Our Hub Fellow Kayleen Manwaring has been busy lately

In response to Kayleen’s previous submission to the ACCC (under the Hub name) regarding the discussion paper for the fifth interim report on the Digital Platform Services Inquiry, she was invited to join a limited numbers roundtable on 7 June 2022 with the ACCC Deputy Chair (Delia Rickard) and 2 other Commissioners to discuss consumer protection issues for the report;

Kayleen is leading a CSCRC project on cyber security and cloud providers, and the team is scheduled to deliver the final research report to the CSCRC by the end of August;

Kayleen has just finalised work on a special edition of the Global Privacy Law Review which contains five articles from Allens Hub members Dr Katharine Kemp, and Associate Professor Dr Rob Nicholls, and Kayleen herself on issues surrounding informed consent in Australian privacy law.  The special edition will be published in August;

Kayleen has also been working on several projects related to the right to repair in the wake of the Productivity Commission report. She collaborated with members of the Right to Repair and Greentech streams on an article discussing ‘What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology?’ in the Alternative Law Journal, published in June, and has recently submitted a book chapter on the right to repair in relation to cyber-physical devices and systems, in response to an invitation from Professors Stacy-Ann Elvy (UC Davis) and Nancy Kim (Illinois Tech) to be included in an upcoming international Cambridge Handbook on Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology. She also (virtually) attended the 2022 Australian Repair Summit on 5 August 2022.

Kayleen’s article on ‘Keeping the (good) faith: implications of emerging technologies for consumer insurance contracts’ with former Allens Hub member, Dr Zofia Bednarz, was shortlisted for the Australian Legal Research Awards in the Article/Chapter (ECR) category.