Kimberlee "Kim" Weatherall (born 1974) is an

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and professor of law at the

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Law School specialising in issues at the intersection of law and technology, as well as intellectual property law.

Career

Weatherall studied law at the

, then read for the

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at the

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and a Masters of Laws at

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, then worked for Mallesons Stephen Jaques law firm in Sydney before moving into academia. From 2003 to 2006 she was lecturer in law at the

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, from 2007 to 2011 she was senior lecturer in Law at The University of Queensland and from 2012 joined The University of Sydney as associate professor and from 2017 became professor of law at the

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. She is currently chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Weatherall is associate director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia and board member of the

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. She is also a Fellow at the Gradient Institute, and a research affiliate of the Humanising Machine Intelligence group at the Australian National University. She was awarded the third annual Rusty Wrench award for service to the

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community at

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2007. Weatherall was appointed to Australia's Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) in 2013. Her blog ''Weatherall's Law'', was called "one of the most interesting" law blogs by '' Australasian Business Intelligence'' in 2006. On 10 January 2007 Weatherall announced she would cease posting to the blog. She continues to blog on intellectual property law issues at ''LawFont''.

Research

Weatherall's current research focuses on the law relating to the collection, ownership, use and governance of data about and related to people, including privacy law, with the goal of ensuring that data collection, use and linkage, and data and

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are developed in ways that are beneficial to people and society.

Publications

Weatherall has been published in the '' Sydney Law Review'', '' Federal Law Review'', '' American University International Law Review'', '' Melbourne University Law Review'', the '' Journal of Economic Surveys'', and other journals. She is currently co-editor of the Sydney law school academic journal the '' Sydney Law Review.''

References

External links

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Weatherall's Law
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Kimberlee Weatherall at Sydney Law School
(2015 video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Weatherall, Kim 1974 births Living people Yale Law School alumni Academic staff of the University of Sydney Australian bloggers Australian women bloggers Copyright scholars University of Sydney alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford