Philippa Ryan

Blockchain Standards * AI Ethics * Legal Education * Unhacking and Decoding for Lawyers

At UTS Law, I coordinate and teach Commercial Equity; Technology Law Policy and Ethics; and Disruptive Technologies and the Law. I also teach in the UTS Master of Data Science and Innovation. My PhD formulated a new classification for the liability of third parties to a breach of trust. I am currently researching the regulation and status of cryptocurrencies and trust protocols enabled by blockchain technology. I am the Chair of the Standards Australia Blockchain Technical Committee and lead author of the International Standards Organisation Blockchain Technical Committee's Smart Contracts Technical Specification. I am the Deputy Chair of the Australian Computer Society's Blockchain Technical Committee. Forthcoming book: Trust and Distrust in Digital Economies (Routledge, 2019)