon and Christopher Millard: Cloud Technologies and Services 2. Kuan Hon and Christopher Millard: Control, Security and Risk in the Cloud Part II - CLOUD COMPUTING TRANSACTIONS 3. Simon Bradshaw, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden: Standard Contracts for Cloud Services 4. Kuan Hon, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden: Negotiated Contracts for Cloud Services 5. Kuan Hon, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden: Public Sector Cloud Contracts and the UK G-Cloud experience 6. Chris Reed and Alan Cunningham: Ownership and Licensing of Information in Clouds Part III - PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA IN CLOUDS 7. Kuan Hon, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden: What Information is Regulated as Personal Data in Cloud Environments? 8. Kuan Hon, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden: Who is Responsible for Personal Data in Clouds? 9. Kuan Hon, Julia Hornle and Christopher Millard: Which Law(s) Apply to Personal Data in Clouds? 10. Kuan Hon and Christopher Millard: How Do Restrictions on International Transfers of Personal Data Work in Clouds? Part IV - CLOUD REGULATION AND GOVERNANCE 11. Ian Walden: Law Enforcement Access to Data in Clouds 12. Ian Walden and Laise Da Corregio Luciano: Ensuring Competition in the Clouds 13. Alan Cunninham and Chris Reed: Consumer Protection in Cloud Environments 14. Chris Reed: Cloud Governance: The Way Forward.