Cyberlaw Fellowship

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

Cyberlaw Fellows serve one-year terms, during which time they undertake research; contribute to teaching classes at the Honours and Masters level; and present outreach programmes for the wider public via seminars, etc.

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

Cyberlaw Fellows 

Four Cyberlaw Fellows have served to-date:

• 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’.