Moira Paterson

Personal profile

Biography

Professor Moira Paterson teaches and researches in field of information law, with a key focus on freedom of information, privacy and data protection, health records and public records law.

She is the author of Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia: Government and Information Access in the Modern State (LexisNexis, 2005) and Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia: Information Access 2.0 (LexisNexis, 2015)and is a co-editor of Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Comparative Perspectives, Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Comparative Perspectives (CUP, 2014). She has also published numerous book chapters, journal article, principally on freedom of information and privacy-related topics.

Moira has been a Chief Investigator on 6 research projects, including three projects funded by the Australian Research Council, and has also completed several research consultancies and contracts for a variety of government and private sector organisations.

She has been a member of of the Victorian Firearms Appeals Committee since 2007 and was the FOI Editor of the Australian Administrative Law Service from1995 to 2018. She has also served as a member of the former Privacy Advisory Committee to the Australian Information Commissioner, as a member of Advisory Committees to the ALRC (in respect of its Privacy Act 1988 and Commonwealth secrecy laws references) and to the VLRC (in respect of its privacy in public places reference), and as an Honorary Consultant to the Australian Press Council (in relation to its High Court amicus curiae brief in McKinnon v Commonwealth 2006).

Supervision interests

Freedom of Information

Privacy

Data Protection

Health Records Law

Monash teaching commitment

LAW5000 Australian Legal Reasoning and Methods SEM1/T1

LAW1111 Foundations of Law SEM 1

LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information SEM 2

Research area keywords

Criminal Records Checks, Spent Convictions
Freedom of Information
Privacy
Health Records
Data Protection
Surveillance
Big Data
Public records

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Projects

3 Active
11 Finished

Geographical Indications for Wine in Australia’s Free Trade Agreements

Davison, M., Paterson, M., Spagnolo, L., Henckels, C. & Bonadio, E.

6/04/20 → 5/04/22

Project: Research

Professional Workshop on Young People’s Privacy

Witzleb, N. & Paterson, M.

2/09/19 → 31/12/20

Project: Research

iappANZ Prize for LAW5317 Principles of Provacy and Freedom of Information(the Prize)

Witzleb, N. & Paterson, M.

1/06/19 → 1/06/24

Project: Research

New Technologies Project

O'Sullivan, M., Paterson, M., Witzleb, N. & Ng, Y.

Attorney-General's Department (Comm)

1/04/19 → 28/06/19

Project: Research

Young people's privacy in an online world

Witzleb, N., Paterson, M., Birnhack, M. & Kalev, S.

1/12/18 → 31/12/19

Project: Research

Research Output

30 Article
11 Chapter (Book)
3 Commissioned Report
2 Book
7 More

Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law: Democracy and Privacy in the age of Micro-Targeting

Witzleb, N. (ed.), Paterson, M. (ed.) & Richardson, J. (ed.), 2020, 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge. 258 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review

Open government and privacy in an era of big data analytics

Paterson, M., 2020, Free Speech, Privacy and Media: Comparative Perspectives. Weaver, R. L., Cole, M. D., Friedland, S. I., Fairgrieve, D., Koltay, A. & Raynouard, A. (eds.). 1st ed. Durham NC USA: Carolina Academic Press, p. 165-176 12 p. (Global Paper Series; vol. XI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review