Associate Professor Moira Paterson

Director, Honours, Faculty of Law
BEc, LLB(Hons), LLM, GCHE, PhD,

Professional Profile

Moira Paterson is the author of Freedom of Information and Privacy: Government and Information Access in the Modern State (LexisNexis/Butterworths, 2005).  She has published widely in the areas of freedom of information, privacy, health records law and intellectual property.  She is the Honours Convenor and Copyright Officer for the Law Faculty and a legal member of the Monash University Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans.  She has won research grants for projects relating to the legal implications of shared electronic health records, models for private sector privacy laws and the impact of commercial confidentiality on government accountability and is an investigator in the DEST funded Dataset Acquasition Accessibility and Annotation e-Research Technologies Project (DART).  Moira is an FOI Editor of the Australian Administrative Law Service.  She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Australian Law Reform Commission in relation to its review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), a member of a Privacy Roundtable appointed to provide advice to the National Electronic Health Transition Authority and FOI Editor of the Australian Administrative Law Service.  She has also worked as Honorary Consultant to the Australian Press Council in relation to a High Court amicus curiae brief and as legal advisor to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee of the Victorian Parliament in relation to its report, Commercial in Confidence Material and the Public Interest (2000). She was a member of the Expert Advisory Committee on Privacy to the Victorian Law Reform Commission in relation to the VLRC’s Workplace Privacy Issues Paper (2002).

Areas of Expertise

Freedom of Information
Privacy
Administrative Law
Intellectual Property
Law and Technology/Law of the Internet

Teaching Commitments

Australian Legal System (LAW7212)
Introduction to Legal Reasoning (LAW1101)
Intellectual Property II (LAW5147)
Principles of Privacy and Freeedom of Information (LAW7076)
Privacy and Information Security Law in Cyberspace (LAW7246)