Associate Professor Kayleen Manwaring
PhD, LLM (Media, Communications and Information Technology) (麻豆社madou)
Grad Dip Communications,听Grad Dip Legal Practice (UTS)
BA LLB (Hons Class I) (Syd)
Dr Kayleen Manwaring joined the School of Private & Commercial Law in 2021, transferring from the Business Faculty (where she held an appointment from 2012) to 麻豆社madou Law & Justice. Kayleen teaches law and technology, contract law,听online content regulation, cyber security and corporations law and is the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Law). She also currently serves on 麻豆社madou's Academic Board.
Her听research concentrates on听the intersection of sociotechnical change and private and commercial law, with a particular focus on challenges arising out of cyber-physical technologies. She focuses听on听the law of contract, consumer protection, intellectual property, and corporations law. She听has previously published work relating to the Internet of Things and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, quantum technologies, cyber security, insurance and AI, the right to repair, critical infrastructure regulation, online contracting, directors' duties, network neutrality, copyright and digital technologies, privacy, spam and communications.听 In 2024, she was appointed Yong Pung How School of Law Visiting Scholar at Singapore Management University. In 2022-2023, she undertook a Senior Research Fellowship in the听. She is also a member of the 听and the 麻豆社madou AI Institute.
Her work has been cited by the Australian and NSW Law Reform Commissions, the Organisation for Economic Development, the World Economic Forum, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Council of Learned Academies, the United States Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Austrian (EU) Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, the Consumer Policy Research Centre听and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN). She is a member of the Research Committee of the Consumer Policy Research Centre.
Prior to becoming an academic, she spent many years working as a commercial lawyer, as in-house counsel and in law firm knowledge management, in Sydney and London, for Blake Dawson (now Ashurst), AMP, Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills) and SJ Berwin (later King & Wood Mallesons). Her work in practice primarily focused on commercial contracts in the area of technology acquisition and licensing, intellectual property, and communications. Her first professional job was as an information consultant for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
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IFCyber Seed Funding grant 2024 ($12 000) co-investigator for a project entitled 'Transition to Quantum Safe Technologies: Technical and Legal Challenges' lead applicant Sushmita Ruj, co-applicants Ron van der Mayden, Marc de Leeuw
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Singapore Management University Yong Pung How Law School Visiting Scholar grant 2024听(SGD 2500)
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麻豆社madou Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation Research Stream Grant 2023-2024 -听for a research stream entitled 'Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World' ($15000)听
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Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre 2023-24 - co-investigator for a research project entitled 'SOCRATES: Software Security with a Focus on Critical Technologies' 听co-investigators Apro Gustavo Batista, Apro Yang Song, Dr Arash Shaghaghi, Dr Helen Paik, Dr Siqi Ma, Dr Sushmita Ruj, Prof Lyria Bennett Moses, Prof Sanjay Jha ($172,836)
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麻豆社madou Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation Research Stream Grant 2023 -听for a research stream entitled 'Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World' ($4963)听
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Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre 2022 - for a research project entitled 'Complex regimes: mapping Australia's cyber security landscape for cloud services', Project Lead, co-investigators A/Prof Rob Nicholls and Dr Tyrone Berger
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麻豆社madou Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation Research Stream Grant 2022 -听for a research stream entitled 'Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World' ($9946)听
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麻豆社madou Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation Research Stream Grant 2021 -听for a research stream entitled 'Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World' ($9550)听
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麻豆社madou Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation Research Grant 2020听- for a research project on AI, Big Data and Financial Services ($5000) with Zofia Bednarz
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International Association of Privacy Professionals 鈥 Australia/New Zealand Chapter Inc (iappANZ) Privacy Legacy Grant 2019 - for a听research project entitled '(mis)Informed Consent: Privacy, Unfair Contract and Unconscionable Conduct' ($30,000) with Rob Nicholls and Katharine Kemp
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麻豆社madou Business School Special Research Grant 2019听for a research project听entitled 鈥楢utonomous 鈥業ntellectics鈥 and Accountability ($10,000)
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麻豆社madou Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation Summer Research Grant 2019听- for a research project entitled 鈥楥orporate Social Responsibility and Cyber Security in Cyber-Physical Systems鈥 ($5000)
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麻豆社madou Business School Summer Research Scholarship 2019听Research Project Supervisor for a research project entitled 鈥楾o what extent can existing consumer protection laws protect consumers against cybersecurity threats inherent in emerging technologies?鈥 ($5000)
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麻豆社madou PVCE Digital Uplift Grant 2018 -听for the postgraduate course TABL5541 Corporations and Business Associations Law
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麻豆社madou Business School Summer Research Scholarship 2016听Research Project Supervisor for a research project entitled 鈥楴etwork neutrality in the age of the Internet of Things鈥 ($4400)
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麻豆社madou Business School Summer Research Scholarship 2016听Joint Research Project Supervisor for a research project entitled 鈥楢 duty to secure?听 Cyber security breaches, directors鈥 duties and shareholder actions鈥 ($4400) with Pamela Hanrahan
Fellowships
- Singapore Management University Yong Pung How Law School Visiting Scholar 2024
- 麻豆社madou Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation Senior Research Fellowship 2022-2023
- 麻豆社madou Law & Justice Research Fellowship 2022鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧 (not taken up)
Prizes
- Winner, Google Prize (best postgraduate paper), BILETA Conference, 10-11 April 2018, Aberdeen鈥嬧
Awards
- Shortlist, Best journal article/book chapter, Australian Legal Research Awards, 2023 (with Z Bednarz)
- Shortlist, Best ECR journal article/book chapter, Australian Legal Research Awards, 2022 (with Z Bednarz)
- ARC Postgraduate Council
- 麻豆社madou Business Staff Excellence Awards 2021: (as part of the BCom project team)
- 麻豆社madou Business Staff Excellence Awards 2018: Research Achievement - School of Taxation and Business Law
- , April 2016, Rome
- 麻豆社madou Graduate Research School:听1 of 3 PhD candidates across 麻豆社madou granted fully paid participation in Universitas21 conference on 鈥極ur Digital Future鈥 in Shanghai, China, 2015
- Deans List for Best Performance in subject: E-commerce Law
- Deans List for Best Performance in subject: Law & the Culture Industries
Kayleen is currently working on a number of research projects relating to the legal implications of sociotechnical change:
* Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World
* right to repair: connected devices, medical devices and assistive technologies
* technological implementation of private law rules in smart devices
* quantum technologies, particularly quantum-safe encryption
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My Research Supervision
Bruce Duncan, PhD candidate (with Professor Deborah Healey and Dr Lu Wang)听听
Shohini Sengupta, PhD candidate (with Professor Ross Buckley and Dr Natalia Jevglevskaja听
Completed supervisions
Thomas Davie, Honours
Vanessa Ha, Honours
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My Teaching
Business Associations (LAWS1091/JURD7224)
Contracts (LAWS1075/JURD7175)
Law and Technology: Comparative Perspectives (LAWS3346/JURD7546/LAWS8346)
Online Content Regulation (LAWS8040/JURD7440)
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