Bruce Arnold

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Position

Lecturer


Qualifications

  •  Juris Doctor (UC)
  • Currently undertaking PhD on law’s construction of identity


Past Professional & Teaching Experience

  • Bruce has taught Information Law, Intellectual Property Law, Competition & Consumer Protection Law, Employment & Discrimination Law and Lawyers & Professional Responsibility at the University of Canberra.
  • He has supervised LLB and JD Hons dissertations regarding sexting, electronic evidence, gene patents and reparations
  • He consulted in Australia and overseas after service as a Commonwealth official concerned with digital technologies, commercialization, information law and cultural policy.
  • He has been a member of advisory and policymaking bodies of auDA (domain name regulation), IIA (internet industry), ISOC-AU (internet civil society) and AusBiotech (biotechnology industry).
  • Bruce has a particular interest in privacy, data protection, confidentiality, biometrics, LBGTIQ law, animal law, patents, trade marks and the law of cultural property.


Teaching

  • Intellectual Property (2011)
  • Guest lecturing in Obligations, Mental Health Law, Collection Management, and Law & Literature


Publications

Numerous publications in peer-reviewed law, business and technology journals and presentations at conferences. Recent highlights include –

  • ‘It Just Doesn’t ADD Up: ADHD/ADD, The Workplace and Discrimination’, Melbourne University Law Review – with Professor Patricia Easteal, Professor Simon Easteal and Associate Professor Simon Rice
  • ‘Burning With Indignation: Arson, Law and the 2009 Victorian Bushfires’, Local Government Law Journal
  • ‘Ambient Anomie in the Virtualised Landscape? Autonomy, Surveillance and Flows in the 2020 Streetscape’, M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture – with Margalit Levin
  • ‘Leaky Databases: Law and Data Loss at Sony’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘Not Officers or Gentlemen: Surveillance, Law and the ADFA Webcam Incident’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘One Card To Rule Them All: Biometric Cards and National Registration in India’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘Relatively Speaking: Genetic Privacy and Public Interest Determinations 11 and 11A under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)’, Privacy Law Bulletin – with Dr Wendy Bonython
  • ‘Turkey-basters and terabytes : privacy aspects of the Senate donor conception report’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘Those Who Won’t Be Missed: Questions About Tenant Profiling and Privacy’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘Can’t Take It With You: Recent Literature on Death, Property and Taxes’, Canberra Law Review
  • ‘Every Letter, every call: Data Retention and the Senate Online Privacy Report’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘Identity Fever’, Southern Cross Law Review
  • ‘The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest’, International Journal of Communications Law and Policy
  • ‘Making the indescribable invisible?’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘What To Do About Wikileaks?’, Security Solutions
  • ‘Open Doors: Recent Problems With Medical Privacy’, Privacy Law Bulletin
  • ‘The Evolution of Biometrics in Australia’, Security Solutions
  • ‘Roboguard For Hire: Questions About Robots As A Commercial Security Solution’, Security Solutions

He has made invited submissions to Parliamentary Committees on cybercrime, data protection, censorship and environmental regulation, and to a range of regulatory bodies on telecommunications, privacy and lifesciences regulation.
Conference papers include –

  • Digital Handcuffs or Electronic Nannies: Children, Privacy and Emerging Surveillance Technologies
  • The Face of Anxiety in the Age of Biometrics
  • Identity Theatre: Rhetoric and Reality in Contemporary National Identity Schemes
  • Forgers, Fantasists and Forensics: Identity Crime in the Information Economy
  • Dracula in the Dock: A Translegal Perspective on Australian Law
  • Building A Profile Of The Financial Criminal

Bruce is General Editor of Privacy Law Bulletin, Australia’s leading privacy and data protection journal.

He is the author of chapters in Price, Bodkin, Arnold & Adjei Intellectual Property Commentary & Materials text (Thomson Reuters 2011), introductory chapters in the LexisNexis Butterworths Privacy service (2011) and the FOI chapter in the Victorian Legal Practice Manual (2011).