Associate Professor Moira Paterson

Research Interests

Freedom of Information
Intellectual Property
Internet/Cyber Law
Privacy, Freedom of Speech

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

No current projects

Masters:

No current projects

Doctoral:

PhD:

Is there a need for a tort of privacy in Hong Kong in the digital age? Where the law was and where the law is and where the law should be? (PhD: Main Supervisor)

Open Source Software Licenses in Collaborative Projects
(PhD: Associate Supervisor)

Victorian Institute of Teaching and teachers with criminal records -visionary or reactionary gate keeper. (PhD: Main Supervisor)

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

2009: ARC Linkage Grant (with Professor Marilyn Pittard, Associate Professor Moira Paterson and Dr Georgina Heydon). Living down the past: Criminal record checks and access to employment for ex-offenders.

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 was 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

2012

Kay Jones,  Trisha Dunning, Beth Costa,  Kristine Fitzgerald,  Akuh Adaji,  Colin Chapman,  Leon Piterman,  Moira Paterson,  Peter Schattner,  and John Catford,  'The CDM-Net project: the development, implementation and evaluation of a broadband-based network for managing chronic disease' (2012) International Journal of Family Medicine . 1-7.

2011

Journal articles

M Paterson and B Naylor. 'Australian spent convictions reform: A contextual analysis' (2011) 34(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal 938-963.

M Paterson, 'Criminal records, spent convictions and privacy: a trans-Tasman comparison', (2011) 2011(1) New Zealand Law Review 69-89.

M Paterson, K Jones, P Schattner, A Adaji, L Piterman, 'Electronic care plans and medicolegal liability' (2011) Australian Family Physician  432-434.

M Paterson, K Jones, 'IT-based collaborative healthcare initiatives: a legal (2011) 61(3) Telecommunications Journal of Australia 42.1-42.10.

G Heydon, B Naylor, M Paterson, M Pittard,'Lawyers on the record: criminal records, employment decisions and lawyers' counsel', (2011) 32(2) Adelaide Law Review 205-225.

Reports

M Georgeff, J Hilton, L Piterman, C Chapman, L Segal, M Paterson, P Schattner, K Jones, A Adaji, D Mortimer, T Dunning, B Costa, K Fitzgerald, B Rasmussen, K Sweeny, 'CDM-Net - A broadband health network for transforming chronic disease management: Final report', (Precedence Healthcare, Melbourne, Australia, 2011) 1-192.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011