My Expertise
Law and technological change, legal and policy issues for big data, legal and policy issues for data and data analytics for law enforcement and national security
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Biography
Lyria is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor in the Faculty of Law 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 Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor in the Faculty of Law 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 issues associated with the use of “artificial intelligence” technologies, the appropriate legal framework for enhancing cyber security and oversight for law enforcement intelligence. Lyria is a member of the editorial boards for Law in Context, Technology and Regulation and Law, Technology and Humans, has led the UNSW Grand Challenge on “Living with 21st Century Technology”, and is the NSW co-ordinator for the Australian chapter of the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology.
My Grants
Cyber Security CRC
Post-doctoral fellowship (for Dr Heejin Kim)
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 (current)
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
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 Supervision
Areas of supervision
Law and technology
Currently supervising
Seiko Yamamoto, The Impact of Different Conceptions of Human Dignity on How the Creation, Use and Destruction of Human Embryos in Stem Cell Research is Regulated in the UK, France, Germany and Japan
Daniel Cater, Data to Decisions CRC PhD Scholarship, Data Privacy and National Security Powers: The theoretical and practical impact of citizenship and location
John Fitzgerald, Drawing and counting legislation - will it help?
Alexandre Fleck, What is the interaction among law, social movements, and social media - a case study on the #NeverAgain movement on gun control
Clare Daniel, Design of smart planning evaluation systems
My Engagement
Director, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation
Lead, Grand Challenge on Living with 21st Century Technology
NSW Co-ordinator and 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
Location
Level 3 (South East side)
The Law Building (F8)
University of New South Wales
UNSW Kensington Campus
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
(Access via Gate 2 off High Street)
Map reference (Google map)
Contact
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-1469