Petroula Vantsiouri, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gave an evening seminar entitled "The Justifications Behind the Legal Protection of Self-help Mechanisms" on Friday 30th November 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Petroula Vantsiouri is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie in intellectual property law and information law. Her doctoral thesis takes a comparative stand towards the intended and unintended consequences of anticircumvention regulation in the European Union and in the United States, as they are applied in different sectors, namely broadcasting, software and other copyright works. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk