ProfessorKimberlee Weatherall

BA LLB (Hons) (Sydney) BCL (Hons) (Oxf) LLM (Yale)

Kimberlee is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and Co-Director of the University of Sydney's Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. She is a Fellow at the Gradient Institute, a research institute developing ethical AI, and was in 2024 a member of the Commonwealth Government's Temporary AI Expert Group.

She researches chiefly in the area of technology regulation (with a focus on AI), and has extensive experience in conducting and leading interdisciplinary research, requiring the building and integration of understanding as between philosophy, data science, law, and the social sciences. Much of her externally funded research has involved partners from government and industry, and thus has experience in bringing large, collaborative projects involving multiple researchers and multiple partners projects to successful fruition. Her current work focuses on regulation of AI and automated decision-making, and the use of LLM-based agents for policy simulation.

Professor Weatherall also has an extensive background in intellectual property research. Her recent chapter deals with some of the questions that arise around copyright in the context of generative AI; she is also part of an ARC-funded project on the ownership and dissemination of university research. She was a co-host ofIP Provocations, a podcastseries asking challenging questions about IP law.