John Selby
LLB (Hons 1, University Medal) (Griffith), BInt Bus (Griffith)
Grad Dip in Legal Practice
(NSW College of Law),
Grad Dip in Arbitration
(UQ)

Lecturer

Department of Business Law

Division of Law

Macquarie University

NSW 2109 Australia

Room 433 in Building W3A

Telephone: +61 (0)2 9850 7081
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 9850 9952

Email: john.selby@law.mq.edu.au

John Selby

Areas of Interest

Biography

John has lectured at Macquarie University since July 2002. He previously practised from July 1999 as a solicitor in the Technology, Communications and Intellectual Property law group in the Sydney office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

Prior to that, he worked as a law clerk with TMI Associates in Tokyo, Japan; as a consultant to the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Canada and organised a conference on Human Rights and International Business for the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development.

John has coached two Macquarie University teams in the Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot Competition and in recent semesters has taught Revenue Law and LAW868 Electronic Commerce and the Law. Since joining the Macquarie University Division of Law, John has delivered guest lectures at:

Recent Publications

Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals/Books:

Selby, J ‘Trade in Intellectual Policy’, chapter in Gillies, P. and Moens, G. (eds) International Trade: Policy and Ethics, Routledge.

Public Submissions:

18-page submission to the DCITA Review of the operation and management of the .au domain name space, available at: http://www.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/55836/John_Selby_-_Macquarie_University.pdf

Editorial Work:

Member of the Editorial Committee of the Macquarie Business Law Journal

Conferences:

Presented a paper titled ‘A preliminary NIE Analysis of the .au domain’ at the International Business Law and Technology Conference, Copenhagen, December 2006.

Presented a paper titled ‘Governance of the .au domain name space’ at the Law, Security and Privacy International Conference in Hamburg, May 2006.

2006 Grants

External Competitive Grant:

• $20,000  auDA Foundation funding towards a PhD scholarship for an indigenous Australian to research into indigenous aspects of Internet Law

Internal Competitive Grant:

• $2,500    Division of Law contribution towards travel to present a paper at the International Business Law and Technology Conference, Copenhagen

Community Engagement

• Selected by the Lowy Institute as one of Australia’s “New Voices in Technology and International Relations” in May 2006

• Twice interviewed by Overclockers Australia for hour-long podcasts on technology law issues, available at:    http://www.overclockers.com.au/files/ocau_podcast10_high.mp3 and
   http://www.overclockers.com.au/files/ocau_podcast20_high.mp3

2005

Publications in Refereed Journals / Books:

Manning, A and Selby, J (2005) ‘A Fine Line Between Legal Access and Circumvention’, Vol 5, Computer Law Review International, No 6.

Selby, J ‘Child Pornography Crackdown’, Vol 5, Computer Law Review International, No 1.

Research 2005 – 6

Undertook OSP at the KULeuven in Belgium, researching governance of the domain name space


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