Senior Lecturer
Dr Kayleen Manwaring
PhD, LLM (Media, Communications and Information Technology) (UNSW)
Grad Dip Communications, Grad Dip Legal Studies (UTS)
BA LLB (Hons I) (Syd)
Law & Justice
Sch of Private&Commercial Law
Dr Kayleen Manwaring is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law & Justice. She joined the School of Private & Commercial Law in 2021, transferring from UNSW Business after a number of years teaching corporations law and intellectual property to business students. Kayleen leads a research stream on Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World as part of The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, and is also a member of the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation, the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security, and the UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute.
Her research concentrates on the intersection of sociotechnical change and private and commercial law. She focuses on the law of contract, consumer protection, intellectual property law and corporations law. She has previously published work on the Internet of Things, ubiquitous/pervasive computing, cyber security, ambient intelligence, consumer protection, online contracting, directors' duties, network neutrality, copyright and digital technologies, privacy, spam and communications law. Her work has been cited by the Organisation for Economic Development, the World Economic Forum, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the NSW Law Reform 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 and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN). She is an invited peer reviewer for the leading journals Computer Law & Security Review, International Journal of Law & Information Technology, Law, Technology & Humans, Australian Business Law Review, Competition and Consumer Law Journal, Internet Policy Review, GenIUS - Review of Legal Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and Australian Tax Forum.
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).
Phone
61 2 9385 7631
Location
Level 2
Law & Justice Building
UNSW Kensington NSW 2052
Bedegal Country
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Publications
Awards
Prizes
- Winner, Google Prize (best postgraduate paper), BILETA Conference, 10-11 April 2018, Aberdeen
Awards
- UNSW Law & Justice Research Fellowship 2022
- UNSW Business Staff Excellence Awards 2018: Research Achievement - School of Taxation and Business Law
- Best PhD Project, International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (Doctoral Consortium), April 2016, Rome
- UNSW Graduate Research School: 1 of 3 PhD candidates across UNSW granted fully paid participation in Universitas21 conference on ‘Our Digital Future’ 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
Grants
- Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation Research Stream Grant 2021 - for a research stream entitled 'Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World' ($9550)
- UNSW Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation Research Grant 2020 - for a research project on AI, Big Data and Financial Services ($5000) with Zofia Bednarz
- International Association of Privacy Professionals – Australia/New Zealand Chapter Inc (iappANZ) Privacy Legacy Grant 2019 - for a research project entitled '(mis)Informed Consent: Privacy, Unfair Contract and Unconscionable Conduct' ($30,000) with Rob Nicholls and Katharine Kemp
- UNSW Business School Special Research Grant 2019 for a research project entitled ‘Autonomous ‘Intellectics’ and Accountability ($10,000)
- UNSW Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation Summer Research Grant 2019 - for a research project entitled ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Cyber Security in Cyber-Physical Systems’ ($5000)
- UNSW Business School Summer Research Scholarship 2019 Research Project Supervisor for a research project entitled ‘To what extent can existing consumer protection laws protect consumers against cybersecurity threats inherent in emerging technologies?’ ($5000)
- UNSW PVCE Digital Uplift Grant 2018 - for the postgraduate course TABL5541 Corporations and Business Associations Law
- UNSW Business School Summer Research Scholarship 2016 Research Project Supervisor for a research project entitled ‘Network neutrality in the age of the Internet of Things’ ($4400)
- UNSW Business School Summer Research Scholarship 2016 Joint Research Project Supervisor for a research project entitled ‘A duty to secure? Cyber security breaches, directors’ duties and shareholder actions’ ($4400) with Pamela Hanrahan