Curriculum Vitae

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.

• Admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of Queensland July 2007

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

• Volunteer member of the EFA Board

• Elected Vice-Chair 2007-08.

2005 – current: 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.

• Nicolas Suzor, 'Where the bloody hell does parody fit in Australian copyright law?' (2008 forthcoming, MALR)
• Nicolas Suzor, Paul Harpur and Dilan Thampapillai, '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, “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).

More publications, conferences, and guest lectures / presentations.

Referees available upon request.