Rate My Professor Kyle Bowyer

Bowyer's research spans contract law, employment law, technology law, student workload in higher education, consumer protection, and human rights issues in labor. Key publications include his contribution to the Australian Law Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2010, cited 109 times), 'A model of student workload' in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (2012, cited 97 times), 'Robot Rights: at What Point Should an Intelligent Machine Be Considered a Person?' in The Conversation (2017, cited 12 times), 'The Collapse of Dick Smith and the Problem of Gift Cards: Issues and Alternatives for Consumer Protection' in the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law (2018), 'The Exclusion of 457 Visa Workers from the Protection of the Fair Entitlements Guarantee: Human Rights Issues' (2016), 'Improved security of payment legislation and project bank accounts: a joint solution to payment and insolvency issues in the construction industry' in the University of Tasmania Law Review (2018), and 'The Effect of the Decision in McCracken v Melbourne Storm Rugby League Football Club on Professional Sport in Western Australia' in The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government (2006). Recent works include 'Future Thinking: Enhancing Tourism Through Open-Source Intelligence' (2024). His scholarship has accumulated 66 citations and over 2,900 reads on ResearchGate. Bowyer received the 2006 Curtin University Student Guild Excellence in Teaching Award as winner for the Faculty of Business. Previously associated with the School of Business Law and Taxation, his work informs policy on education management and legal reforms.