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Mr Tony Song

Mr Tony Song

Adjunct Fellow Levels A-C
Law & Justice
School of Private & Commercial Law

Tony Song is an Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession in the School of Private and Commercial Law, UNSW Law & Justice. His research explores the impact of technology on law, the legal profession, and society — with particular interests in artificial intelligence, crypto/blockchain, ethics, and leadership. His academic work is informed by his day-to-day practical experience in trading, on-chain analysis, and ai agent orchestration.  

Tony previously worked as a Research Fellow with UNSW’s Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession (FLIP) Stream. He also worked on the Centre’s flagship Leadership for Lawyers executive course, co-designing and co-delivering the seminar on the PML (Practising, Managing, Leading) Trilemma. 
E-mail
t.song@unsw.edu.au
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Song A; Legg M, 2026, 'Time to lead for lawyers: a practicing, managing, leading (“PML”) trilemma', International Journal of the Legal Profession, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2026.2648992
    Journal articles | 2024
    Rogers J; Song T, 2024, 'Lawyers with Followings: The Rise of Lawyer-Influencers Online', Law Society Journal
    Journal articles | 2024
    Song T; Rogers J, 2024, 'Lawfluencers: Legal Professionalism on TikTok and YouTube', Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, 37, https://www.law.georgetown.edu/legal-ethics-journal/in-print/volume-37-issue-3-summer-2024/lawfluencers-legal-professionalism-on-tiktok-and-youtube/
    Journal articles | 2023
    Chen Y; Song T, 2023, 'The role of Australian Qualified Bilingual Lawyers', Law Society Journal
    Journal articles | 2023
    Rogers J; Song T, 2023, 'Building trust Part 3: Supervising new lawyers online', Law Society Journal
    Journal articles | 2023
    Rogers J; Song T, 2023, 'Digital Marketing in The Legal Profession: What’s Going On and Does It Matter?', Law, Technology and Humans, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/lthj.2828
    Journal articles | 2022
    Legg M; Song A; Bennett Moses L; Buckland R, 2022, 'Open Justice during a Pandemic – The Role and Risks of Remote Hearings', Public Law Review, 33, pp. 143 - 162
    Journal articles | 2022
    Rogers J; Song T, 2022, 'Building trust Part 1: Relationships with clients online', Law Society Journal
    Journal articles | 2022
    Rogers J; Song T, 2022, 'Building trust Part 2: Establishing trust in online and hybrid team settings', Law Society Journal
    Journal articles | 2022
    Song T; Serram S, 2022, 'Five innovative technology tools for small practices', Law Society Journal, https://lsj.com.au/articles/five-innovative-technology-tools-for-small-practices/
    Journal articles | 2022
    Vines P; Song A; Priestley M; Aboutanios E, 2022, 'Predicting Bearing Fault in the Drone Freight Industry: Legal Liability in Australia', Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 87, pp. 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.25172/jalc.87.2.4
    Journal articles | 2021
    Legg M; Song A, 2021, 'The Courts, the Remote Hearing and the Pandemic: From Action to Reflection', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 44, pp. 126 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.53637/zate4122
    Journal articles | 2020
    Legg M; Song A, 2020, 'Commercial Litigation and COVID-19 - the Role and Limits of Technology', AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS LAW REVIEW, 48, pp. 159 - 168
    Journal articles | 2020
    Legg M; Song T, 2020, 'The Courts and the Pandemic: The Role and Limits of Technology', Law Society Journal, https://lsj.com.au/articles/the-courts-and-the-pandemic-the-role-and-limits-of-technology/
  • Conference Presentations | 2024
    Legg M; Song T, 2024, 'Leadership for the Modern Law Firm', presented at Industry 4.0 – Navigating the Future of Legal Services, ANU College of Law, 14 June 2024 - 15 June 2024
    Conference Presentations | 2024
    Song T; Rogers J, 2024, 'Lawfluencers: Legal Professionalism on TikTok and YouTube', presented at Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 2024 Symposium, 05 April 2024
    Conference Presentations | 2023
    Song T, 2023, 'Tokenization of Real World Assets', presented at 2023 Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) Conference, 02 December 2023
    Reports | 2022
    Rogers J; Song T; Bell F, 2022, Building Trust, Lawyers’ Relationships with Clients and Colleagues Online: A Primer, FLIP Stream, https://www.lawsociety.com.au/sites/default/files/2022-11/LS3700_FLIP_FlipStreamPrimer2022-Trust_2022-11-4%20final.pdf
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Song T; Allen JG, 2022, 'Stablecoins, Regulation and the Evolution of Money', presented at CIBEL-CCLA Conference – Sustainable Banking and Financial Regulation in Asia: Principles, Practice and Innovation, 31 August 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Song T; Allen JG, 2022, 'Stablecoins: A Monetary Taxonomy', presented at NCKU The 3rd International Trends and Prospects Forum of FinTech, RegTech and Sustainable Finance, 04 November 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Song T; Blycha N; Parasol M; Buchan J, 2022, 'Metaverse', presented at Law Society of NSW FLIP Buzzwords Webinar, 31 August 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Song T; Foulds I; Lo D, 2022, 'Client Engagement: Building Trust Online', presented at The Law Society of New South Wales 2022 Conference, 05 September 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Song T, 2022, 'The Dark Forest of Cryptocurrency', presented at UNSOMNIA 2022, 07 September 2022
    Other | 2022
    Song T, 2022, Passion Project: Crypto and The Legal Profession (Are Smart Legal Contracts the Future?)
    Reports | 2021
    Legg M; Song T; Bennett Moses L; Buckland R, 2021, Open Justice: Court and Tribunal Information: Access, Disclosure and Publication, 46

Legal Academic of the Year 2022 Finalist – Law Society of NSW Law Awards

Tony’s research activities include:

  • Artificial intelligence and the legal profession: Examining how AI and technological innovation affect legal practice, law firm organisation and business models, professional judgement, and the regulation of legal services.
  • Digital money and stablecoins: Developing a functional framework for analysing stablecoins through their roles as money, with implications for their legal classification and regulation.
  • Decentralised finance and payment systems: Examining payment autonomy, reliance on intermediaries and the allocation of legal responsibility in decentralised systems.
  • Leadership in the legal profession: Examining how lawyers balance practising, managing and leading, and how law firms develop lawyer leaders.
  • Lawyers online: Examining lawyers’ digital marketing, social media presence and professional ethics, and how they build trust with clients online

  • Emerging technologies and the law: Examining how existing law applies to new technologies and how technology affects the administration of justice, including tort liability involving drones and the implications of remote hearings for open justice.