Professor Jeannie Paterson

Overview

Jeannie Marie Paterson is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Jeannie’s teaching and research focuses on consumer and data protection law in the context of emerging digital technologies, including issues of fairness, privacy, transparency, security and existential risk in the emergence of AI.

Her current projects centre on digital mental health, generative AI in legal decision-making, and legal responses to deep fake fraud, under the theme of misleading AI.

Jeannie has a track record of consultation and collaboration with government, industry, regulators and community legal centres, as well as being a regular media commentator. She has consulted on legal and regulatory reform to ASEAN, the Banking and Financial Services Royal Commissions, the Productivity Commission, the Australian Law Reform Commission, Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department, Commonwealth Treasury, and ASIC.

With Professor Andrew Robertson, Jeannie is the author of the text book Principles of Contract Law, along with articles and books on consumer protection law and consumer credit law.

Jeannie is an affiliate researcher with the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Jeannie is currently a member of the Commonwealth Government’s temporary AI expert group.

Other School and University Responsibilities

• Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics

Memberships and Affiliations

• Fellow – Australian Academy of Law
• Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society – Affiliate Researcher
• Consumer Policy Research Centre – Expert Advisory Panel
• Journal (Cambridge) - Area Lead Editor for Data Ethics and Equity
• Journal for Law, Technology and Humans- Academic Editor