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======Curriculum Vitae======

====Education====

**2006 – current**:	Queensland University of Technology

  * PhD (Faculty of Law), “Virtual environments and digital constitutionalism”.

**July 2005**:		Oxford Internet Institute

  * Participated in the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme in Beijing.

**2004 – 2005**:		Queensland University of Technology

  * Masters of Laws (Research), “Transformative use of copyright material”.

**1999 – 2003**:		Queensland University of Technology

  * Bachelor of Laws  / Bachelor of I.T., completed end 2003.

====Professional====
  * Admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of Queensland July 2007

====Experience====

**2006 – current: Board Member, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)**

  * Volunteer member of the EFA Board

  * Elected Vice-Chair 2007-08.

**2005 – current: Sessional academic, Queensland University of Technology**

  * Co-coordinator – Open Copyright Licensing: Masters level subject in the Faculty of Law
  * Tutor – Theories of Law (Semester 1): Third year jurisprudence subject in the Faculty of Law
  * Tutor – Creative Industries Legal Issues (Semester 2): Compulsory subject in the Creative Industries Faculty


**2003 - current: Senior Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology**

  * Research, reviewing, editing, authorship and drafting for Professor Brian Fitzgerald (Head, QUT School of Law).
  * Drafting submissions and responses to questions on notice related to Federal copyright legislation.
  * Main research areas: open copyright licensing, commons-based peer production, governance in online spaces and virtual worlds, the intersection of contract and intellectual property law, and consumer protection, security and privacy issues.
  * Researcher with the Australian Creative Commons project. Work involves adapting the licences to Australian law, and raising awareness and use of the licences in Australia.
  * Involved with the new Open Access to Knowledge project at QUT, which aims to develop and adopt legal protocols for managing copyright in an open access environment.
  * Created a set of innovative problem-based learning legal ethics scenarios for use both by undergraduate law students and legal practitioners for continuing legal education.

**1999 – December 2004: Programmer, Consolidated Computer Services**

  * Designed, implemented and managed mid-sized projects.
  * Implemented a complete Smart Card purchasing, movement and management  system for a prison in Western Australia.
  * Implemented a vehicle tracking / management system for a security company.
  * Created a client/server application to collect, store and review condition, safety and water quality information on over 3,000 Australian reservoirs and aqueducts.


====Refereed Publications====

  * Nicolas Suzor, {{:publications:suzor-parody-2008-13malr218.pdf|'Where the bloody hell does parody fit in Australian copyright law?'}} (2008) 13(2) MALR 218.
  * Nicolas Suzor, Paul Harpur and Dilan Thampapillai, {{:publications:2008-digital_copyright_and_disability_discrimination_2008_13_1_malr1.pdf|'Digital copyright and disability discrimination: From braille books to bookshare'}} (2008) 13(1) MALR 1.
  * B Fitzgerald and N Suzor, “Legal Issues for the Use of Free Software in Government” (2005) 29(2) Melbourne University Law Review 412.
  * S Humphreys, B Fitzgerald, J Banks and N Suzor, “Fan based production for computer games: User led innovation, the 'drift of value' and the negotiation of intellectual property rights” (2005) 114 Media International Australia.
  * N Suzor, "{{:publications:privacy_v_ip_litigation_2004_25abr227.pdf|Privacy v Intellectual Property Litigation: Preliminary Third Party Discovery on the Internet}}" (2004) 25 Aust Bar Rev 228. 
  * G Basset and N Suzor, “Recent Developments” in B Fitzgerald and G Basset (eds.) Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software (2003).

[[publications|More publications, conferences, and guest lectures / presentations]].

====Referees====

Referees available upon request.