Dr Brydon Wang
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Dr Brydon Wang is an author, lawyer and scholar researching at the confluence of law, technology and design governance of the city. He is the Academic Lead of Engagement for QUT School of Law. Brydon is passionate about how we can increase trustworthiness in decision-making around the design and deployment of technology in our cities. He focuses on benevolent data structures and how our cities can be made smarter and more resilient to climate change. Brydon is dually qualified in law and architecture and practised as a technology and construction lawyer with global top-tier law firm Allens Linklaters. He also has a previous career in architecture and contract administration on award-winning construction projects, with twenty years in the construction industry.Brydon was recently lead editor of the book, Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (Springer, 2021) and co-edited Large Floating Structures, a book exploring environmentally-sustainable technologies that allow cities to expand onto adjacent water bodies. He's featured on ABC Radio National's Future Tense discussing offshore architecture and marine urban sprawl, and on Seeker's popular documentary, How close are we to Living in the Ocean? Brydon teaches privacy law, data ethics, how we regulate the Internet and online defamation. While at the UQ, Brydon also taught Responsible Data Science into the Master of Data Science course. His PhD thesis was on the 'Role of Trustworthiness in Automated Decision-making Systems and the Law' and he received the Faculty of Business and Law Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis for 2022.
As an advocate for Diversity and Inclusion, Brydon was instrumental in developing the strategy & submission for Allens for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for 2015 and 2016, when Allens emerged as the top law firm in Workplace Equality. He advocates for better access to parental leave and affordable early childhood education. Brydon was part of the 2022 roundtable discussion with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and MP Amanda Rishworth, which led to some of the most significant changes to parental leave. Brydon has close to a decade of experience on not-for-profit boards and was on the National Executive Committee of the Asian Australian Lawyers Association. He was the recipient of the 2022 UQ Faculty Award for Excellence for Citizenship - Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and national finalist in the 2014 Australian Law Awards.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Trustworthy AI, Data Governance, Privacy Law, Building Regulation, VLFS, Buoyant Urbanism, Offshore Development, Floating Cities
Research field
Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) (Monash University)
- Master of Public Policy and Management (Monash University)
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (Australian National University)
- Bachelor of Architecture (Hon.) (University of Melbourne)
- Bachelor of Planning and Design (University of Melbourne)
Teaching
Brydon has interdisciplinary expertise and has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the areas of Data and Technology, Regulation and Smart Cities:
- LLB250 Law, Privacy and Data Ethics
- LLB345 Regulating the Internet
- LLH201 Legal Research
- LLH401 Legal Research Capstone
At a different institution:
- DATA7002 Responsible Data Science
- LAWS1702 Principles of Contractual Liability
- Research studios on: (1) Surveillance, Smart Cities and the Sensorised Building; (2) The Automated City; (3) Floating Cities: Buoyant Urbanism, Ecological Engineering and Marine Utopian Proposals
- ARCH7031 Architecture Practice: Business Management
Brydon has also supervised students in:
- LLH473 Independent Research Project
- LLH479 Research Thesis Extension
Experience
In his previous role as a technology and construction lawyer, Brydon has advised:
- GoldLinQ Consortium as Operator Franchisee on contract administration of both Stages 1 and 2 of the Gold Coast Rapid Transport project;
- Snowy Hydro in updating its suite of construction and service agreements;
- a bidder on the Cross River Rail project in preparing bid documents;
- the Qld State Government in relation to the $500m Government Wireless Network (Brydon has also advised the NSW State Government in relation to the Government Radio Network);
- Acciona in relation to the preparation and drafting of a turbine supply agreement for Mt Gellibrand Wind Farm;
- Lyon Solar in relation to Cape York, Nowingi and Riverland solar projects;
- Transurban on the preparation and drafting of its tollway technology contracts (Brydon was subsequently seconded to Transurban for 6 months);
- Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) on various aspects of its network business, including Data Retention laws, access to Telecommunications data under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, VoWiFi and M2M communications;
- Westpac in relation to digital currencies;
- Google in relation to carriage service provider and internet service provider requirements;
- Samsung Electronics Australia in relation to is application development and content licensing agreements for mobile devices; and
- NBN on a raft of corporate governance matters including the application of the NBN Co Act to various strategies, the Protective Security Policy Framework, Public Interest Disclosures, notifications under the Equity Funding Agreement and the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act and Rule.
Publications
- Wang, B. & Wang, C. (2021). Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact. Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211140
- Burdon, M. & Wang, B. (2021). Implementing COVIDSafe: The Role of Trustworthiness and Information Privacy Law. Law, Technology and Humans, 3(1), 35–50. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211079
- Wang, B. & Burdon, M. (2021). Augmenting Superintendent Discretion: Trustworthiness and the Automation of Construction Contracts. ANU Journal of Law and Technology, 2(1), 119–149. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211081
- Wang, B. & Burdon, M. (2021). Automating trustworthiness in digital twins. In Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (pp. 345–365). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202347
- Wang, B., (2021). The Seductive Smart City and the Benevolent Role of Transparency. Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 48, 100–121. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211137
- Wang, C. & Wang, B. (2020). Floating solutions for challenges facing humanity. ICSCEA 2019: Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2, 3–29. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202346
- Wang, B., (2021). The machine metropolis: Introduction to the automated city. In Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (pp. 1–21). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202344
- Wang, B. & Rimmer, M. (2021). 3D printing and housing: Intellectual property and construction law. In BT. Wang & CM. Wang (Eds.), Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (pp. 113–140). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/134054
- Wang, B., (2018). Addressing financial fragility in the construction industry through the blockchain and smart construction contracts. Australian Construction Law Newsletter, 30, 116–123. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131442
- Wang, B., (2019). Floating cities: The future or a washed-up idea? The Conversation. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202345
QUT ePrints
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