Rate My Professor Michael Dizon

Dr. Michael Dizon is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Research and Innovation at Curtin Law School, Curtin University. His principal area of research is law and information and communications technology (ICT). Dizon earned his PhD in Law from Tilburg University in 2016, LLM in Innovation, Technology and the Law from the University of Edinburgh in 2009, LLB from the College of Law at the University of the Philippines in 2002, and BA major in Literature from Ateneo de Manila University in 1997. He also serves as Director of Graduate Research for Curtin Law School.

Dizon's academic career includes prior roles as Senior Lecturer from 2020 to 2023 and Lecturer from 2016 to 2020 at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato. Earlier appointments encompass PhD Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society from 2012 to 2016, Research Assistant at the SCRIPT Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh from 2009 to 2010, and Professorial Lecturer at the College of Law, University of the Philippines from 2004 to 2007. In legal practice, he worked as Professional Support Lawyer at Baker McKenzie from 2006 to 2012, Corporate Lawyer at NGL Pacific Limited from 2004 to 2006, and Associate Attorney at SyCip, Salazar, Hernandez & Gatmaitan from 2002 to 2004. His research explores socio-legal dimensions of technology, including hacking, encryption, free and open source software, and participatory democracy through ICT. Key publications include the book A socio-legal study of hacking: breaking and remaking law and technology (Routledge, 2017); Laws of encryption: An emerging legal framework, co-authored with P.J. Upson (Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 43, 2021); Socio-legal study of technology: A norms and values approach to hacking and encryption law and policy (Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 52, 2024); Participatory Democracy and Information and Communications Technology: A Legal Pluralist Perspective (European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 1, no. 3, 2010); and Free and open source software communities, democracy and ICT law and policy (International Journal of Law and Information Technology, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009).