Rate My Professor Kimberlee Weatherall

Professor Weatherall specializes in intellectual property law and the relationship between law and technology, with a focus on artificial intelligence regulation, data governance, privacy law, and automated decision-making. She teaches courses on Law and Technology and Intellectual Property. As a Chief Investigator at the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, she collaborates across disciplines on AI ethics, legality, and data practices. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for AI Trust and Governance. Her policy contributions include an appointment to Australia's Advisory Council on Intellectual Property in 2013. She serves as co-editor of the Sydney Law Review, board member of the Australian Digital Alliance, Fellow of the Gradient Institute, and research affiliate with the Humanising Machine Intelligence group at the Australian National University. Key publications include 'Beyond Napster: using antitrust law to advance and enhance online music distribution' with M. Fagin and F. Pasquale (2002), 'Exporting Controversy? Reactions to the Copyright Provisions of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Lessons for US Trade Policy' with R. Burrell (2008), ''Politics, Compromise, Text and the Failures of the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement'' (Sydney Law Review, 2011), 'Patent enforcement: a review of the literature' with E. Webster (2014), and 'ACTA as a new kind of international IP lawmaking' (2010). These works address critical issues in IP policy, international trade, and technology regulation.