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Prof

Jeannie Paterson

Professor
Law
Consumer Protection Law
AI Ethics and Law
Robot Law
Fairness
Safety/Reliability
Strict & Fault Based Liability
Consent
Vulnerability
Consumer Credit and Banking Law
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Prof

Jeannie Paterson

 
Division
Law
 
Primary Interest
Consumer Protection Law; Consumer Credit Law; AI
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Projects

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Questioning the chatbot: scrutinising the performance of Telco customer service chatbots in terms of service, transparency, safety, privacy and security

2021 - 2022
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The Ethics and Practice of AI Localism at a Time of Covid-19 and Beyond

2021 - 2021
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Developing a Rational Law of Misleading Conduct

This project aims to investigate and promote the reform of the current laws of misleading conduct. Such laws are critical to maintaining a f..

2018 - 2021
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Legal and Ethical Review of an AI Tool

2020 - 2020
Completed
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Consumer Anonymity Measuring Project

2019 - 2020
Completed
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Powers of Attorney and Financial Abuse - Literature Review Approach to Market

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Thanks a bundle: making telecommunications services more accessible for people with decision-making impairments

2017 - 2019
Completed
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Remedies under the Australian Consumer Law and the Common Law: Evolution and Revolution

The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) and its precursor, the Trade Practices Act, have revolutionised the Australian consumer protection landsca..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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THRIVING COMMUNITIES: BETTER SUPPORT FOR CONSUMERS WITH DECISION-MAKING IMPAIRMENTS

2017 - 2018
Completed
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Comparative analysis of overseas consumer policy frameworks

2016 - 2016
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

6

Research Contracts

4

Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Good Proctor or "Big Brother"? Ethics of Online Exam Supervision Technologies.

Simon Coghlan, Tim Miller, Jeannie Paterson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Philos Technol

Online exam supervision technologies have recently generated significant controversy and concern. Their use is now booming due to ..

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Punishment and Private Law

Elise Bant, Wayne Courtney, James Goudkamp, Jeannie Paterson

Book  |  2021

The role of punishment in private law is controversial, and the dominance of the compensatory paradigm has tended to deflect atten..

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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Google: Deterring misleading conduct in digital privacy policies

Jeannie Marie Paterson, Elise Bant, Henry Cooney

Journal article  |  2021  |  Communications Law - Journal of Computer, Media and Telecommunications Law

Concerns over digital platforms’ collection and use of consumer data, and the impact of their data practices on personal privacy, ..

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Transparency to contest differential pricing

Jeannie Paterson, Tim Miller

Journal article  |  2021  |  Computers & Law

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Information Extraction from Legal Documents: A Study in the Context of Common Law Court Judgements

Meladel Mistica, Geordie Zhang, Hui Chia, Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, Rohit Gupta, Saket Khandelwal, Jeannie Paterson, Tim Baldwin, Daniel Beck

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the The 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

‘Common Law’ judicial systems follow the doctrine of precedent, which means the legal principles articulated in court judgements a..

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The Hidden Harms of Targeted Advertising by Algorithm and Interventions from the Consumer Protection Toolkit

JM Paterson, S Chang, M Cheong, C Culnane, S Dreyfus, D McKay

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice

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Systems of misconduct: Corporate culpability and statutory unconscionability

Elise Bant, Jeannie Paterson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Equity

This article considers the role of intentionality in establishing unconscionable conduct contrary to statute. Sections 21 and 22 o..

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Good Faith, Cooperation and a Reasonable Expectation of Disclosure in Contract Performance

Jeannie Paterson

Book Chapter  |  2020

This collection brings together a team of outstanding scholars from across the common law world to explore the treatment of mislea..

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Should Australia Introduce a Prohibition on Unfair Trading? Responding to Exploitative Business Systems in Person and Online

JM Paterson, E Bant

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF CONSUMER POLICY

Australian consumer protection law contains broad and flexible prohibitions on misleading and unconscionable conduct in trade or c..

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Contract and the Challenge of Consumer Protection Legislation

Jeannie Paterson, Elise Bant

Book Chapter  |  2020

This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in light of the impact that statutes have..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law
Commercial Law
Private Law and Civil Obligations
Other Law and Legal Studies
Law in Context
Community Services
International and Comparative Law
Applied Economics
Health Services and Systems
Legal Systems

News

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Surveillance: What is it good for?

Gabby Bush, Simon Coghlan, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Tim Miller

Youth, online news and entertainment site Pedestrian recently published an anonymous article about a boss requiring all staff working remote..

October 28, 2021
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TikTok captures your face

Niels Wouters, Jeannie Marie Paterson

With more than one billion users since 2017, TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social networks. Its audience base is rapidly expanding be..

July 25, 2021
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Charging dead clients is dishonest. Really? Who knew

Elise Bant, Jeannie Marie Paterson

The news that Australia’s financial services regulator will take five AMP group companies to court over them charging life insurance and adv..

June 1, 2021
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Australia vs Facebook: Regulating the market of attention

Mariam Nadeem, Gabby Bush, Dana McKay, Jeannie Marie Paterson

Facebook has blocked the sharing of all news content in Australia, not far behind Google’s threat of exit just last month. But what’s prompt..

February 18, 2021
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Part 2: Things we know at the end of 2020

Clayton Chin, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Anna Meredith, Andrew May

While the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated our lives for almost a year - there’s also been the summer bushfires, the US election, Black Lives..

December 28, 2020
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Rio Tinto and the anatomy of corporate culpability

Elise Bant, Jeannie Marie Paterson

Members of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama people (PKKP), the general public and shareholders of Rio Tinto have all expressed grief and outrage at t..

September 11, 2020
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The privacy paradox: why we let ourselves be monitored

Tim Miller, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Gabby Bush, Adam Lodders

On a normal day for many of us, Alexa, Cortana, Siri or our digital assistant of choice, will helpfully tell us what the weather is while we..

May 12, 2020
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Are our new virtual workplaces equitable?

Gabby Bush, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Tim Miller, Adam Lodders

For many Australians it has now been several weeks since we started working from home. Gone is the novelty of Zoom backgrounds and Housepart..

April 26, 2020
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Coming clean on hand sanitisers

Alex Jane, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Elise Bant, Marco Rizzi

The spread of COVID-19 has resulted in huge demand for personal hygiene items. Widespread hoarding and panic buying have resulted in empty s..

April 21, 2020
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The cost to freedom in the war against COVID-19

Jeannie Marie Paterson, Tim Miller

Around the world governments are fighting the COVID-19 outbreak with a variety of social control measures aimed at minimising contact betwee..

April 5, 2020
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

FAAL - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

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Credentials

Positions

Professor

Law

Education

Doctorate in Law

Monash University

Bachelor of Arts

Australian National University

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)

Australian National University

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