Alana Maurushat
Senior Lecturer, Academic Co-Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
PhD (University of New South Wales), LLM (University of Ottawa), LLB (Mcgill), BCL (McGill), BA (University of Calgary)
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Brief overview
I have spent the last decade working abroad in Hong Kong, France, the United States, Canada and Australia in the fields of intellectual property, information technology law and cybercrime/cybersecurity. I am currently Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Co-Academic Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Community, UNSW.
Areas of expertise
- Big Data for national security and law enforcement
- Cybersecurity
- Cybercrime
- Ethical Hacking
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Security Vulnerabilities
- Cyberwar
- Digial Copyright
- Information Technology Law
- Online Civil Liberties
- Legal Research and Writing
Memberships
Board of Directors, Internet Fraud Watchdog
International Association for Cybercrime Prevention, Criminal Justice Network
Academic Co-Director, Cyberspace Law and Policy Community
China Information Technology Law Centre
Research supervision
I am currently supervising 4 PhD candidates: Rob Hamper, Bukola Obelajawala, Hadeel Al-Alosi, Stanley Shanapinda and Daniel Cater.
Grants
Cooperative Research Centre, CRC Data to Decision - Big Data and National Security, Key Researcher, 2014-2019
Report: Drowning in Codes of Conduct: An analysis of codes of conduct applying to online activity in Australia (2012) AauDA Funding Grant
Report: Orphan Works (2011) Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Funding Grants
Research Grant: RGC Project No: F-HK27/03T
France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme 2003-2004 (A competitive Hong Kong-wide research grant awarded by the UGC)
"Nationally Implemented Internet Firewall Technology and Policy - A Comparative Legal Analysis of its Effects on Freedom of Expression (China and France)" ""Les Incidences des technologies de pare-feus et leurs politiques nationals sur la liberté d'expression (la Chine et la France)"
Jean-Pierre Clavier (Faculty of Law, University of Nantes) and Alana Maurushat
UNSW Faculty Research Grant 2007 Scheme "An Australian initiative for legal and technical models for effective control of computer malware"
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
UNSW Faculty Research Grant 2008 Scheme "Exploring Legal Challenges in Virtual Worlds"
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
UNSW Faculty Research Grant 2009 Scheme "Internet Filtering"
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
Courses taught
- Cybercrime, Security and Digital Law Enforcement (LAWS8030)
- Surveillance Security and Democracy (LAWS8037)
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