NEW ZEALAND SYMPOSIUM ON LAW AND TECHNOLOGY: EDUCATION, PRACTICE AND POLICY 2021 - TELENZ
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New Zealand Symposium on
Law and Technology:
Education, Practice and Policy 2021
NZ Law Foundation-funded TeLENZ Initiative
(TeLENZ: Technology in Legal Education for NZ)
Level 1 Foyer 119-G20
The ClockTower East Wing
University of Auckland
22 Princes Street, Auckland Central
Thursday 1 July 2021
Provisional Programme as at 23 June 2021
Programme
08.30 Registration opens
08.40 Mihi and Welcome from Geremy Hema
08.50 Welcome and Introduction from TeLENZ Lead, Wayne Rumbles
09.00 Welcome from University of Auckland Law Dean, Pene Mathew
09.10 Opening Keynote: NZ Law Foundation Chair, Andrew Butler
09.25 Session I: Law & Technology – Implications and Issues 1
Chair: John Hopkins
Presenters:
• Alex Sims - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs): The State of Play
• Michael Dizon - The Critical Role of Technical and Social Principles and Values in
Encryption Regulation
• Bridgette Toy-Cronin - “Tighten, Cull and Focus”: An Experiment Examining Lay
and Lawyer Claims in a Mock Online Court
Q&A session
10.25 Morning Refreshment Break
10.45 Session II: Law & Technology – Implications and Issues 2
Chair: Yvette Tinsley
Presenters:
• Carrie Leonetti - Life in the Panopticon: The Disparate Impact of CCTV and
Facial-Recognition Surveillance in Urban Spaces
• Rob Batty - AI and Trade Mark Infringement
• Matt Bartlett - Overcoming Algorithmic Aversion in Legal Technology
Q&A session
11.45 Session III: Law & Technology – Implications and Issues 3
Chair: Marcus Roberts
Presenters:
• Piers Gooding - Automating Mental Health: New Terrains of Technology, Law and
Regulation
• Andrew Ecclestone - Official Information Act and Open Government in the Digital
Age
• John Hopkins - Rights (and Wrongs) of Data and Disasters
Q&A session
12.45 Lunch13.35 Session IV: Presentation from NZLF Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging
Technologies; Use of Technology in Teaching
Chair: Vernon Rive
• Colin Gavaghan - NZLF Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies
• Marcus Roberts - Teaching law during a pandemic: What to keep and what to
discard?
• Ana Lenard - Lessons from teaching and learning online during Covid-19: how
existing technologies can enhance our in-person teaching
Q&A session
14.35 Session V: Under/Postgraduate Research
Chair: Rob Batty
• TeLENZ’s Summer RAs: Christina Hatton, Peter Marshall
• Rachel Tan - Restricting access: a strategy for online hate speech regulation
Q&A session
15.20 Afternoon Refreshment Break
15.40 Session VI: Panel Discussion – Law and Practice in the Digital Age
Presenter & Chair: Andrew King
Panellists
• Sara Stratton
• Matt Farrington
• Maria Sopoaga
• Ben Winslade
Q&A session
17.00 Session VII: High Notes - Adding it all up and Thinking Ahead
Chair: Mark Henaghan
Panellists
• Alex Sims
• Tom Maasland
• Andrew Butler
Chair leads with comments and facilitates Q&A among panellists
General Q&A session
17.55 Closing words: Wayne Rumbles
18.05 Symposium concludes followed by networking and refreshments
19.30 EndsGuest Speakers
Associate Professor Wayne Wayne graduated BA/LLB in 1997 with majors in Law, History and English Literature.
Rumbles He completed LLM (Distinction) from the University of Waikato in 1998. He spent three
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University years working in community law and worked for Te Matahauariki Research Institute
of Waikato for 10 years on the Laws and Institutions for Aotearoa/New Zealand project. Wayne
TeLENZ Program Lead has been an academic at Te Piringa - Faculty of Law for 20 years, and was Dean of
wayne.rumbles@waikato.ac.nz Law from 2015 - 2020. Wayne teaches and researches in the areas of Cyber Law,
Law and New Technologies, Criminal Law (with a focus on Cyber Crime), and teaches
in New Zealand’s first Masters in Cyber-Security taught jointly by the Faculties of Law
and Computer Science. For TeLENZ, he is assisted by Fleur Mullen and Richman Wee.
Professor Pene Mathew Professor Penelope (Pene) Mathew joined the Auckland Law School as Dean in
Auckland Law School, University of March 2019. Specialising in international law and politics, she holds degrees from the
Auckland University of Melbourne and Columbia Law School. Pene is an expert on international
Dean refugee law, has worked as a human rights lawyer, and published extensively in
p.mathew@auckland.ac.nz this field. She has held academic roles at the University of Melbourne, the Australian
National University, Michigan Law School, and Griffith University where she also
served as Dean and Head of Griffith Law School. She served as legal and policy
advisor to the ACT’s Human Rights Commission (HRC), leading the work on an audit
of the territory’s remand centres. In 2008, the ACT government awarded her an
International Women’s Day Award for outstanding contributions to human rights and
social justice. She has worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service, and as a consultant to
the Australian HRC and for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.
Dr Andrew Butler Andrew Butler is a seasoned litigator, with extensive appellate, trial and ADR
Thorndon Chambers experience. He is an acknowledged expert in commercial, trusts and public law. Much
andrew.butler@chambers.co.nz of his work has an international dimension. Andrew co-authored two books with Sir
Geoffrey Palmer QC proposing that New Zealand adopt a written constitution. He is the
editor of the Human Rights Reports of New Zealand (HRNZ) published by Brooker's, as
well as New Zealand correspondent for Butterworths Human Rights Cases (BHRC).
Andrew is the Chair of the New Zealand Law Foundation, and a member of the NZ Law
Society Human Rights and Privacy Committee.
Professor John Hopkins Dr. Hopkins is a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury Law School. He is
School of Law, University of a comparative public lawyer who specialises in disaster law, multi-level governance,
Canterbury administrative justice and anti-corruption. He is the current Director of the LEAD
w.j.hopkins@canterbury.ac.nz Institute for Law Emergencies and Disasters based at UC and chairs the International
Disaster and Emergency Law Network (IDEAL.net). He is a Disciplinary Theme leader
of QuakeCoRE and part of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science
Challenge. He has long had an interest in the impact of information technology
upon the legal system and most recently has led projects examining the role of such
technologies in disasters.
Associate Professor Alex Sims Alex Sims is an Associate Professor at the Department of Commercial Law, University
Department of Commercial Law, of Auckland. Alex’s main area of research is blockchain technology, principally
University of Auckland Business Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and NFTs. Her legacy research
School includes intellectual property law (primarily copyright) and consumer law. She is a
a.sims@auckland.ac.nz co-author of the report ‘Regulating Cryptocurrencies in New Zealand’ (funded by the
Law Foundation) and ‘E-Commerce and the Law’ (2nd ed, Thomson Reuters, 2020).
She is a Research Associate of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, and is on
the Executive Committee of Blockchain NZ and the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy
Advisory Board (BEPAB).
Dr Michael Dizon Michael Dizon, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University Waikato. His principal area of research is law and ICT (information and communications
of Waikato technology). More broadly, his research revolves around normative pluralism and the
michael.dizon@waikato.ac.nz information society, and involves the socio-legal study of technology, creativity and
innovation. He has conducted and published research on law and technology topics
such as encryption, hacking and cybercrime. In addition, he teaches courses on cyber
law, cybersecurity, and law and information technology.Dr Bridgette Toy-Cronin Dr Bridgette Toy-Cronin is a Director and Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago,
Faculty of Law, University of Otago Faculty of Law. She completed an LLB(Hons)/BA at the University of Auckland, an LLM
bridgette.toy-cronin@otago.ac.nz from Harvard University, and PhD at the University of Otago. Her research is focused
on improving access to the civil justice system, particularly the areas of that system
that people are most likely to come into contact with, and on people who face the most
significant barriers. Her research has an empirical focus, investigating access to justice,
the legal profession, judging, dispute resolution, and civil procedure.
Professor Yvette Tinsley Professor Yvette Tinsley (LLB(Hons), PhD) is a criminal justice researcher whose
Faculty of Law, Victoria University of teaching and research interests lie in the fields of sexual violence; jury decision-
Wellington making; penal policy; and law and science, particularly as it relates to emerging
yvette.tinsley@vuw.ac.nz technologies and behavioural sciences. She has introduced a course for Honours and
postgraduate students on the opportunities and challenges emerging technologies
offer for criminal justice policy, procedure, and legal regulation. Yvette has a special
interest in empirical research focused on legal policy reform, especially in improving
the experience for participants in the criminal process. She has published extensively
in NZ and internationally. Her work has influenced legislative and policy reform,
most notably in the areas of sexual violence and jury decision-making. Her current
research includes judicial communication and direction to jurors, utilising technology
in jury trials; media intrusion following crime and disasters, and emotional labour in
the criminal courts.
Associate Professor Carrie Carrie Leonetti is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland School of Law
Leonetti and an Affiliated Member of the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy at the University
Auckland Law School, University of of Oregon. Her research focuses on comparative criminal procedure, forensic science,
Auckland and high-tech surveillance. She has published articles on the role of law schools in the
carrie.leonetti@auckland.ac.nz wake of disruptive technological change, privacy rights of the unhoused in homeless
encampments, the constitutionality of cell-site simulators, suspicionless dragnet
investigations, high-tech bulk surveillance, and data mining, the use of immersive
virtual environments in jury trials, the application of the curtilage doctrine to urban
areas, and virtual lineups.
Rob Batty Rob Batty is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. He
Auckland Law School, University of teaches intellectual property law at an undergraduate and postgraduate level. Rob’s
Auckland main research interest is in the area of trade mark law. He has published widely in
r.batty@auckland.ac.nz this area. Rob’s published articles about trade mark law have been cited in leading
texts on trade mark law in New Zealand and Australia, by the New Zealand Supreme
Court, the Singapore Court of Appeal, the New Zealand High Court and the New
Zealand Intellectual Property Office.
Matt Bartlett Matt Bartlett is a Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow with the Faculty of Law at
Auckland Law School, University of the University of Auckland. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New
Auckland Zealand and practised as a commercial lawyer at a national law firm before joining
Research Fellow the University of Auckland. Matt's research interests encompass the wide range of
matt.bartlett@auckland.ac.nz legal issues raised by emerging technologies, particularly AI and blockchain. Matt is
a representative of the AI Forum and works closely with the New Zealand Centre for
ICT Law.
Dr Piers Gooding Dr Piers Gooding is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University
University of Melbourne Law School, of Melbourne Law School. His work focuses on the law and politics of disability and
Melbourne Social Equity Institute mental health, with a focus on digital technologies in care services. He is the author of
p.gooding@unimelb.edu.au A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy (2017) with Cambridge University Press
and is an associate editor of the International Journal for Mental Health and Capacity
Law. Dr Gooding has collaborated with the UN Special Rapporteur for the Rights of
People with Disabilities, the Council of Europe Bioethics Committee, and the World
Psychiatric Association.
Andrew Ecclestone Andrew Ecclestone is a Senior Associate at the Institute for Governance and Policy
Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. He has been awarded a grant by the NZ Law
Studies, Victoria University of Foundation to support his research into systemic issues relating to open government
Wellington in New Zealand and to develop findings or recommendations for a better functioning
andrew@ecclestone.net system. He is particularly interested in how the discourse about access to government
information has focused on accountability and downplayed the participation purpose
of the Official Information Act. He is also interested in how technology impacts on
open government to enable participation, accountability, retrieval and publication of
information, and the creation and maintenance of records of public authorities’ work.
The website for his research is at: www.opengovt.nzAssociate Professor Vernon Rive Vernon Rive joined the AUT Law School in 2009 after over 14 years of private
School of Law, Auckland University of practice, latterly as a partner in the Environmental/Resource Management team at
Technology Chapman Tripp. His legal practice focused on advice to private and public clients on
vernon.rive@aut.ac.nz the resource management and public law aspects of land transport, infrastructure,
property developments, subdivisions, retail resource management, energy, waste
management, and environmental due diligence investigations. He has appeared
before local authorities, the Environment Court, Land Valuation Tribunal, Maori Land
Court, High Court and Supreme Court on various resource management, public
and private law issues. Vernon is a co-convenor of the NZ Resource Management
Law Association Academic Advisory Group, member of the managing committee
of the NZ for Environmental Law, Consultant Editor of the LexisNexis Resource
Management Bulletin and Affiliated Graduate Researcher at Melbourne Law School’s
Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness.
Professor Colin Gavaghan Colin is the Director of the NZ Law Foundation Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging
Director, NZ Law Foundation Centre Technologies at the Faculty of Law, University of Otago. The Centre examines the legal,
for Law and Policy in Emerging ethical and policy issues around new technologies. The Centre has carried out work
Technologies, Faculty of Law, on biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and communication technologies and
University of Otago artificial intelligence. Colin researches and lectures on law and technology, as well
colin.gavaghan@otago.ac.nz as medical and criminal law. He has an extensive publication record, including co-
authoring a major 2019 report on Government use of artificial intelligence (AI) in NZ
and the recently published Citizens’ Guide to AI (MIT Press, 2021). A native of Scotland,
Colin formerly lectured at the University of Glasgow. Since establishing himself in NZ,
he has served as Deputy Chair of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive
Technology. Colin is a current member of the Digital Council for Aotearoa NZ and the
current Chair of the NZ Police Expert Panel on Emergent Technologies.
Marcus Roberts Marcus is a Senior Lecturer at the Auckland Law School. He has taught the Law of
Auckland Law School, The University Contract, the Law of Torts, Company Law, and Introduction to Common Law. His
of Auckland research interests are mainly in the Law of Contract and Negligence. Since 2020, he
m.roberts@auckland.ac.nz has also been the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning). In both his teaching and
administrative roles he is interested in seeing how rapid technological change will
impact the teaching and practice of law in the years to come.
Ana Lenard Ana is a dispute resolution lawyer and law lecturer at Te Whare Wananga o Tāmaki
Te Whare Wananga o Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Wāhanga Ture where she has taught dispute resolution and legal
Makaurau, Te Wāhanga Ture ethics. Ana recently completed her LLM at Columbia University where she studied
ana.lenard@gmail.com critical legal theories, legal systems, dispute resolution, and law pedagogy. Her LLM
research essay focused on lessons from the pandemic for negotiation teachers.
From September, she will be undertaking a PhD in which she will apply critical legal
theories to the use of alternative dispute resolution in Aotearoa. Ana also researches
and advocates for culture change in the legal profession.
Christina Hatton Christina was one of the 2020/2021 TeLENZ Summer Research Scholars. Christina is
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University currently studying towards a Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Management Studies
of Waikato at the University of Waikato. Her areas of interest include the use of AI, digital crimes
Summer Research Scholar and the future of law in New Zealand.
christinahatton123@gmail.com
Peter Marshall Peter was one of the 2020/2021 TeLENZ Summer Research Scholars. Peter is a
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University final year law student at Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University of Waikato. He is
of Waikato very enthusiastic about law and technology, especially in the areas of blockchain
Summer Research Scholar technologies, and immensely interested in tech-related questions around firearms and
prmarshall@gmail.com space law. He loves all the weird, niche and difficult-to-answer legal tech questions.
Rachel Tan Rachel is a Research Assistant from the University of Waikato. She completed her
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University LLB in 2007 at Bond University, Australia. After working in military defence industries,
of Waikato IT and retail project management companies, Rachel decided to return to research
PhD Candidate in the exploration of cyberlaw as it has always been her interest. She completed
rt.racheltan@gmail.com her LLM (First Class Honours) at the University of Waikato in 2019, after which
she commenced her PhD research. She is interested in cyberlaw, particularly in the
challenges of regulating social media. Her thesis topic explores regulating online hate
speech in social media environments.Andrew King Andrew King (Presenter & Chair, Session VI) is the founder of Legal Innovate, helping
E-Discovery Consulting and LawFest lawyers and their organisations successfully innovate by effectively leveraging
Organiser technology. Andrew has unparalleled knowledge and deep expertise in the New
Founder Zealand legal + tech market, gained over 20+ years working with leading companies
andrew@lawfest.nz in New Zealand and globally. Legal Innovate brands include LawFest, LegalTech Hub
and E-Discovery Consulting. Andrew prides himself on providing expert, objective
advice and support to find and implement the most effective solutions to achieve your
outcomes. He is vendor-agnostic and does not sell any products.
Sara Stratton Sara established Māori LAB and is a Māori advisor to Tech Futures Lab. Māori
Māori LAB and Māori Advisor to Tech Lab is a service to businesses or organisations to "Navigate Uncharted Waters of
Futures Lab Change." She says, “businesses and organisations struggle for survival, relevance,
sara.stratton@techfutureslab.com and authentic identity" and Māori LAB encourages genuine relationships with Māori.
Māori LAB unpacks the relevance and exciting impact that Te Tiriti o Waitangi has for
all people in Aotearoa, and also demonstrates how Te Ao Māori, a Māori world view,
is the inclusive growth mindset needed in taking us into a thriving future.
Matt Farrington Matt is part of Juno Legal, an innovative NewLaw firm. Matt works as both a
Juno Legal practising lawyer and legal technologist. Matt is a proponent of "lawyer tech" - tools
matt.farrington@junolegal.com and technologies to help lawyers make their practices more efficient, effective and
enjoyable. As a lawyer, Matt's practice includes ICT contracting, intellectual property
licensing, and data protection and privacy law. Prior to joining Juno Legal, Matt
worked in private practice, the public sector, and investment banking.
Maria Sopoaga Maria currently works for MinterEllisonRuddWatts in Wellington. She completed Law
MinterEllisonRuddWatts and Arts (majoring in English & Philosophy) degrees at the University of Auckland
mmasei@me.com in 2018. is the Deputy Convener of the Auckland Young Lawyers Committee at the
New Zealand Law Society, serving and leading the next generation of lawyers across
the Auckland region. was awarded the Centre for Legal Innovation’s (CLI) Young
Legalpreneurs Scholarship for New Zealand, established to identify and support
the entrepreneurial spirit of early career lawyers. Along with her fellow Australian
Legalpreneurs Scholars, heads the CLI’s Young Legalpreneurs Special Interest Group,
focused on building a learning community of like-minded legal tech and innovation
focused young lawyers.
Ben Winslade Ben provides advice on the law of technology and he is also interested in the use of
Hone technology in the practice of law. He has purchased and implemented legal technology
Founder solutions as a customer and has founded his own legal tech company, Hone, which
benwinslade@gmail.com provides interactive legal document training. He is a former chair of LegalTech NZ. Ben
has worked as a commercial lawyer for technology companies for many years. He
has practised in New Zealand and the UK, and has worked both in private practice
and in-house. He currently runs his own practice advising NZ technology businesses.
Professor Mark Henaghan Mark Henaghan is Professor of Law at the University of Auckland. The principal focus
Auckland Law School, University of of his career is teaching. His main research interests include family law, especially
Auckland law relating to children, law regarding the human genome, and judiciary law. He
mark.henaghan@auckland.ac.nz was the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Otago. He is involved in the
Pathways and Transitions Research Project as part of the New Zealand Government
funded Resilience Research Project. Mark was the Principal Investigator for the Law
Foundation’s multidisciplinary and international Human Genome Research Project:
Law, Ethics and Policy for the Future.
Tom Maasland Tom is an internationally recognised, award-winning technology law specialist who is
MinterEllisonRuddWatts passionate about tech and telecommunications - about their everyday use and ability
Partner - Corporate and Commercial to transform organisations, borne from working in the industry (both as an in-house
tom.maasland@minterellison.co.nz lawyer and in private practice) over the past 20 years. He advises clients across all
areas of tech and co-leads MERW’s innovation practice area, and is an author and
regular speaker on transformational and strategic tech issues and developments.
Tom leads the firm’s national TMT practice. He is recognised by all major directories
as a leading TMT lawyer, including in Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, Legal 500
Asia Pacific, Best Lawyers NZ, and Doyles Guide for Technology.
Please note that photographs and video recordings will be taken throughout the symposium. These may be used
publicly, on social media, or on our webpage. The video recordings of the presentations including Q&A sessions
may be used for teaching and educational purposes.
Please contact Fleur Mullen if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.TeLENZ is proud to be funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation.
The New Zealand Law Foundation enables quality research with enduring impact through legal research, grants
and scholarships.
Since 1992, the Law Foundation has supported research in law and public education on legal issues by providing
over $30 million in funding.
Recognising the importance of addressing the changing needs of law graduates due to the speed of technological
change and the critical need for academics to have the relevant tools, knowledge and content, the Law Foundation
provided funding to support the TeLENZ project. In addition, the Law Foundation recognises the growing demands
on time and resources for academics, and the need for updated content in a constantly changing legal and global
landscape.
The project involves academic representatives from all of the six New Zealand law faculties/schools and is led by
Associate Professor Wayne Rumbles, former Dean of Law (2015 - 2020) at Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University
of Waikato.
Through collaborative approaches, TeLENZ seeks to refine and share IT-related aspects of pedagogy in the
law curriculum in New Zealand with a view to introducing new or additional IT-focused material into core legal
subjects for second and third-year law programmes. This includes developing content to assist academics to
create papers, extend resources, and support academics with teaching material related to technology, cyber
security and AI fields of law.
TeLENZ aims to provide a vital resource for academics at all tertiary organisations by creating a knowledge
repository, fostering an online collaborative community to share information and develop practical tools that they
can implement in their teaching.
Through its work, TeLENZ will encourage opportunities to provide significant enhancements to the systematic
teaching of law at universities in New Zealand.
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FutureLaw @ Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
The Future Law Technology and Society Research Group is a group of academics and researchers at
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, that is focused on legal, ethical and public policy
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