Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Nicolas Suzor
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Law,
Law School - Discipline *
- Law, Other Law and Legal Studies
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 1098
- n.suzor@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), Master of Laws (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Information Technology (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Laws (Queensland University of Technology)
- Keywords
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IPIL, DMRC, regulation of technology, access to knowledge, open access, platform governance, internet regulation
Biography
Associate Professor Nicolas Suzor researches the regulation of networked society. He is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow in the Law School at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator of QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre. His research examines the governance of the internet and social networks, the peer economy, digital copyright, and knowledge commons. Nic teaches intellectual property and technology law, and in 2016 he was awarded QUT’s David Gardiner Teacher of the Year medal for his engaging and innovative teaching. Nic is also the Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Australia project and the deputy chair of Digital Rights Watch, an Australian non-profit organisation whose mission is to ensure that Australian citizens are equipped, empowered and enabled to uphold their digital rights.
Teaching
Units currently taught
Publications
- Suzor NP, (2018) Digital constitutionalism: Using the rule of law to evaluate the legitimacy of governance by platforms, Social Media and Society p1-11
- Suzor NP, Van Geelen TE, Myers West S, (2018) Evaluating the legitimacy of platform governance: A review of research and a shared research agenda, The International Communication Gazette p385-400
- Suzor NP, Dragiewicz MA, Harris B, Gillett RM, Burgess JE, Van Geelen TE, (2018) Human rights by design: The responsibilities of social media platforms to address gender-based violence online, Policy and Internet p1-20
- Duguay S, Burgess JE, Suzor NP, (2018) Queer women's experiences of patchwork platform governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine, Convergence p1-16
- Suzor NP, Seignior B, Singleton JM, (2017) Non-consensual porn and the responsibilities of online intermediaries, Melbourne University Law Review p1057-1097
- Witt AE, Suzor NP, Wikstrom PL, (2015) Regulating ride-sharing in the peer economy, Communication Research and Practice p174-190
- Dootson P, Suzor NP, (2015) The game of clones and the Australia tax: divergent views about copyright business models and the willingness of Australian consumers to infringe, University of New South Wales Law Journal p206-239
- Suzor NP, (2014) Free-riding, cooperation, and 'peaceful revolutions' in copyright, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology p137-193
- Suzor N, (2013) Access, progress, and fairness: Rethinking exclusivity in copyright, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law p297-342
- Suzor N, (2010) The role of the rule of law in virtual communities, Berkeley Technology Law Journal p1817-1886
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award