Kimberlee Weatherall

Kimberlee Weatherall is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School. She holds a BA LLB (Hons) from the University of Sydney, a BCL (Hons) from the University of Oxford, and an LLM from Yale University. Her academic career includes serving as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Melbourne from 2003 to 2006 and as a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Queensland from 2007 to 2011. She joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2012 as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2017. Prior to academia, she worked as a lawyer at the firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney.

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.

Professional Email: kimberlee.weatherall@sydney.edu.au