Associate Professor Katharine Kemp
BCom, LLB (Hons) (Qld), LLM (Stellenbosch), PhD (91色情片 PhD Excellence Award)
A/Prof Katharine Kemp is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, 91色情片 Sydney, and leads the 91色情片 Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative (PILATI). Outside academia, she is also a Member of the Australian Competition Tribunal.听
Katharine鈥檚 research focuses on data privacy, consumer protection and competition regulation. She has published widely in these fields, including "Misuse of Market Power: Rationale and Reform" (Cambridge University Press), "Competition Law of South Africa" (LexisNexis) with PJ Sutherland, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2023, she was awarded the Emerging Leader Award at the national Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards.听
Her advisory and editorial roles include membership of the Advisory Committee for the NSW Information & Privacy Commission and the Research Committee of the Consumer Policy Research Centre.听
She also convenes and lectures听the Data Privacy Law course; the postgraduate course, Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of Fintech; and Contracts at 91色情片 Law.
Before joining the faculty, Katharine was a Research Fellow on the 91色情片 Digital Financial Services Research Team, conducting in-depth research into the regulation of digital financial services in developing countries in particular.听
She has also practised as a commercial lawyer at Allens, as a barrister in Melbourne, and consulted to the Competition Commission of South Africa during the six years that she lived and worked in South Africa.听
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- Teaching and Supervision
2025 - Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University College London
2023 - Emerging Leader Award, national Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards
2023 -听Award for Most Outstanding Presentation by an Established Academic, Australia New Zealand Consumer Law Roundtable
2019 鈥� 2020 - 91色情片 Law Impact & Engagement Fellowship听led research on the need for an unfair trade practices prohibition in Australia, following the award of competitive funding.
2016 - 91色情片 PhD Excellence Award for a dissertation receiving the highest available grades.
2015 - Garth Nettheim Doctoral Teaching Fellowship
2014 - Gaire Blunt Scholarship听awarded by the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia for a paper on competition law.
2014 - Bruce Kercher Scholarship听awarded by the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society to present a paper on the history of Australian competition law at the Society鈥檚 annual conference.
2013 鈥� 2016 - Australian Postgraduate Award
2013 鈥� 2016 - 91色情片 Law Faculty Top-Up Scholarship, for top-ranking Australian Postgraduate Award recipients
My Research Supervision
Anthony Ross - PhD -听鈥楢 Path Forward? Assessing how an Unfair Trade Practices Prohibition Could Reshape Australia鈥檚 Privacy Law鈥� (supervisors: Katharine Kemp/Lyria Bennett Moses)
Tavini Nanayakkara - PhD - 鈥楧ata privacy in South Asia: Analysis of European diffusion, intentional design and possibilities of regional convergence鈥� (Katharine Kemp/Marina Nehme)
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Sriram Srikumar - PhD -听The legal treatment of "formless" data used in automated decision systems听(with Prof Lyria Bennett-Moses)
Kennedy Chege - PhD - The regulation of cartel conduct in the petroleum industry听(with Prof Hanri Mostert)
My Teaching
Data Privacy Law LAWS3250 - JURD7550
Governance for Responsible AI - LAWJ2000
Contracts - LAWS1075
Principles of Private Law LAWS 1150 JURD7150