Associate Professor Moira Paterson

Director, Graduate Studies (1/01/2012-31/12/2013)
BEc, LLB(Hons), LLM, GCHE, PhD,

Professional Profile

Moira Paterson is an Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies in the Law Faculty and a member of the Monash University Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans and of its Management Committee. She has recently completed a term as Associate Dean (Undergraduate).

Moira teaches and researches in the field of information law, with a specific focus on freedom of Information and privacy.  She is the author of Freedom of Information and Privacy: Government and Information Access in the Modern State (LexisNexis/Butterworths, 2005) and FOI Editor of the Australian Administrative Law Service. She has received research grants for projects relating to the legal implications of shared electronic health records, the legal implications of e-research, and criminal records and employment and has completed research consultancies for the Victorian Public Accounts and Estimates Committee and the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

Admitted as a barrister and solicitor, Moira has been member of the Victorian Firearms Committee since 2007 and was appointed to the Commonwealth Privacy Advisory Committee in 2011. She is also a member of the Board of the Australian Privacy Foundation.

Her other external activities have included working as Honorary Consultant to the Australian Press Council in relation to a High Court amicus curiae brief, membership of two  National Electronic Health Transition Authority Privacy Roundtables, membership of  Advisory Committees to the Australian Law Reform Commission in relation to its review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and its review of the federal provisions in relation to the protection of Commonwealth information (secrecy laws) and  membership of the Consultative Committee to the Victorian Law Reform Commission in relation to its Report on Surveillance in Public Places.

A selection of Moira's publications is available on-line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=63958

Areas of Expertise

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

Teaching Commitments

Principles of Privacy and Freedom of Information (Sem 1/T2) (2012) (LAW7076)
Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Sem 2/T3) (2012) (LAW1101)