Dr. Nigel Wilson
Director Australis Chambers
- Adelaide
Keynote & Invited Speaker at National & International Conferences - Award-winning Author - Australian Lawyer - Teaching Professional
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Biography
He is the award-winning author or Teaching Professionals: The Art of the Teaching Professional and How to Teach Professionals - The CAISSEP Technique
Nigel was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the University of South Australia for his thesis entitled “Regulation in the Information Age in Australia: From the Boardroom to the Courtroom”. He holds degrees in Law (Honours, First Class) and Economics from the University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of South Australia. He also holds a Master’s degree in Law from Oxford University and has been awarded Harvard University’s Premier Certificate in Cybersecurity.
As an expert teaching professional since 1992, Dr Wilson has extensive experience across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, practical legal training, clinical legal practice, corporate professional development and post-admission barrister education programmes. For over two decades, he has conducted educational training programmes for Australian legal practices, workplaces, and Australian judicial colleges. Nationally and internationally, he has spoken at over fifty conferences and has twice been an invited keynote speaker at National Judicial College of Australia conferences.
From 2001 to 2008, he established and convened, pro bono, the South Australian Bar Association’s (SABA) Bar Reader’s Course with the SABA BRC Committee. In 2014, he was recognised by the SABA for his teaching leadership and professionalism by the award of an annual lecture.
Dr Wilson has research expertise and has published, nationally and internationally, in legal education, the law of regulation, expert evidence, the law of evidence, competition and consumer law, insurance law, tort law, corporate law, digital forensics, risk management, cybersecurity, and technology law. He has held editorial board appointments on two leading international technology law journals and been a law reform adviser to the South Australian and Australian governments.
Since 1993, he has represented Australian and international citizens, corporations, regulators, and governments in all Australian courts and tribunals. He has also held in-house legal roles and been General Counsel of South Australia’s largest private corporation and also General Counsel and Head of Governance of the Indigenous Land Corporation.
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
South Australian Bar Association - Nigel Wilson Annual Lecture
Awarded by the South Australian Bar Association (SABA) in 2014 in recognition of service and contribution to the SABA, in particular to the SABA Bar Readers’ Course from 2001-2011
Ambassador, Adelaide Convention Bureau
By appointment of the South Australian Minister for Tourism and for the City of Adelaide in 2009 - current.
Education
University of South Australia
PhD
Law
2020
Regulation in the Information Age: From the Boardroom to the Courtroom
Harvard University
Premier Certificate
Cybersecurity
2020
University of Oxford
Masters of Law
Bachelor of Civil Law
1993
University of South Australia
Graduate Diploma
Legal Practice
1992
University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Laws
Honours - First Class
1991
University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Economics
Economics
1989
Affiliations
- https://www.australischambers.com/
Languages
- English
Event Appearances
Guest Speaker, “Digital Experts: The Power of Effective Communication”
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Adelaide, 2021
Guest Speaker, “Australian Water Markets and Indigenous Australians”
River Murray & Mallee Aboriginal Corporation 2020
Guest Speaker, “COVID-19: Tracing App – Metadata issues”
COVID-19 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Business School, SA, 2020
Guest Speaker, “Metadata: The Legal issues – Business Data and Cybersecurity”
Adelaide Business School University of Adelaide, 2020
Speaker, “Metadata: From Ingestion to Retention – The Legal Issues”
Cyber Security Research Bootcamp 2020 Joint Cybersecurity Centre, Adelaide, SA, 2020
Keynote speaker, “Digital Forensics: Challenges and Future”
Flinders Law Public Lecture Adelaide, SA, 2019
Speaker, “Cybersecurity and Privacy: An Australian legal perspective”
Industry Presentation Day, Cyber Security Research Bootcamp 2019 Joint Cybersecurity Centre, Adelaide, SA, 2019
Keynote Speaker, “Native Title 2018 - The Kaurna Peoples and the Adelaide Determination”
Australian Government Solicitor Adelaide, SA, 2018
Keynote Speaker, “Cybersecurity: The Judicial Role
National Judicial College of Australia Hobart, Tasmania 2017
Keynote Speaker, “Expert Evidence in Australia – a more transparent path post-Dasreef”
Forensic Science SA Adelaide, SA, 2017
Speaker, “If We are Game - We can Change”
Australian Insurance Law Association National Conference Adelaide, SA, 2016
Speaker, “Metadata: The Insurance Dimension”
Australian Insurance Law Association Adelaide, SA, 2015
Keynote speaker, “Metadata: The Judicial Role”
National Judicial College of Australia, Adelaide, SA, 2015
Speaker, “Matter, metadata, miniaturisation and the misty cloud: More legal practice challenges in the Digital Age”,
International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science, The University of Adelaide, 2015
Keynote speaker, “Evidence and Proof: The Position in Australia”
School of Translational Health Science, Joanna Briggs Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Adelaide, 2015
Convenor, “Crossing the Line”
2014 Annual Conference Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association, 2014
Speaker, “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Business Judgment Rule in the Sporting World – Where is the Line?
Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Conference Adelaide, SA, 2014
Speaker, “Digital Evidence & Forensics in Australia & New Zealand: Recent Developments”
Schloss Dagstuhl Conference (invitation only attendee) Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany, 2014
Delegate, by invitation of the Chief Defence Scientist
National Science & Technology and CyberSecurity Workshops Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Canberra 2014
Keynote speaker, “Expert Evidence in Australia: the Insurance Dimension?”
Australian Insurance Law Association National AGM Adelaide, SA, 2013
Co-Convenor
Intellectual Property Academics Conference University of Adelaide, 2012
Keynote speaker, “Digital Experts – Why is Effective Communication So Important to Both the Admissibility and Persuasiveness of Expert Opinion?”
Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law Conference Richmond, Virginia, USA 2012
Convenor, “Hosting Sporting Events in South Australia – Legal and Risk Management Issues”
Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association Adelaide, SA, 2011
Keynote speaker, “Expert Evidence in the Digital Age”
ECAU Security Congress Edith Cowan University 2011
Session Chair
Advanced Contract Law Conference University of Adelaide Law School & Law Society of South Australia, Contracts and the Online Environment, Adelaide, SA, 2011
Keynote speaker, “Cloud Computing – (Forensically) cloudy but fine?”
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Adelaide, SA, 2011
Speaker, “e-Risks – Insurance Dilemma or Delight?”
Australian Insurance Law Association National Conference, Adelaide, SA, 2010
Speaker, “Mobile Forensics in Australia”
Mobile World Forensics 2009 Conference Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2009
Speaker, “Digital Forensics in Australia – The view from Down Under”
Association of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law 2009 Conference, Burlington, Vermont, USA, 2009
peaker, “Privacy, Human Rights & Religion in Australia – Celebrating a Diamond Jubilee or Holding a Rough Diamond?”
BILETA Conference Winchester University, England, 2009
Speaker, “Connecting to the Network: Norms, Religion and Human Rights in Australia”
CPTS Conference Marssen, The Netherlands, 2009
Speaker, “Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Warming or Warming the Globe?”
Knowledge Globalization Conference 2009 Suffolk University, Sawyer Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009
Speaker, “Regulating the Information Age – How will we cope with technological change?”
Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration, Law & Technology Conference Sydney, NSW, 2008
Speaker, “The Cyber-Workplace – Liability Issues and Risk Management”
Association of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law 2008 Conference Oklahoma City, USA, 2008
Speaker, “The Workplace of the Future in the Global Knowledge Economy”
Knowledge Globalization Conference 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008
Speaker, “Forensics in Cyberspace – The Legal Challenges”
e-Forensics 2008 Conference (The First International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia) Adelaide, SA, 2008
Speaker, “The Workplace of the Future – Liability Issues and Risk Management”
econd International Conference on Legal, Security & Privacy Issues in Information Technology (LSPI) Beijing, China, 2007
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- Keynote
- Moderator
- Panelist
- Workshop Leader
- Host/MC
- Author Appearance
- Corporate Training
