Lyria is a Professor and Head of the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. 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...view more
Lyria is a Professor and Head of the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. 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 a co-authored report on AI Decision-Making and Courts for the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration, second edition of a co-authored book on Artificial Intelligence, Robots and the Law, and ongoing work on AI standards through Standards Australia), and the appropriate legal framework for enhancing cyber security (as co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the recent 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 on the Executive Committee of the Australian Chapter of the IEEE’s Society for the Social Implications of Technology and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Law and the Royal Society of NSW.
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My Grants
Cyber Security CRC
Theme co-lead, Law and Policy (complete)
SOCRATES WP 8 (law and policy for software security) (complete)
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)
My Qualifications
LLB (UNSW)
BSc Hons 1 (UNSW)
LLM (Columbia)
JSD (Columbia)
Grad Dip Legal Practice (College of Law)
My Awards
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)
My Research Activities
Cyber security law and policy
Regulatory responses to AI
Use of AI in legal practice and legal institutions
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Law and technology (at PhD level only)
Currently supervising
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 Engagement
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 Teaching
- LAWS 3040: Regulation for Cyber Security
- LAWS3346 / JURD7546 / LAWS 8346: Law and Technology (Comparative Perspectives)
- ZZLJ9223: Cyber and the Law (UNSW Online)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-1469