Zofia Bednarz is the co-editor of this collection. She is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School and an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making and Society. Zofia has an established track record in corporate law, financial services law, and the impact of new technologies on consumer protection regimes. She has published widely on these topics in leading journals and edited collections in both English and Spanish. She is the author of Breach of Information Duties in the B2C E-Commerce: A Comparative Perspective (Marcial Pons, 2019) and co-author of International Encyclopaedia of Commercial and Economic Law – Spain (Wolters Kluwer International, 1st ed. 2018, 2nd ed. 2022). She has also co-edited Derecho de Sociedades: Los Derechos del Socio (Company Law: Company Members’ Rights) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020).

José-Miguel Bello y Villarino is a Research Fellow at the Law School of the University of Sydney and the Institutions programme of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). He is a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave) and previously worked in different capacities for the European Union. In 2021 he was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at the Harvard Law School. His current research focuses on regulatory approaches to ADM and AI, especially on how to deal with risks derived from the operation of AI systems from a comparative perspective.

Terry Carney AO is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School, where he served as Director of Research and Head of Department, and a visiting research professor at the University of Technology Sydney. The author of 11 books/monographs and over 250 academic papers, he is currently an associate investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). He is an officer of the Order of Australia, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, former president (2005–2007) of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and has chaired commonwealth bodies such as the National Advisory Council on Social Welfare and the Board of the Institute of Family Studies, along with various State enquiries into child welfare, adult guardianship, and health law.

Cary Coglianese is Edward B. Shils Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Director of Penn Program on Regulation. He specializes in the study of administrative law and regulatory processes, with an emphasis on technology and business–government relations in policy-making. The author of more than 200 articles, book chapters, and essays on administrative law and regulatory policy, Coglianese’s recent book projects have included: Achieving Regulatory Excellence; Does Regulation Kill Jobs?; Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation; Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy; and Regulation and Regulatory Processes. In addition to his work on the use of artificial intelligence by government agencies, he has written on climate change policy, public participation and transparency in federal rulemaking, voluntary environmental programs, and the role of waivers and exemptions in regulatory law. Prior to joining the Penn faculty, he spent a dozen years on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he founded and chaired the school’s Regulatory Policy Program and was an affiliated scholar at the Harvard Law School. A senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), a federal agency that develops recommendations for improving the administrative aspects of government, Coglianese served for years as the chair of ACUS’s Rulemaking Committee. He has also served as the chair and co-chair of several committees of the American Bar Association’s section on administrative law as well as a member of the section’s governing Council.

Tatiana Cutts is Associate Professor and researcher at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne Law School. Her research spans private law and legal theory, often as these topics intersect with issues of technological innovation. Tatiana’s recent monograph, Artificial Justice (OUP, 2023), makes the case for looking beyond equality when we assess the justice of predictive algorithms. She joined Melbourne Law School from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020, and received her D.Phil, BCL, and LLB from the University of Oxford. Tatiana has published in leading legal academic journals, including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law Quarterly Review, and Modern Law Review.

Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi is an adjunct researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and intercultural policy consultant at the Barcelona City Council. She specialises in the analysis of racism, state surveillance, and Islamophobia. Her latest book published in 2019 La radicalización del racism. Islamofobia de estado y prevención antiterrorista (The Radicalisation of Racism: State Islamophobia and Terrorism Prevention) dissects the racist, capitalist, and colonial ideology underpinning Spain’s counterterrorism policies.

Doron Goldbarsht, LLB, LLM (HUJI), PhD (UNSW), is the Director of the Financial Integrity Hub (FIH) and Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, where he teaches banking and financial crime. He is an authority on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regulations, with expertise in the related fields of compliance and financial innovation. His recent books Financial Crime and the Law: Identifying and Mitigating Risks (Springer 2023, co-edited), Financial Crime, Law and Governance: Navigating Challenges in Diverse Contexts (Springer 2023, co-edited), Financial Technology and the Law: Combating Financial Crime (Springer, 2022, co-edited with Louis de Koker), and Global Counter-Terrorist Financing and Soft Law: Multi-Layered Approaches (Edward Elgar, 2020), as well as journal and chapter publications, focus on international AML/CTF standards and the mechanisms for their effective implementation and compliance at the national level.

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Currently, she is an academic visitor at the University of Cambridge. In the academic year 2021–2022 she was Sir Roy Goode Scholar at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). Teresa is the delegate of Spain at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on WG VI on secured transactions and WG IV on E-commerce (project on AI and automation in international trade and data transactions). She is an expert at UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT on digital economy projects and arbitrator at the Madrid Court of Arbitration and the Spanish Court of Arbitration. Teresa is a member of the European Commission Expert Groups: on Liability and New Technologies, the Observatory on Online Platform Economy, and on B2B Data Sharing and Cloud Computing. She is a member of the European Law Institute (ELI) Executive Committee and Council, the author of the ELI Guiding Principles on ADM in Europe, 2022, and co-reporter of the ELI Project on Algorithmic Contracts. She is a member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee within the Spanish Bar Association, and of the Advisory Committee to Open Internet Governance Institute. Her past academic appointments include James J. Coleman Sr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford University, Marie Curie Fellow at Centre of European Law and Politics of University of Bremen (Germany), and Chair of Excellence at Oxford University.

Aitor Jiménez is a sociologist, lawyer, and activist. He is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at the University of Melbourne in the areas of Data Civics, Rights and Ownership for Automated Decision-Making. Previously, Aitor worked as a policy and legal analyst for progressive causes in Latin America and Europe, and as a human rights lawyer has defended cases of leftist activists and artists before the Spanish National Court. Aitor often writes for the media and collaborates with a range of civil society organisations interested in the development of forward-thinking alternatives for our digital futures. Aitor currently provides advice to progressive political parties in Spain on the regulation of fake news, public opinion, and the digital public sphere.

Ching-Fu Lin is Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). Professor Lin received his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School with the honour of John Gallup Laylin Memorial Prize and Yong K. Kim Memorial Prize. He also holds a double degree in law (LL.B.) and chemical engineering (B.S.) from National Taiwan University. Professor Lin has served as visiting researcher/fellow at the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at UNSW Sydney, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. His legal scholarship has appeared in many journals and edited volumes, including European Journal of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Harvard International Law Journal, Virginia Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Asian Law.

Henrietta Lyons is a PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. She is working on a thesis titled ‘Developing Human-Centred Explanations for Decisions Made by Artificial Intelligence’. Henrietta received her BCom and LLB from the University of Adelaide. She has co-authored a number of papers on fair and responsible AI, focusing on explainability and contestability of AI systems.

Paul Miller was appointed Ombudsman of New South Wales (NSW) on 1 May 2021, after holding a range of senior roles in the NSW public service, including General Counsel and Deputy Secretary (Legal and Cabinet) of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, and Deputy Secretary (Policy and Strategy) of the Department of Justice. In 2016, he was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal for outstanding public service through the provision of legal advice and freedom of information reforms.

Tim Miller is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing Science at the University of Queensland. Tim’s work lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, interaction design, and cognitive science and psychology. His primary area of expertise is in artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on human–AI interaction and collaboration; explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI); decision-making in complex, multi-agent environments; and reasoning about action and knowledge. Tim has extensive experience developing novel and innovative solution with industry and defence collaborators.

Jeannie Marie Paterson is Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School and founding Co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Jeannie researches in the fields of consumer protection, banking, and consumer credit law, and the regulation of emerging digital technologies. Jeannie’s particular research interests are in understanding digital vulnerability and regulatory interventions that recognise the information and power asymmetries in B2C relationships. She has published widely on these research topics in leading journals and edited collections.

Linda Przhedetsky is a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research looks at how regulatory interventions can be used to protect consumers in contexts where automated decision-making tools are used to facilitate or limit access to essential services. Her PhD focuses on the use of tenant selection technologies in the private rental sector. Prior to pursuing academia, she worked across government, academia, civil society, and non-profit organisations. Linda is a research fellow at the Gradient Institute, a board member of the NSW Tenants’ Union, and has previously served as an executive director of the Consumers’ Federation of Australia. She is currently Associate Professor of Strategic AI at the Human Technology Institute, at the University of Technology Sydney.

Monika Zalnieriute is a senior lecturer (associate professor) the University of New South Wales. She is also a senior fellow at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. Her research on law and technology has been drawn upon by scholars and international organizations such as the Council of Europe, World Bank, the European Parliament and World Health Organisation. Monika’s work has been published widely, including in Modern Law Review, Harvard Journal of International Law, Cambridge Law Journal, and American Journal of International Law, translated into Mandarin, Russian and German, and also appeared in international media outlets, such as BBC and The Guardian. She is the co-editor of Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State (CUP, 2024).