Researchers

William Renton

Scott Barnes
Member of the Billing Working Group for the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code review
A former network administrator, Scott Barnes has recently completed the Master of Administrative Law and Policy program at the University of Sydney and is currently a researcher at the Communications Law Centre, UTS (CLC).
His interests lie primarily in telecommunications regulation and he has made submissions to government inquiries on subjects ranging from anti-siphoning to the National Broadband Network. Prior to joining the CLC, Scott was an intern for Commissioner Deborah Tate at the United States Federal Communications Commission and he holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. and a B.A. with majors in Philosophy and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Christina Daher
Currently studying a Bachelor of Art in Communication and Law at UTS. Her research at the Communications Law Centre has covered a range of interests. She has assisted researching projects such as the “cash for comment” case and Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) guidelines, issues dealing with cybercrime, case studies to assist the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA) in the guidelines for artists and galleries about censorship as well as currently looking more closely at copyright in Australia.
Christina aspires to make her mark in law reform in Australia. 

Brett Watson
Currently studying the combined Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Journalism) and Bachelor of Laws at UTS. 
He has reviewed copyright submissions made to Government and researched corresponding areas of copyright law over the last twenty years in Australia, as well as contributing to the CLC submission to the Federal Senate inquiry into the reporting of sports news and conducted preliminary research into the relationship between internet piracy prevention and Australian privacy law.
The specific ares of media law that Brett is interested in are defamation, contemp and privacy, and in particular the ways in which new media interact with these legal principles.