Cyberlaw Fellowship

The InternetNZ Research Fellowship in Cyberlaw was a research position at Victoria University’s Law School designed to support the development of expertise in legal and policy issues relating to cyberlaw.

The Cyberlaw Fellows that served did so for one-year terms, during which time they undertook research, contributed to teaching classes at the Honours and Masters level, and presented outreach programmes for the wider public.

The Fellowship was a partnership agreement between InternetNZ and Victoria University.

Note: the Cyberlaw Fellowship is currently on hold.

Cyberlaw Fellows 

Four Cyberlaw Fellows have served:

• Internet regulation lawyer and University of Eotvos Lorand graduate Judit Bayer served as Cyberlaw Fellow in 2006. Her research topic was ‘Liability of Internet Service Providers for Third Party Content’.
• Former Senior Counsel for Internet Technology at the United States Department of Commerce Philip Greene served as Cyberlaw Fellow in 2007. His research topic was ‘Keyword Advertising and other Invisible uses of Third-party Trade Marks in Online Advertising’.
• US IP lawyer Cynthia LaBerge served as Cyberlaw Fellow in 2008. Her research topic was on ‘privacy law’, with a US focus on data-matching responses to heightened perceived threats to law and order/national security from terrorist activity.
• US lawyer and Colombia Law School graduate Jonathon Penney was the 2009 Cyberlaw Fellow. His research topic was ‘the Internet as a right’.