About this Series

This Cambridge Elements series provides a home for fresh arguments about data rights and wrongs along with legal, ethical and other responses. We encourage new ways of thinking about data as enmeshed within complex social, institutional and technical relations. We are particularly interested in work addressing the transformations inherent in digitisation, automation, the development of artificial intelligence, and in related and comparable sociotechnical change. We are also interested in comparative studies, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies, and contributions that cross temporal and geographical boundaries. The series has an interdisciplinary and international editorial team, with expertise across law, information studies, communication, the humanities and social sciences. The series has three thematic clusters: 1) reviewing the fundamentals; 2) building blocks recalibrated; 3) novel and creative approaches.

Areas of interest

• new ways of identifying, conceptualising, characterising and interpreting data rights and data wrongs
• discussions of the impacts of digitisation, automation, artificial intelligence and other sociotechnical changes in the development of data rights and wrongs
• inquiries into new and emerging laws, ethical and other regulatory frameworks underpinning, expressing and giving effect to data rights and wrongs 
• new formulations and conceptualisations of good data practices, and the legal, ethical and other frameworks needed to achieve these
• studies which draw upon historical, social cultural, political and institutional lenses and perspectives

Core Editors

Megan Richardson

Rachelle Bosua

Damian Clifford

Jake Goldenfein

Jeannie Paterson

Julian Thomas

About the Core Editors  

Megan Richardson is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. Her research covers privacy and data rights, law reform and legal theory. Her books include The Right to Privacy: Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea (2017); Research Handbook on Intellectual Property in Media and Entertainment Law (ed with Sam Ricketson, 2017); Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law (2020); and The Right to Privacy 1914-1948: The Lost Years (2023).

Rachelle Bosua is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University and an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Open University Netherlands. Her research considers the role and use of data in digital contexts, including data privacy and ethics, design and adoption of digital artefacts in remote and platform-based work, knowledge leakage and digital innovation. She is a co-author of Knowledge Management in Organizations: A Critical Introduction (with Donald Hislop and Remko Helms, 4th ed, 2018).

Damian Clifford is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University and an associate researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). Previously a FWO Aspirant Fellow at KU Leuven’s Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), his research focuses on privacy, data protection and technology regulation, and he has published across these fields. His recent books are Data Rights and Private Law (ed with Jeannie Marie Paterson and Kwan Ho Lau, 2023) and Data Protection Law and Emotions (2024).

Jake Goldenfein is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. Previously a researcher at Cornell Tech, Cornell University and New York Law School, his work spans media and communications history and theory, communications policy, privacy and media law. Current areas of focus are mechanism design, algorithmic transparency, and decision-making accountability. His book Monitoring Laws: Profiling and Identity in the World State was published in 2020.

Jeannie Marie Paterson is Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne and a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School. Her research focuses on themes of support for vulnerable consumers; the regulation of new technologies in consumer and financial markets; and regulatory design for protecting consumer rights and promoting safe, fair and accountable technologies. Her recent books include Misleading Silence (ed with Elise Bant, 2020); and Data Rights and Private Law (ed with Damian Clifford and Kwan Ho Lau, 2023).

Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne. He has written widely about digital inclusion, automation and other topics relating to the pasts and futures of new communications and computing technologies. His books include The Informal Media Economy (2015); Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities (2016); and Wi-Fi (with Ellie Rennie and Rowan Wilken, 2021).

Other Editors

Mark Andrejevic, Professor, Communications & Media Studies, Monash Data Futures Institute

Sara Bannerman, Professor, McMaster University, and Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy & Governance

Claes Granmar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University

Sonia Katyal, Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Research, Co-Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Roger J Traynor Diistinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley

Andrew Kenyon, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne

Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School, New York

Trisha Ray, Associate Director and Resident Fellow, GeoTech Center, Atlantic Council

Peggy Valcke, Professor of Law & Technology and Vice-Dean of Research, Faculty of Law & Criminology, KU Leuven

Normann Witzleb, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Contact the Editors

If you would like more information about this series or you are interested in writing an Element, please email Professor Richardson at m.richardson@unimelb.edu.au.

We are grateful to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the University of Melbourne’s Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) for their support for this series.