Research Projects and Supervision
Research Projects
- Unlocking IP project, including the Unlocking IP conference
- Interpreting Privacy Principles ARC research project
- Regulating Online Investing project
- Asia Pacific Privacy Charter
- Making Privacy Laws Work
- Digital Document Retention and Destruction Policies
- Spam: practical, policy and legal responses
Postgraduate research supervision
Current postgraduate research
The following postgraduate research theses relating to cyberspace,IT and intellectual property law are currently being completed by students supervised by our Research Associates:
- Carolyn Penfold - Incidental effects of Internet censorship laws (LLM by research) - Supervised by Professor Michael Chesterman and Professor Graham Greenleaf
- Dan Svantesson - Conflict of law in cyberspace: Sweden, Canada and Australia (LLM one session research thesis) - Supervised by Holly Raiche
- Maurice Bailey
- Marie-Ange Peslages
- John Selby
- Luigi Palombi - Patentability of gene sequence information - supervised by Jill McKeough.
Completed postgraduate research
The following postgraduate research degree relating to cyberspace law has been completed by students supervised by Centre Research Associates (completions since 2000):- Dr Kate Reid - Risk-e-business: A framework for legal risk management
developed through an analysis of selected legal risks in Internet commerce
(PhD) - Supervised by Professor Graham Greenleaf, Associate Professor
Rodger Jameison, and Brent Fisse (Gilbert + Tobin)
ABSTRACT
The research in this thesis investigates the extent to which risk management can be used in the context of legal risk. In addition, this thesis examines the usefulness of using risk management methodology for this purpose.
These issues are analysed using a two step process.The first part of this thesis involves examining risk management methodology and determining whether it can be used in the context of legal risk. The research then turns to developing a framework for legal risk management. The second part of this thesis involves testing the effectiveness and usefulness of the legal risk management framework developed. This is achieved by applying the legal risk management framework developed in relation to a particular commercial activity, the conduct of Internet commerce.
The research demonstrates that risk management methodology can be adapted for use in the context of legal risk. Not surprisingly, the research indicates that risk management methodology is best used when its purpose is to identify, analyse and manage legal risks affecting a specific business in a systematic and consistent way.
However, the research suggests that legal risk management may have wider uses, including its use as a technique for identifying areas of true legal uncertainty and areas for which law reform is required. In relation to Internet commerce, the research showed that whilst there are several contractual risks associated with Internet commerce their impact on the conduct of Internet commerce is not as great as has been previously suggested and, moreover, the effect of these risks can often be minimised if certain risk management strategies are implemented. The overall research conclusion in this thesis is that risk management can and should be used in the context of legal risk.