Graham Greenleaf's Web Pages - 2004

Thanks for visiting my web pages.  Most of my work concerns the inter-relationships between information technology and law.  At UNSW  in 2004 I am teaching  the LLM subjects   Internet Content Regulation and Data Surveillance and Information Privacy Law  and the undergraduate subject  Advanced Legal Research. Quite a bit of my time at UNSW  is taken up as Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII),  and the World Legal Information Insitute (WorldLII) and as Co-Director of the  Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre. I've also become one of the conveners of the Asia-Pacific Privacy Charter Council (APPCC). In January 2003 I returned to  UNSW Law Faculty after 18 months in Hong Kong.  From July 2001- December 2002 I was  appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Professor  at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. At HKU  I  led the introduction of the new Master of Laws in Information Technology Law ( commenced 2001-02, and taught Internet Governance  (LLAW6122),      Internet content : property and liability (LLAW6121),  Privacy and  Data Protection (LLAW6046),  some aspects of Advanced research methodology (LLAW6022) and co-teaching ITlaw@hku a 'broadening' course for  non-law students. I was also the  founding  Co-Director of the Hong Kong Legal Information Institute , and of the China Information Technology & Law Centre.  Graham Greenleaf Professor of Law, University of New South Wales  Faculty of Law This page is http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~graham/ Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) pages

A Colossus come to judgment: GIO's expert system on general damages Law & Information Technology column, (1993) 67 Australian Law Journal 220 , 220-223 - Not exactly 'new', but of renewed interest following the controversial use of Colossus by US insurance companies (see Google). (1/3/04)

The APEC privacy initiative:  'OECD Lite' for the Asia-Pacific?  - shorter versions are in Privacy Laws and Business International Newsletter Issue 71 (UK) and (2004) Vol 10 Issue 10 Privacy Law & Policy Reporter (Australia) (February 2004) (on LSN in PDF)

 'Privacy & Copyright:  - An uneasy relationship'(Powerpoints) 11th Copyright Law & Practice Symposium,Sydney, November 2003

'NSW to scrap Privacy Commissioner,  reduce privacy protection' (2003) 10(6) Privacy Law & Policy Reporter (November 2003) (co-author Nigel Waters)

'APEC privacy principles:   More Lite with every version' (2003) 10(6) Privacy Law & Policy Reporter (November 2003)

For the September 2003 privacy Conferences and APPCC meetings:

'Asia-Pacific privacy Commissioners - Black holes & Collective inaction' (Powerpoints) Parallel Session 6: " A Safe and Open Society: the role of privacy regulators, 25th International  Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner's Conference, 12 September 2003 and Accompanying Table (Can I get a Remedy?)

Privacy & FOI Law Project (on WorldLII) - search Commissioner's cases from 5 jurisdictions, PLPR and EPIC (September 2003)

APEC privacy principles Version 2 -  Not quite so Lite, and NZ wants OECD full strength (2003) 10 Privacy Law & Policy Reporter 43 (July 2003)

Reforming reporting of privacy cases:  A proposal for improving accountability of Asia-Pacific Privacy Commissioners (draft) for publication in a book in honour of retiring NZ Privacy Commissioner, Bruce Slane PRIVACY LAW AND POLICY IN NEW ZEALAND, Paul Roth (ed), Butterworths LexisNexis, Wellington, New Zealand, Forthcoming 2004 (on LSN in PDF)

'Australia's APEC Privacy Initiative: The pros and cons of  'OECD Lite',' [2003] 10 Privacy Law & Policy Reporter 1 (May 2003)

Co-convener, Asia-Pacific Privacy Charter  Council  (APPCC) (May 2003)

Web pages for the course Advanced Legal Reseearch (July 2003)

Recent cases: Is there fragmentation of Australia's public sector privacy laws? (Powerpoints) NSW Freedom of Information and Privacy Practitioners Network 22 May 2003

WorldLII:  A new home for Commonwealth law online- 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, 15 April 2003

Some wrong (and right) turns in cyberspace - HK & the PRC (Powerpoints) NSW Society for Computers and the Law Annual General Meeting (March 2003)

Web pages for the LLM subjects Internet Governance and   Internet Content Regulation

Web pages for the LLM subject Data Surveillance and Information Privacy Law

'IP, Phone Home: Privacy as Part of Copyright's Digital Commons,  in Hong Kong  and Australian law' in Lessig L Hochelaga Lectures 2002: The Innovation Commons Sweet & Maxwell Asia, Hong Kong, 2003 (in press, Dec 2002)

Teaching Resources on the Web

Web resources for UNSW subjects that I teach:

• Web pages for the LLM subject  Internet Governance,  and Internet Content  Regulation which I now teach. The C y b e r s p a c e - l a w  subject pages were used in my UNSW subject  LAWS3031 (LLB) Information Technology Law   (alias Cyberspace Law). This subject was taught entirely via the internet since Session 2 1997. As far as I know, it was the first law subject in Australia to be so taught.  I last taught this subject in Session 1 2001 and am now teaching the LLM versions.
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• Web pages for the course Advanced Legal Research , which I started teaching again in 2003.


• The Computerisation of Law subject pages are used in the UNSW subjects  LAWS1032 (LLB) Computer Applications to Law and  LAWS3035 (LLM) Developing Computer Applications to Law. I last taught LAWS 3035 in Session 2, 2000.


• LAWS3037 (LLM) Data Surveillance and Information Privacy Law , taught since 2001.

I'm a co-founder and Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) , one of the largest free access law sites on the web. AustLII is a joint facility of the Law Faculties of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). I'm the UNSW Co-Director (with Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung).  AustLII also jointly created the British & Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII), the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) (with USP Law School) and the  Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII) (with HKU), provides their software (as we do for CanLII) and continues to assist in their operation. Our philosophy is to assist others to created free-access Internet law facilities through the use of our software, expertise and experience, so as to help make law part of the world's digital commons. I'm also Co-Director (with Andrew and Philip) of WorldLII, the World Legal Information Institute <http://www.worldlii.org/> , the focus of our current efforts and the Internet's largest single source of free-access legal information. See the Montreal Declaration on public  access to law  for WorldLII's underlying philosophy, and About WorldLII for a brief description.   The most recent overview of of AustLII's activities is in the Transcript of my address, 'Philosophy, Practice and Future of the  Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII): Achieving the free availability of legal information on the Internet' Joint Symposium 2001  - Social Roles of Legal Information Database, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 19 May 200; published in SHIP Project Review 2001, Meiji University, Japan; You can read about  the development of AustLII to mid-1997 in The AustLII Papers - New Directions in Law via the Internet  (1997) - a detailed analysis of AustLII's purposes and projects (published in in the Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT)).

Most of the research projects in which I'm involved have web resources -

• Indexing and searching law on the internet  - This project aims to find a new way of facilitating world-wide legal research on the internet, by close integration of an intellectual index and a web-spider based search engine. I'm editor of AustLII's Australian Links and World Links internet indexes, and the related World Law Search facility. This project is supported by an Australian Research Council Small Grant, 1997-99. The most up-to-date paper is  'Solving the Problems of Finding Law on the Web: World Law and DIAL', 2000 (1) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology  (JILT) (co-authors Daniel Austin, Philip Chung, Andrew Mowbray, Jill Matthews and Madeleine Davis of AustLII); also presented at the16th Biennial LAWASIA Conferenc, Seoul, Korea, 7-11 September 1999

 
• Project DIAL - Project DIAL (Development of the Internet for Asian Law), a consultancy project for the Asian Development Bank, is  related to the previous project, and focusses on the specific needs of law reformers and legal draftspersons in the Developing Member Counties of the Bank for legal information, and how those needs can be met via the internet.. See Developing the Internet for Asian Law -  Project DIAL (A feasibility study and prototype) (Report to the Asian Development Bank, January 1998) for a the report on the feasibility study and prototype. The Bank has now provided funds for the development of the full DIAL system for 1999-2002.

 
• The nature of cyberspace regulation - The main focus of my research on cyberspace law is the regulation of the infrastructure of cyberspace, as opposed to the regulation of individual behaviour. For recent work on this, see An Endnote on Regulating Cyberspace: Architecture vs Law?  (1998) University of New South Wales Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 'Electronic Commerce: Legal Issues For The Information Age', November 1998.

 
• The international context of privacy regulation - My most recent substantial publication on this research is Global Protection of Privacy in Cyberspace - Implications for the Asia-Pacific  (Self-regulation, national laws and international agreements) (1998 Internet Law Symposium Science & Technology Law Center, Taiwan, June 1998).

 
• Legal inferencing systems and the internet - The home page for AustLII's Legal Inferencing Project gives links to all the developments on this project. Current research is outlined in 'With a wysh and a prayer: An Experiment in Cooperative Development of Legal Knowledgebases', 2000 (2) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) (co-authors Allen R,  Austin D, Chung P, and Mowbray A), and earlier work in  'New Legal Services via the Web - AustLII's Research on Legal Inferencing' (Chapter 5 of 'The AustLII Papers'). The wysh index catalogues the tools and applications produced by this project. This project was supported by an Australian Research Council Large Grant, 1997-2000.

 
• Furthering reconciliation via the internet - I supervised AustLII's indigenous law resources project (the Reconciliation and Social Justice Library), outlined in 'Indigenous Peoples' Legal issues via Internet' (Chapter 6 of 'The AustLII Papers'). This project was supported by an Australian Research Council Collaborative Grant, 1997-2000.

International Consultant,  Project DIAL , a consultancy appointment by the Asian Development Bank.

Member, Communications Network of the UNESCO National Commission (Australia)

Some recent previous appointments have included:  Member, Core Consultative Group on privacy legislation, appointed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General (1999);  Member, Government Public Key Authority (GPKA),  representing consumer and privacy interests (1998-99).
 

Publications

Apologies for the lack of a comprehensive set of links, but if you are looking for something I have written, here is a start:

• Recent publications which are on the web are listed in 'What's New' above and on the Previous Pubications page.
• My Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) pages
• A more comprehensive Publications list (web and print publications) includes links to many web publications but it is not fully up-to-date (current version is to October 2000), so read on.
• Some of of my publications can be found on AustLII in the Cyberspace Law Resources database (CyberLRes), and the Computerisation of Law Resources database (CompLRes).
• Privacy Law & Policy Reporter  contains a lot of my privacy writings, but the web version a volume in arrears of the printed version..
•  Most of my papers about AustLII and law on the web are in AustLII's index.

Privacy Law & Policy Reporter  is the monthly law journal which I founded and have been General Editor since 1994.  Nigel Waters is Associate Editor. The web version is published on AustLII, in arrears of the print version.  Submission of contributions is always welcome!