Tatiana Cutts

Professor Tatiana Dancy is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She joined the school in 2020 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was an Assistant Professor in Law. Dancy received her D.Phil, BCL, and LLB from the University of Oxford. Her research spans law and technology, legal theory, and private law. She has conducted extensive public-facing work on blockchain technology and smart contracts, including submissions to parliamentary inquiries in the UK and Australia. Dancy welcomes PhD supervision and mentorship enquiries from junior scholars, particularly from women, Black, and First Nations scholars in private law and law and technology.

Dancy is the author of Artificial Justice (Oxford University Press, 2023), the first monograph on the private law of artificial intelligence, which urges consideration of algorithmic fairness issues beyond inequality. Key publications include “Unjust Enrichment: What We Owe to Each Other” (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 114–141; “Dummy Asset Tracing” (2019) 135 Law Quarterly Review 140–165; “Modern Money Had and Received” (2018) 38 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1–25; and “Tracing, Value and Transactions” (2016) 79 Modern Law Review 381–405, recipient of the Modern Law Review Wedderburn Prize. She convenes Law and Automation (JD elective), AI and Justice (Melbourne Law Masters), Cryptoassets in Global Context (MLM), and Digital Law and Technological Innovation (MLM). As Director (JD) and Director of Studies for Digital Law and Technological Innovation (MLM), she contributes to curriculum leadership. Public roles include Inner Temple Academic Fellow; Advisory Panel member, Law Commission of England & Wales (Digital Assets); Financial Markets Law Committee member; CAIDE researcher; LSE Law, Technology and Society affiliate; and Golden Gate University Blockchain Law Center for Social Good affiliate. Her scholarship influences academic discourse on digital assets regulation and AI governance.

Professional Email: tatiana.dancy@unimelb.edu.au