Current Projects
Future Law researchers contribute to the following projects:
TeLENZ
TeLENZ is the Law Foundation-funded ‘Technology in Legal Education for New Zealand’ Project. TeLENZ is a nationwide collaborative initiative that facilitates the further integration of Information Technology-related content into core legal undergraduate education.
The TeLENZ Project involves all New Zealand law faculties/schools and is led by Associate Professor Wayne Rumbles https://telenz.nz/
NZ Law Foundation funding under their Information Law and Policy Project: $347,000
2019 ~ ongoing
My DNA, Your DNA, Our DNA:
Protection of rights in the context of personal genomics
Protection of rights in the context of personal genomics
Principal investigators:
Dr Andelka Phillips (Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, University of Waikato)
Dr Jan Charbonneau (University of Tasmania)
Cultural advisors : Associate Professor Maui Hudson (Waikato) and Professor Greg Lehman (Tasmania)
This project explores the general public’s understanding of genomics and their rights in relation to personal genomic information and DNA in both public and private sectors in New Zealand and Australia. The study’s key focus is the right to privacy, as defined in applicable regulation, and individual understanding of these rights as they present in privacy policies. Of primary concern is whether knowledge and attitudes towards genetic privacy impact on individual willingness to donate, use, share, and allow storage/subsequent access/sale of personal genetic information.
Funding by Genomics Aotearoa and the Strategic Investment Fund University of Waikato
Legal Regulation of our Digital Life -Theory and Practice in New Zealand
Author: Associate Professor Wayne Rumbles
The internet is vital for much of modern lives , we connect through computers, our phones and increasingly other connected devices. This networked digital life brings with it increased vulnerabilities and increased opportunity for offending or breaching civil duties. The internet and its associated technologies impact on nearly every aspect of the law and often require the law to bend and twist in ways that was not intended. In some areas the interpretation of the current law has been adjusted and in other areas unique legislation or processes have been developed. It is important that both practitioners and law students are equipped with an understanding of how the law has and will respond to our networked environment.
Book Project: Publisher Thomson Reuters
Cyber Diplomacy project
Jean Monnet Network on Cyber Diplomacy
Partner Universities: Universite libre de Bruxelles (lead), University of Warwick, University of Leiden, University of Bologna, Tallinn University of Technology, International Christian University and University of Waikato
Waikato investigators:
Dr Andelka Phillips (Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, University of Waikato) [Management Committee member]
Dr Michael Dizon (Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, University of Waikato)
Dr Vimal Kumar (School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato) [Management Committee member]
Dr Jan Charbonneau (University of Tasmania)
Funding by European Commission €300,000