about

A Wiradjuri Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Law Lecturer, living on Turrbal and Yugara land, researching the governance of artificial intelligence and digital platforms, the laws of democracy and privacy as a social good (at the Queensland University of Technology).

My current focus is on the regulation and good governance of AI; the development of new and adapted systems of rules, procedures and institutions to make AI fair and contestable.

  • I am a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the Digital Media Research Centre at QUT.

  • I graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Arts majoring in International Relations and English Literature in 2009. I was admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT in 2010 and worked as a Senior Associate at Ashurst in Sydney and Allen & Overy in London, specialising in major technhology transactions, IP and privacy law. I also worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

  • I have designed and taught law courses on intellectual property, internet regulation and data privacy and ethics for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

  • My doctoral thesis, The Datafied Polity, explores the democratic value of privacy in the context of data-driven, platform-mediated political campaigning. Combining doctrinal, theoretical and empirical methods, the work situates voter privacy within the Australian constitutional order, and evaluates legal pathways to better support the democratic interests it protects. I received a QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2023 for the work. My recently published work based on this research can be read in University of New South Wales Law Journal and SCRIPTed.

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