Personal details
- Name
- Professor Nicolas Suzor
- Position(s)
- 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
Nicolas Suzor researches the regulation of networked society. He is a Professor the Law School at Queensland University of Technology, 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. He is the author of Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives (Cambridge, 2019).
Nic teaches intellectual property and technology law at QUT. He is an award winning educator, receiving QUT’s David Gardiner Teacher of the Year medal in 2016 and was nationally recognised as a recipient of an Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2017 for his engaging and innovative teaching. Nic is also the Chapter 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.
Publications
- Suzor NP, (2019) Lawless: The secret rules that govern our digital lives p1-218
- Suzor NP, Dragiewicz MA, Harris B, Gillett RM, Burgess JE, Van Geelen TE, (2019) Human rights by design: The responsibilities of social media platforms to address gender-based violence online, Policy and Internet p54-103
- Suzor NP, Myers West S, Quodling AP, York J, (2019) What do we mean when we talk about transparency? Towards meaningful transparency in commercial content moderation, International Journal of Communication p1526-1543
- 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
- Duguay S, Burgess JE, Suzor NP, (2018) Queer women's experiences of patchwork platform governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine, Convergence p1-16
- Dragiewicz MA, Burgess JE, Matamoros Fernandez A, Salter MA, Suzor NP, Woodlock D, Harris B, (2018) Technology facilitated coercive control: Domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms, Feminist Media Studies p609-625
- Pappalardo KM, Suzor NP, (2018) The liability of Australian online intermediaries, The Sydney Law Review p469-498
- Suzor NP, Seignior B, Singleton JM, (2017) Non-consensual porn and the responsibilities of online intermediaries, Melbourne University Law Review p1057-1097
- Suzor NP, (2014) Free-riding, cooperation, and 'peaceful revolutions' in copyright, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology p137-193
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