Fleur Johns is Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney. Fleur works in international law, legal theory, law and development, and law and technology. Her latest research has focused on the implications of digital technology for international law and politics, and on the international law of diplomacy. Fleur is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2021-2025). She has published six books, the most recent of which are #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Connection in a Divided World: Rethinking ...

Daniel Joyce is an Associate Professor at UNSW Law & Justice.  He specialises in international law, media law and human rights.  Daniel has an LLM and a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge.  He was the Whewell Scholar in international law and a Senior Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge.  He also spent a year as a Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. Daniel then undertook postdoctoral research as the Erik Castrén Fellow in international law and human rights at the University of Helsinki, where he remains an Affiliated Research Fellow.  Daniel is an Associate...

Matthew Kearnes is a member of the Environmental Humanities group, in the School of Humanities.

Matthew completed his BSc (honours) in Human Geography at Macquarie University and his PhD at the University of Newcastle. Before arriving at UNSW he held post-doctoral positions at the Department of Geography at the Open University and the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Most recently he held a Research Council’s UK Academic Fellowship at the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Department of Geography, Durham University.

Matthew's research is situated between the fields of...

Matthew is Director of Youth Law Australia (YLA), an affiliated Centre within UNSW Law and has held that position since 2011. Matthew’s  research addresses social policy contexts in which the human and legal rights of children and families are impacted. He has researched in the areas of technology-enabled abuse, child protection information sharing frameworks, family violence, privacy and telco consumer issues.  

Matthew is interested in developing innovative models of legal service delivery and exploring the role of service design and digital technologies in publicly funded legal assistance...

A/Prof Katharine Kemp is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, and leads the UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative. 

Katharine’s research focuses on competition, data privacy and consumer protection regulation. She has published widely in these fields, including "Misuse of Market Power: Rationale and Reform" (Cambridge University Press), "Competition Law of South Africa" (LexisNexis) with PJ Sutherland, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2023, she was awarded the Emerging Leader Award at the national Australian Financial Review Higher Education...

Professor Kingsford Smith’s research and publication is in the areas of corporate law and governance, financial regulation and regulatory theory and policy. The subject matter of her research ranges from director’s duties, through theory and practice of financial regulation, to empirical work on online investing and more recently the deterrent effects of enforcement using enforceable undertakings. She has published on the philosophy of fairness in financial markets and political obligation, and the idea of the ‘financial citizen’. As well as a critical appreciation of ‘responsive regulation’...

Zsofia Korosy is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Global and Public Law. The main focus of her research is oceans in international law, looking particularly at questions of conservation and environmental protection. She is interested more generally in environment-related regulation, both within Australia and internationally. At UNSW, she has taught Federal Constitutional Law and International Environmental Law. She is a fellow of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a member of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, where together with Bronwen Morgan she is co...

Jayson Lamchek is Research Associate on the 'Data Science in Humanitarianism: Confronting Novel Law and Policy Challenges' project. An interdisciplinary human rights scholar, Jayson is interested in the reconfiguration of human rights and Artificial Intelligence to address material inequality. He is exploring the implementation of the right to benefit from scientific progress (art. 27 UDHR) through benefit-sharing in Big Data.

He is also interested in the related issues of digital taxation and data as labor, and is developing a project on photo-interpretation reliability in policing and...

Michael Legg is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

He specialises in complex litigation, including regulatory litigation and class actions, and in innovation in the legal profession. 

He is the author of Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation (Federation Press, 2nd ed 2022) and Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law (Hart, 2022). He is the co-author of Corporate Misconduct and White-Collar Crime (Thomson Reuters, 2022), Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession (Hart, 2020), Civil Procedure in New South Wales (Thomson...

Peter is a part-time Professor of Practice (across the Schools of Management and Governance, and Information Systems & Technology Management) at UNSW Sydney Business School.

His research and consultancy focus is fair and responsible practices and processes in advanced data analytics and AI, including governance and assurance of multiparty data ecosystems and IoT deployments.

He serves on the NSW Government AI Review Committee, which reviews all proposed applications of automated decision making and AI by NSW government agencies, and the NSW statutory Information and Privacy Advisory...

Susanne Lloyd-Jones is a Cyber Security CRC Post Doctoral Fellow at the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation. Her professional background spans academia, government, industry and private practice.  Since joining the UNSW Allens Hub in November 2021, Susanne’s research has focused on cyber security law and policy, critical infrastructure regulation, law and technological change, and national security regulation in complex industry sectors, such as telecommunications, broadcasting, news media, digital platforms and cloud services. Recently, Susanne completed a CSCRC funded project...

Dr Kayleen Manwaring is Associate Professor in the School of Private and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law & Justice. Kayleen teaches law and technology, contract law, online content regulation, cyber security and corporations law. She has taught as a visitor at Kings College London and the University of Zurich. She is also currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Law) and serves on UNSW's Academic Board.

Her research concentrates on the intersection of sociotechnical change and private and commercial law, with a particular focus on challenges arising out of cyber-physical...

I joined UNSW Law School in October 2012, having taught at the University of Bristol, UK for seven years as Professor of Socio-legal Studies. Prior to Bristol, I taught at the University of Oxford for six years in association with the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, and both St Hilda’s College (1999-2001) and Wadham College (2002-2005). A very long time ago, I taught at the University of Sydney Law School. I am currently Professor of Law at UNSW Law.

Rob joined the UNSW Business School as a lecturer in September 2015. His research interests encompass competition law and policy as well as the regulation of networked industries and the financial services sector.

He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation at UNSW Law. Before his appointment, Rob was a research fellow at the Centre for International Finance and Regulation where he is investigated the intersection of competition law and financial services regulation and at Swinburne University of Technology where he researched spectrum management policy. He is...

Justine Nolan is the Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is an internationally recognised expert in modern slavery and human rights issues relating to business practices. For more than 25 years, Professor Nolan has provided advice and training to business, civil society, government and the UN on business and human rights and her career is notable for its collaborative approach and its strong and sustained engagement with diverse stakeholders. She has been a key driver of the Australian and global business and...

Dr Michael Richardson is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of the Arts & Media, UNSW. His transdisciplinary research investigates the intersection of affect, power and war through the lens of witnessing and testimony in culture, media and politics.  

In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma and Affect in Literature (Bloomsbury 2016) and is currently working on a book with the working title of Nonhuman Witnessing: Affect, Matter and Media After the End of the World. He holds an Australian Research Council...

Associate Professor Justine Rogers is a specialist in the history, workings, and future of the legal profession. Her research projects explore:

• legal ethics and regulation
• legal technology and innovation
• lawyers' identity and wellbeing
• legal education policy and practice.

Justine has published widely in international journals as well as for government and practitioner audiences. She has a special interest and expertise in empirical research, particularly qualitative approaches.

Justine was Deputy Director of the Law Society of NSW Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession ...

Rachel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health at UNSW. Her expertise is in public health, political economy, science and technology studies, social policy and media studies. Rachel’s current projects explore the rationales shaping developments in risk calculation, data integration, and automated decision-making in public health and social policy. Proposing an analysis attuned to the shifting political economy of ‘knowing’ populations (from social democratic to neoliberal welfare states), this research interrogates how contemporary power operates through the nexus of technology...

Dr Schulz (formerly Moore) is an Associate Professor, with qualifications in public health/epidemiology (PhD, University of Melbourne's Faculty of Medicine), law, and health social sciences. She combines these fields to specialise in health law and torts. Schulz also works as an Associate with UNSW Medicine in teaching, supervisory and research roles. In 2018, Schulz was the winner of the KPMG Inspiring Teacher Award in a First Year Undergraduate Program. In 2017, Schulz was the runner-up (2nd position) in the KPMG Inspiring Teacher Award in a First Year Undergraduate Program at UNSW. She also...

Nofar Sheffi works at the intersection of contract theory, critical theory and media theory, exploring various technologies of government, the operation of computer systems, the constitution of domains, and the internal dynamics of online marketplace platforms.

Research Fellow

Tony Song holds a LLB from UNSW has been working with the FLIP Stream for 3 years, initially as a research assistant and now a research fellow. Previously, Tony has worked in various legal centres, law firms (from boutique to BigLaw), courts and start-ups. Tony’s research interest covers the impact of technology on the legal profession and society, with a focus on artificial intelligence, remote courts, drones and web3.

Tony is most passionate about the intersection between law and crypto, including how smart legal contracts will change legal practice; how the new financial...

Alex Steel is Director AI Strategy Education, and a Professor in the Law Faculty.

Alex is an internationally recognised legal academic with research interests in both criminal law and legal education. He has numerous teaching awards including a Commonwealth Government Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  He has extensive experience in senior leadership at university level across teaching and student support with focus on digital innovation.  He divides his time between the Law Faculty and the Division of...

Simon Michael Taylor is a final-year PhD candidate at UNSW—supervised by DECRA Fellow Dr. Michael Richardson and ARC Future Fellow Professor Kalervo N. Gulson.

He broadly investigates biometrics, operational imaging, collaborative robotics and autonomous decision systems. He is a committee member in the working group IT-043-03 Trustworthiness in AI for Standards Australia.

His work is pertinent to evidence building on computational acts or agents with social ramifications from facial recognition; legal claims in the attribution of error in use of drones, surveillance and semi-autonomous...

Amelia Thorpe is Professor in Law. Amelia works in planning, property and environmental law, focusing on mobility and urban governance. Her approach is sociolegal and interdisciplinary, drawing on professional experience in planning and in public interest environmental law. Amelia has a particular interest in the governance of streets and is currently leading research on food delivery cyclists funded by the James Martin Institute for Public Policy.

Amelia has served on several boards and statutory bodies, including local and state planning and design review panels, the Independent Liquor...