TeLENZ 2022 New Zealand Conference on Law and Technology

Topic: Invisible Crime, Smart City, Smart Crime

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 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.

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.

Topic: Re-thinking Trade and Regulatory Paradigms for the Digital Eco-system through Development and Indigenous Lenses

Professor Kelsey, LLB (Hons)(Victoria), BCL (Oxford), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Auckland). She has worked at the University of Auckland since 1979 and was appointed to a personal Chair in Law in 1997. She is a key member of the Action

Resource Education Network of Aotearoa (Arena) and is actively involved in researching and speaking out against the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, free trade and corporate-led globalisation. She is also actively involved in campaigning for the New Zealand Government’s full recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and opposed the controversial seabed and foreshore legislation. Kelsey is an outspoken critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, of which New Zealand is a part. Jane Kelsey was recently appointed Emeritus Professor at the  Faculty of Law, University of Auckland.

Topic: NFTs and the Law of the Horse (and other oddities)

Associate Professor Alex Sims, Department of Commercial Law, University of Auckland. 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).

Topic: Significance of Trust to Technology Law and Policy

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 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 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.

Rob is a Distributed Systems Software Architect/Engineer and financial cryptographer at the intersection of digital identity, market design, and digital regulation. He is a co-founder of FinTech start-ups in financial data analytics, international trade payments, and impact investing. Rob worked on the NZ Data Commons, Co-Organises Legal Hackers NZ, and is bootstrapping a Web3 market technology startup focused on Social & Environmental (ESG) finance.

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).

Topic: Exploring the Concept of Jurisdiction on Online Hate Speech

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.

Topic: Visual Contracts: Would pictures in consumer credit contracts help vulnerable consumers?

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.

Topics: Unaware and Uninformed: The eroding moral foundations of online user agreements AND Debriefing the Inaugural Law and Technology Moot at UoA 

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. 

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.

Her honours research essay was on whether biometric technology has outgrown the right to be free from self-incrimination. In particular, she looked at whether 5th amendment protections would apply to prevent individuals in the United States from having to turn over data on devices encrypted by biometric technology.

Ella is currently a Winter Intern at Meredith Connell (MC). She is still keenly engaged in academic research. She is a managing editor of the Auckland University Law Review, and her article on a feminist approach to citizenship revocations in the United Kingdom is due to be published by the New Zealand Public Interest Law Journal later this year.

She is interested in issues around legal tech, women and the law, and litigation and dispute resolution. When not studying Ella is a keen swimmer.

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Privacy

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. 

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 (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.

Topic: Back to the Future? Teaching law in a time of rapid technological change

Dr. Hopkins is a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury Law School. He is a comparative public lawyer who specialises in disaster law, multi-level governance, administrative justice and anti-corruption. He is the current Director of the LEAD Institute for Law Emergencies and Disasters based at UC and chairs the International Disaster and Emergency Law Network (IDEAL.net). He is a Disciplinary Theme leader of QuakeCoRE and part of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge. He has long had an interest in the impact of information technology upon the legal system and most recently has led projects examining the role of such technologies in disasters.

Topic: A Sufficient Basis for the Moral Considerateness of AI Would Be?

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. 

Topic: They are Using my Data for What?

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.

Topic: Digital Twins - What do they mean for our cities and built environment

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 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 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.