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Professor Lyria Bennett Moses

Professor Lyria Bennett Moses

Head of School

LLB (UNSW)

BSc Hons 1 (UNSW)

LLM (Columbia)

JSD (Columbia)

Grad Dip Legal Practice (College of Law)

Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Lyria is Head of the School of Law, Society and Criminology and a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and Faculty Lead, Law and Justice in the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security. Lyria's research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation. Recently, she has been working on legal and policy issues associated with the use of artificial intelligence (including second editions of a book co-authored with Dr Michael Guihot and published by LexisNexis on Artificial Intelligence, Robots and the Law,  a co-authored report on AI Decision-Making and Courts for the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration, and ongoing work on standards through Standards Australia), and the appropriate legal framework for enhancing cyber security (through the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre). Lyria is a member of the editorial boards for Technology and Regulation; Law, Technology and Humans; Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law; and Law in Context. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Phone
+61-2-9385 2254
E-mail
lyria@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 246 Level 2 (main corridor) Law & Justice (Building F8) University of New South Wales UNSW Kensington Campus Sydney NSW 2052 Australia (Access via Gate 2 off High Street)

Cyber Security CRC

Theme co-lead, Law and Policy (current)

SOCRATES WP 8 (law and policy for software security) (current)

Project - Data 'sharing': Clarity in contracting (complete)

Data to Decisions CRC

Project D. Articulating law and policy principles for guiding Big Data usage for defence, national security and law enforcement purposes (complete)

Project B4. Practical perspectives on a balanced, enabling regulatory framework for data-based decision-support technologies used by law enforcement and national security in Australia (complete)

Project B2. Practical perspectives on a balanced, enabling regulatory framework for data-based decision-support technologies used by law enforcement and national security in Australia: Information sharing and the NCIS (complete)

Project A: Designing a balanced, enabling regulatory framework for data-based decision-support technologies used by law enforcement and national security in Australia (complete)

Big Data and National Security: Comparative International Perspectives on Strategy, Policy and Law (complete)

Partnership Development Grant (SSHRC Canada)

Conceptions of Intelligence: Building a Cross National Comparative Analysis of Practices and Frameworks for Policing (complete)

PLUS Alliance

PLuS Alliance Grant: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Knowledge-­‐to-­‐ Action Framework for Implementation and Evaluation (complete)

UNSW

UNSW SEF Aligning learning, assessment and technology: trialling use of computers by students to complete examinations (complete)

UNSW Goldstar Adapting Law to New Technology (complete)

UNSW FRG Internet Content Regulation (complete)

UNSW ECR Virtual Worlds (complete)

 

2020 Jones Day Professor in Commercial Law, Singapore Management University

UNSW Law Dean's Leadership Award (2018)

Data to Decisions CRC - CEO's Award (2017) and Team Collaboration Award (2016)

Australian Academy of Law Essay Prize (shared 2016)

UNSW Goldstar (2013)

Equal first place, Graduate Student Paper Competition, International Association of Science, Technology and Society (IALTS) (2007)

University Medal in Pure Mathematics (1999)

Co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre: A program of research exploring how law and policy can enhance cyber security practice.

Regulatory responses to AI

Use of AI in legal practice and legal institutions

Fellow, Australian Academy of Law

Fellow, Royal Society of NSW

Past Chair, IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), Australia Chapter

Member of Editorial Board, Technology and Regulation

Member of Editorial Board, Law, Technology and Humans

Member of International Editorial Board, Law in Context

Member, Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences

Member, Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales

My Research Supervision

John Fitzgerald, To investigate a quantitative methodology of statutory interpretation for identifying the internal context of legislation

Alexandre Fleck, What is the interaction among law, social movements, and social media - a case study on the #NeverAgain movement on gun control

Mia Bridle, Quantitative Approaches in Migration and Refugee Law

Keyvan Dorostkar, Understanding timeliness of asylum procedures in Australia

 

 

My Teaching

  • LAWS 3040:  Regulation for Cyber Security
  • LAWS3346 / JURD7546 / LAWS 8346: Law and Technology (Comparative Perspectives)
  • ZZLJ9223: Cyber and the Law (UNSW Online)