Associate Professor Moira Paterson

Research Interests

Administrative Law and Regulation
Corporatisation/Privatisation
Freedom of Information
Intellectual Property
Internet/Cyber Law
Patents for Inventions
Privacy, Freedom of Speech
Science/Technology
Trade Marks

Editorial Boards

1995-date: Freedom of Information Editor, Australian Administrative Law Service (Butterworths) (jointly with Spencer Zifcak from 1995-6) Australian Administrative Law Service (Butterworths)

1985-89: Founding Editor, Freedom of Information Review (jointly with Paul Villanti)

Grants and Commissions

1993: Monash University Vice-Chancellors Travel Grant for of paper on Australian Freedom of Information developments to be presented at Commonwealth Law Conference; $2000

1995: Small Grant of $8320 for project titled "The Public/ Private Dichotomy in the Protection of Information Privacy"

1998: Small Grant of $11,600 for project titled "Commercial confidentiality and public accountability: an assessment of the legal framework"

2001: ARC Discovery Grant of $79,453 awarded in 2001 (to be administered by Deakin and shared between a team of four) for a three-year project titled "Electronic Health Records: Achieving an Effective and Ethical Legal and Recordkeeping Framework"

2003: Small Grant of $4,500 to assist with completion of monograph titled "Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia: Government in the Modern State"

2005: 2005: DEST- $125,000. The Dataset Acquasition, Access and Annotation Repository Technologies Project (DA3RT) (with David Lindsay). Total project* funding $3,237,000
(*Monash University is lead institution with partners: James Cook University, CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology, University of Queensland)

2006: Law Faculty small grant of $5500 to develop a framework for balancing national security and privacy in the regulation of Australian mobile platforms via international comparative benchmarking (with Dr Jonathan Clough and Mrs Sharon Wilson)

2006: Arts/Law small grant of $4875 for project titled "Living down the past? A pilot study of criminal record checks in employment in Victoria" (with Dr Georgina Heydon, Professor Carla Lipzig-Mumme, Dr Bronwyn Naylor and Professor Marilyn Pittard)

Publications

2008

'Shared electronic health records systems: the significance of the privacy dimension' (2008) 4 Privacy Law Bulletin 98- 104

2007

'Freedom of Information' in HP Lee and M Groves (eds), Australian Administrative Law: Fundamentals, Principles and Doctrine (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

'DART: A new missile in Australia’s e-research strategy' (with Anne Chin, David Lindsay and Ann Monotti) (2007) 31 (1) Online Information Review 116-34

'Freedom of Information' in Halsburys Laws of Australia

'Cloudy with a silver lining: McKinnon and freedom of information' (2007) 78 Precedent 39-41

Final Report for the Content and Rights Workpackage C6: Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility And Annotation E-Research Technologies Project (DART) April 2007 (co-authored with D Lindsay, A Monotti and A Chin)

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2007