My Expertise
Law and technological change, legal issues around automation of government decision-making, law and policy for cyber security, regulation of AI, use of AI in courts and tribunals.
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Law in context, Law, science and technologySEO tags
Biography
Lyria is Academic Director, Research in the Division of Research and Enterprise.
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, regulatory and policy...view more
Lyria is Academic Director, Research in the Division of Research and Enterprise.
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, regulatory and policy issues associated with artificial intelligence as well as the use of artificial intelligence in courts and tribunals. Lyria is a member of the editorial boards for Technology and Regulation; Law, Technology and Humans; and the Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law and the Standards Australia committee for artificial intelligence standards. She 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
Legal and regulatory responses to AI
Use of AI in courts and tribunals
My Engagement
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
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, Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences
My Teaching
- LAWS 3040: Regulation for Cyber Security
- LAWS3346 / JURD7546 / LAWS 8346: Law and Technology (Comparative Perspectives)
- ZZLJ9223: Cyber and the Law (UNSW Online)
Location
Level 4
Rupert Myers South
University of New South Wales
UNSW Kensington Campus
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
(Access via Gate 14 off Barker Street)
Map reference (Google map)
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-1469