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Researcher

Associate Professor Katharine Kemp

My Expertise

Competition law; consumer law; misuse of market power; data privacy regulation; digital platform regulation (eg, regulation of Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple).

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Privacy and data rights, Contract law, Commercial law not elsewhere classified

Biography

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...view more

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 Awards. 

Her advisory and editorial roles include representing Australia as a Non-Government Advisor to the International Competition Network, and acting as a Member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Finance Initiative in India, the Advisory Panel for Consumer Policy Research Centre and the Editorial Board of TechREG Chronicle, published by Competition Policy International.

She also convenes and lectures the Data Privacy Law course; the postgraduate course, Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of Fintech; and Contracts at UNSW Law.

Before joining the faculty, Katharine was a Research Fellow on the UNSW Digital Financial Services Research Team, conducting in-depth research into the regulation of digital financial services in developing countries in particular. 

She has also practised as a commercial lawyer at Allens, as a barrister in Melbourne, and consulted to the Competition Commission of South Africa during the six years that she lived and worked in South Africa. 


My Qualifications

BCom, LLB (Hons) (Qld), LLM (Stellenbosch), PhD (UNSW)


My Awards

2023 - Emerging Leader Award, national Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards

2023 - Award for Most Outstanding Presentation by an Established Academic, Australia New Zealand Consumer Law Roundtable

2019 – 2020 - UNSW Law Impact & Engagement Fellowship led research on the need for an unfair trade practices prohibition in Australia, following the award of competitive funding.

2016 - UNSW PhD Excellence Award for a dissertation receiving the highest available grades.

2015 - Garth Nettheim Doctoral Teaching Fellowship

2014 - Gaire Blunt Scholarship awarded by the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia for a paper on competition law.

2014 - Bruce Kercher Scholarship awarded by the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society to present a paper on the history of Australian competition law at the Society’s annual conference.

2013 – 2016 - Australian Postgraduate Award

2013 – 2016 - UNSW Law Faculty Top-Up Scholarship, for top-ranking Australian Postgraduate Award recipients


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Privacy Law - Competition Law (particularly Misuse of Market Power) - Consumer Protection


Currently supervising

Sriram Srikumar - PhD - The legal treatment of "formless" data used in automated decision systems (with Prof Lyria Bennett-Moses)

Kennedy Chege - PhD - The regulation of cartel conduct in the petroleum industry (with Prof Hanri Mostert)


My Teaching

Data Privacy Law LAWS3250 JURD7550

Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of Fintech

Contracts LAWS1075

Principles of Private Law LAWS 1150 JURD7150

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