Associate Professor Moira Paterson

Administrative Positions

Director, Graduate Studies

Chair, Law Faculty Graduate Studies Committee

Member, Monash Academic Board and the Academic Board Steering Committee

Member, Monash Human Research Ethics Committee and Management Committee of the Monash Human Research Ethics Committees

Member, Law Faculty Executive Committee

Member, Law Faculty Education Committee

Member, Law Faculty JD Committee

Previous:
2010-2011 Associate Dean (Undergraduate) and Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee
2004-2007: Honours Convenor, Faculty of Law

Educational History and Qualifications

Academic Qualifications

BEc (Monash)
LLB(Hons) (Melb)
LLM (London)
GCHE (Monash)
PhD (Monash)

Professional Qualifications

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Academic Awards and Distinctions

1981: Spero Wilson Scholarship, Jenks Exhibition in Conflict of Laws (University of Melbourne)

Employment History and Qualifications

Previous Employment

1998 - 2006: Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University

1991-97: Lecturer in Law, Monash University

External Appointments

Current:
Member of the Board of the Australian Privacy Foundation (appointed 2012)

Member of the Privacy Advisory Committee to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (appointed 2011)

Consultant to the Commissioner of Law Enforcement Data Security in relation to Surveillance Regulation (appointed 2010)

Victorian Firearm Appeals Tribunal (appointed 2010)

FOI Editor for the Australian Administrative Law Service (appointed 2005)

Previous:
Consultant to the Victorian Law Reform Commission in respect of its consultation paper on Surveillance in Public Places (2012)
Member of the Consultative Committee to the Victorian Law Reform Commission in relation to its Report on Surveillance in Public Places (2009 -2010)
Member of the Advisory Committee to the Australian Law Reform Commission in relation to its review of the Federal Provisions in realtion to the protection of Commonwealth Information (Secrecy Laws) (2008 - 2009)
Member of the Advisory Committee to the Australina Law Reform Commission in relation to its review of the Privacy Act 1988 ( 2006 - 2008)
High Court amicus curiae brief in the case of McKinnon v Secretary, Department of Treasury (2006)
Consultant to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee of the Victorian Parliament in respect of its inquiry inot Commercial in Confidence and the Public Interest (2000)

Professional Associations

Australian Institute of Administrative Law

Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand

Australian Privacy Foundation