2022 New Zealand Conference on Law and Technology:
Education, Practice and Policy
Date
Thursday 8th September 2022
Time: 8.30am – 6.40pm
Followed by networking and refreshments finishing at 7.45pm.
The conference is expected to take place face-to-face in Auckland.
Venue
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
City Campus
WZ Building Level 1 & Lecture Theatre WZ416
55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland CBD, New Zealand
Paid parking information is available here. Public transport is recommended.
Registration Now Closed
Provisional Conference Programme
| 8.30am | Registration Opens |
| 8.40am | Mihi and Welcome |
| 9.05am | Opening Keynote: Dr Andrew Butler |
| 9.15am | Plenary Speaker 1: Professor Jane Kelsey |
| 9.50am | Morning Tea |
| 10.10am | Session I: Law & Technology Implications and Issues 1 |
| 11.15am | Session II: Panel Discussion 1 – Non-fungible Tokens |
| 12.35pm | Lunch |
| 1.35pm | Plenary Speaker 2: Malcolm Fraser |
| 1.55pm | Session III: Law & Technology Implications and Issues 2 |
| 3.15pm | Session IV: Undergraduate Research and Initiatives |
| 3.35pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.55pm | Session V: Panel Discussion 2 – Data Sovereignty |
| 4.45pm | Session VI: Law & Technology Implications and Issues 3 |
| 5.50pm | Plenary Speaker 3: Gavin Cotterill |
| 6.10pm | Session VII: Panel Discussion 3 – Practitioners |
| 6.35pm | Closing Words |
| 6.40pm | Networking and Refreshments |
| 7.45pm | Ends |
Organised by the NZ Law Foundation-funded project TeLENZ – Technology in Legal Education for New Zealand.
Involving:
- All law faculties/schools in New Zealand
- Researchers involved with the NZ Law Foundation’s Information Law and Policy Project
- Law practitioners
- Government lawyers
- Legal and policy advisers from NGOs or social enterprises
Who Should Attend?
Participants, from across sectors, who have a strong interest in law and technology are welcome to register to attend or present, including:
- Academics who teach law;
- Researchers investigating legal issues, particularly in relation to technology;
- Legal practitioners, as well as professionals involved with legal or policy work related to technology;
- Legal regulators;
- Law librarians and legal information professionals;
- CPD providers;
- Legal academic course designers and researchers;
- Policymakers and policy advisors who work on technology-related issues;
- Professionals involved with legal, regulatory and policy relating to emerging, new or innovative technologies;
- Technologists interested in the impact of technology on the law and regulation.
In collaboration with:
Please note that photographs and video recordings will be taken throughout the conference. These may be used publicly, on social media, or on our web page. The video recordings of the presentations including Q&A sessions may be used for teaching and educational purposes. Please contact [email protected] if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.
Symposium Speakers and Abstracts (where applicable)
Associate Professor Wayne Rumbles - Welcome
Organisation: Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Position: TeLENZ Program Lead
Email: [email protected]
Wayne graduated BA/LLB in 1997 with majors in Law, History and English Literature. He completed LLM (Distinction) from the University of Waikato in 1998. He spent three years working in community law and worked for Te Matahauariki Research Institute for 10 years on the Laws and Institutions for Aotearoa/New Zealand project. Wayne has been an academic at Te Piringa – Faculty of Law for 20 years, and was Dean of Law from 2015 – 2020. Wayne teaches and researches in the areas of Cyber Law, Law and New Technologies, Criminal Law (with a focus on Cyber Crime), and teaches in New Zealand’s first Masters in Cyber-Security taught jointly by the Faculties of Law and Computer Science.
Associate Professor Khylee Quince, Dean AUT School of Law - Welcome
Organisation: School of Law, Auckland University of Technology
Potition: Dean
Associate Professor Khylee Quince is the Dean of the School of Law, where she has been on staff since 2017. Prior to that she was the Associate Dean Maori at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law, where she was on staff since 1998. Khylee is an expert in criminal law and justice, youth justice and Maori legal issues. She has taught and researched in these fields, and in 2014 was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence, following Faculty of Law and University of Auckland Teaching Awards in 2013. Khylee has extensive experience in governance, as chair of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, the Sursum Foundation charitable trust and as a trustee on school boards. She is regularly engaged as an expert consultant by government and non-government organisations, including the Ministry of Justice, Department of Corrections, New Zealand Police and TVNZ. She is currently a member of the New Zealand Parole Board.
Dr Andrew Butler - Opening Keynote
Organisation: Thorndon Chambers
Email: [email protected]
Andrew Butler is a seasoned litigator, with extensive appellate, trial and ADR experience. He is an acknowledged expert in commercial, trusts and public law. Much of his work has an international dimension. Andrew co-authored two books with Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC proposing that New Zealand adopt a written constitution. He is the editor of the Human Rights Reports of New Zealand (HRNZ) published by Brooker’s, as well as New Zealand correspondent for Butterworths Human Rights Cases (BHRC). Andrew is the Chair of the New Zealand Law Foundation, and a member of the NZ Law Society Human Rights and Privacy Committee.
Professor Jane Kelsey
Organisation: University of Auckland
Associate Professor Vernon Rive
Organisation: School of Law, Auckland University of Technology
Potition: Deputy Head
Vernon Rive joined the AUT Law School in 2009 after over 14 years of private practice, latterly as a partner in the Environmental/Resource Management team at the national law firm Chapman Tripp. His legal practice focused on advice to private and public clients on the resource management and public law aspects of land transport, infrastructure, property developments, subdivisions, retail resource management, energy, waste management, and environmental due diligence investigations. He has appeared before local authorities, the Environment Court, Land Valuation Tribunal, Maori Land Court, High Court and Supreme Court on various resource management, public and private law issues. Vernon is a co-convenor of the New Zealand Resource Management Law Association Academic Advisory Group, member of the managing committee of the New Zealand for Environmental Law, Consultant Editor of the LexisNexis Resource Management Bulletin and Affiliated Graduate Researcher at Melbourne Law School’s Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness. He has a particular interest in the use of digital technology in law teaching and research.
Associate Professor Alex Sims
Organisation: Department of Commercial Law, University of Auckland Business School
Position: Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Alex’s main area of research is blockchain technology, principally Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and NFTs. Her legacy research includes intellectual property law (primarily copyright) and consumer law. She is a co-author of the report Regulating Cryptocurrencies in New Zealand (funded by the Law Foundation) and E-Commerce and the Law (2nd ed, Thomson Reuters, 2020). She is a Research Associate of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, and a member of the Executive Committee of Blockchain NZ and the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB).
Dr Michael Dizon
Organisation: Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Michael Dizon, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato. His principal area of research is law and ICT (information and communications technology). He has conducted and published research on law and technology topics such as encryption, hacking, cybercrime and technology regulation. He also teaches courses on cyber law and cybersecurity law.
James Cochrane
Organisation: Partner, Stace Hammond
Email: [email protected]
James is a dispute resolution and litigation partner at Stace Hammond. He has significant banking and finance, insolvency, and insurance experience. He is also passionate about cryptocurrency / crypto-assets and web3 technology. In addition to working on some of New Zealand’s most notable insolvencies, he and the Stace Hammond Cryptocurrency / Crypto-assets team have advised a number of parties interested in digital assets including insolvency practitioners; private wealth clients in relation to tax, asset acquisition, structuring, protection and property transfer; and businesses in relation to gaming, crypto-mining, capital raising, structuring / decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), and the regulatory landscape.
Dr Karaitiana Taiuru
Organisation: Kaupapa Māori/Mātauranga Researcher
Website: https://www.taiuru.maori.nz
Dr Karaitiana Taiuru JP (Kai Tahu/Ngāti Kahungunu/Ngāti Toa) is an interdisciplinary Māori academic activist with almost 30 years of experience working in the ICT industry and with Māori property rights.
His PhD from Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, focuses on Māori and Intellectual Property Rights with Gene Technology and data sovereignty rights. His areas of interest include: the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI); colonisation; data sovereignty; genomic ethics; property rights and tikanga Māori. He is also the author of the only Māori NFT Guidelines.
He currently works as an independent Kaupapa Māori/Mātauranga researcher and an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland University Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering lecturing in tikanga with Robotics.
Malcolm Fraser
Organisation: Chief Data Steward and Executive Director, The Collaborative
Email: [email protected]
Malcolm is a governance professional, specialising in decision-making frameworks that unlock the value of data for organisations and their wider range of stakeholders. With a background in multi-national consulting and his own international start-up, Malcolm now heads up a not-for-profit (The Collaborative) to help government, industry and academia play-nice with data and drive collaborative innovation for local economies.
Since 2009, The Collaborative has helped policy makers, economic development specialists and senior leadership from industry and from around the world to understand the impact of digital technologies, and the emergent organisational forms and business models brought about by data, that they can either use to their advantage or ignore at their peril.
For this conference, Malcolm will share some of his learnings from their recent MBIE funded i4 Program for Data-Driven Innovation in New Zealand, and provide insights into how Data Governance, Data Ethics and the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence can benefit society and the equitable spread of economic opportunity.
Malcolm is Chief Data Steward and Executive Director at The Collaborative for the newly formed i4 Institute (www.i4.institute); and Chartered Fellow at Governance NZ and The Chartered Governance Institute International and Fellow IT Professionals NZ. (Malcolm Fraser | LinkedIn).
Associate Professor Wayne Rumbles
Organisation: Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Position: TeLENZ Program Lead
Email: [email protected]
Wayne graduated BA/LLB in 1997 with majors in Law, History and English Literature. He completed LLM (Distinction) from the University of Waikato in 1998. He spent three years working in community law and worked for Te Matahauariki Research Institute for 10 years on the Laws and Institutions for Aotearoa/New Zealand project. Wayne has been an academic at Te Piringa – Faculty of Law for 20 years, and was Dean of Law from 2015 – 2020. Wayne teaches and researches in the areas of Cyber Law, Law and New Technologies, Criminal Law (with a focus on Cyber Crime), and teaches in New Zealand’s first Masters in Cyber-Security taught jointly by the Faculties of Law and Computer Science.
Rachel Tan
Organisation: Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Position: PhD Candidate
Email: [email protected]
Rachel is a Teaching Fellow, Tutor and Research Assistant at Te Piringa, Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato. She completed her LLB in 2007 at Bond University, Australia. After working in military defence industries, IT and retail project management companies, Rachel decided to return to research in the exploration of cyberlaw as it has always been her interest. She completed her LLM (First Class Honours) at the University of Waikato in 2019, after which she commenced her PhD research. She is interested in cyberlaw, particularly in the challenges of regulating social media. Her thesis topic explores regulating online hate speech in social media environments.
Matt Bartlett
Organisation: University of Auckland
Position: Adjunct Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Matt Bartlett was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland until recently, departing in order to undertake postgraduate studies at Columbia University in New York City. At the University of Auckland, Matt delivered a new elective for the law school: ‘Technology Law and Policy’ and has also taught Legal Ethics and Law and Society. Matt has previously worked with the AI Forum and New Zealand Centre for ICT Law and has a wide range of research interests in the area of law and technology.
Michelle MacManus
Organisation: Massey Business School, Massey University
Email: [email protected]
Michelle MacManus is an Assistant Lecturer in business law at Massey University. In July 2022 she commenced a PhD in Commercial Law at the University of Auckland under the supervision of Associate Professor Alexandra Sims and Dr Bram van Wiele. Her PhD topic is on visual contracts, with a focus on their possible use for consumer credit contracts. Prior to joining Massey University, Michelle worked in Community Law, not for profit governance and private legal practice in the Manawatu.
Ella Shepherd
Position: TeLENZ Summer Research Scholar
Email: [email protected]
Ella is a fifth year BA/LLB(Hons) student at the University of Auckland. She was a TeLENZ summer researcher in summer of 2021, where she contributed to resources on quantum computing, NFTs, digital search and surveillance, Facebook regulation, cloud computing, and the misuse of personal information online.
Sneha Kant
Position: TeLENZ Summer Research Scholar
Email: [email protected]
Sneha Kant is a 5th year student completing a Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB(Hons)) at the University of Waikato alongside her part-time job as an administrative immigration assistant. Sneha completed her Honours dissertations in Cyber Law and International Humanitarian law, and interned for the TeLENZ Project as a Summer Research Scholar from December 2021 till February 2022. Sneha is shortly about to complete the final semester of her LLB(Hons) at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, before commencing a graduate position at DLA Piper Auckland. Through her tenure as a Summer Research Scholar for TeLENZ, Sneha was able to further her passion for cyber law in a variety of disciples which challenged her to think about issues beyond mainstream tech law.
Associate Professor Gehan Gunasekara
Email: [email protected]
Gehan Gunasekara is an Associate Professor in commercial law at the University of Auckland Business School. He has published internationally on data privacy and is a regular commentator in national media. Gehan was a member of the academic reference committee for the Review of Privacy by the New Zealand Law Commission completed in 2011, advising it on reforming the Privacy Act 1993 prior to its replacement in 2020. In 2016 he was instrumental in launching Privacy Foundation New Zealand Inc., a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for protection of the privacy rights of New Zealanders by providing independent, expert, and fair public comment on privacy, acting as its Chair from 2019 until 2022.Gehan Gunasekara is an Associate Professor in commercial law at the University of Auckland Business School. He has published internationally on data privacy and is a regular commentator in national media. Gehan was a member of the academic reference committee for the Review of Privacy by the New Zealand Law Commission completed in 2011, advising it on reforming the Privacy Act 1993 prior to its replacement in 2020. In 2016 he was instrumental in launching Privacy Foundation New Zealand Inc., a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for protection of the privacy rights of New Zealanders by providing independent, expert, and fair public comment on privacy, acting as its Chair from 2019 until 2022.
Associate Professor Māui Hudson
Organisation: Director Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato
Email: [email protected]
Associate Professor Māui Hudson (Whakatōhea, Ngāruahine, Te Māhurehure) is the Director of the Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato. He is an interdisciplinary researcher who focuses on the interface of mātauranga Māori and science and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. He is a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, as well as a co-author of the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance.
Professor W. John Hopkins
Organisation: Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury
Position: Professor of Law
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Hopkins is a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury (Ōtautahi Christchurch) and Director of the LEAD Institute for Law Emergencies and Disasters. He is a comparative public lawyer who specialises in anti-corruption and disaster law. He has a term interest in the intersection of law and technology.
He has held a number of visiting positions including at the University of Georgetown (as the NZ Fulbright scholar), Central European University (Budapest), the University of Primorska (Slovenia) and the University of Oxford. In 2013 he was elected to the International Academy of Comparative Law and is the current New Zealand Chair of the Australasian Law Academics Association.
Gay Morgan
Organisation: Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Gay Morgan is a Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa – Faculty of Law. Gay graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Colorado, and later graduated Summa Cum Laude with JD from the University of San Diego. She also graduated with Masters in Law from Yale University. Ms Morgan has been admitted to the California and Eighth Circuit bars.
She is a founding member of the New Zealand Human Rights Foundation, a member of the Australia & New Zealand Law and History Society and a member of several international public law forums. Her main teaching and research interests are in Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal Theory.
Dr Eliana Herrera-Vega
Organisation: Paris VIII University, France
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Eliana Herrera-Vega is a Colombian and Canadian national based in New Zealand. She is a lawyer and holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Paris VIII and the University of Quebec. Before coming to the country she taught at the University of Ottawa. Her research is multidisciplinary and she has presented it in North America, Latin America and Europe. Her articles have appeared in Current Sociology, Futures Research, L’Harmattan, and the New Zealand Law Journal.
Currently, she is an independent researcher working on Artificial Intelligence used virtuously to assist government with climate change, and is also collaborating with Emeritus Professor Jacques Poulain of the University of Paris VIII on Artificial Intelligence in lethal autonomous weapons.
Dr Andelka Phillips
Organisation: TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
Email: [email protected]
Dr Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Law, Science and Technology at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX). Dr Phillips’ research interests are broadly in the areas of technology, health and privacy law. She is interested in the governance of new, emerging, and future technologies and their impacts on people, the environment, and the planet.
She is also interested in the impacts of technologies on children and vulnerable people and protection of privacy in digital environments. Her work also includes consideration of how privacy policies and online wrap contracts could be improved from both privacy/data protection and consumer protection perspectives; together with consideration of issues raised by dark patterns in web design; the Internet of Things; surveillance technologies; artificial intelligence and regulation of robotics; synthetic biology; cyber security; and responsible innovation.
Much of her recent research has been concerned with the regulation of the personal genomics industry and this is the subject of her book Buying Your Self on the Internet: Wrap Contracts and Personal Genomics, published by Edinburgh University Press as the first volume in its Future Law series.
Gavin Cotterill
Organisation: Cohesive and (ANZ) Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task Group
Email: [email protected]
Gavin leads the Cohesive (Asia Pacific) Digital practice and over the last fifteen years has developed a track record of delivering successful innovative Digital business change programs. Ranging from Digital strategy and business case development, to practical implementation Gavin provides policy and delivery advice for governments and private owner / operators within the Built and natural Environment. These Digital programs include the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twin and Smart City strategies to help improve capital project delivery, asset performance, service delivery and ultimately social outcomes.
Gavin’s passion for a digital future for our cities and built environment sees him involved in several initiatives such as co-chairing the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group and assisting Standards Australia Smart Cities standards reference group.
Gavin is currently part of the ISO working group for Digital Twin standards (JT-001-02 AG 11) and has previously supported the development of the international standard for Building Information modelling, ISO19650.
Andrew King
Organisation: Legal Innovate, LawFest, LegalTech Hub & E-Discovery Consulting
Position: Founder and Director
Email: [email protected]
Andrew King is the founder of Legal Innovate, helping lawyers and their organisations successfully innovate by effectively leveraging technology.
Andrew has unparalleled knowledge and deep expertise in the New Zealand legal + tech market, gained over 20+ years working with leading companies in New Zealand and globally. Over the past 10 years, Legal Innovate has helped 1,000+ lawyers, 200+ law firms and 70+ in-house legal teams in New Zealand discover how to successfully improve the way they deliver legal services and effectively deploy technology.
Fiona Seal
Organisation: EY Law
Position: Solicitor (Corporate & Commercial Law/Data Technology Law)
Email: [email protected]
Fiona Seal is a Solicitor in the Data & Technology and Corporate & Commercial Law teams of EY Law where she advises global clients in matters of emerging technology, privacy and data strategy. She holds a Masters in Law with Distinction from the University of Otago on the subject of Artificial Intelligence regulation. In her thesis, she explores the Administrative Law considerations associated with the deployment of artificially intelligent systems in the commercial world. She also analyses regulatory strategies and proposes a regulator for Artificial Intelligence in New Zealand in the form of the Commerce Commission.