Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 4920
f: +61 2 9514 4908
Location
AustLII
Level 12, Building 10
235 Jones Street
Ultimo NSW 2007
Room# CB10.12.203
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Mailing Address
AustLII
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Computerised Legal Research
- AustLII and WorldLII
› Computerisation of Law
- Technical and Policy Issues
Current Teaching
70105 Legal Research
Academic Profile
Philip Chung is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney, with honours in Computer Science and Operations Research. He joined Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) initially in 1996 and has been its Executive Director since 1998. Philip manages the staff and resources of AustLII and jointly oversees the technical development of AustLII's projects and system administration.
In addition to his responsibilities as Executive Director, Philip manages AustLII's primary legal materials, and has developed most of the facilities to automate the receipt and processing of cases and other materials. He is experienced in large scale legal publishing on the Internet, computer legal applications and automated text processing.
For many years, Philip has also taught and been the academic co-ordinator of the Faculty's threshold subject, Legal Research.
Philip is also a Visiting Fellow, Law, UNSW; a Research Associate, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW; a Board Member, Diplomacy Training Program (DTP), UNSW Management Committee and a Member, Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRC), UNSW
Current Research Activities
Investigator in the Unlocking IP research project
Project Manager, ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment Grant entitled "WorldLII - Australia's leading role in global legal research infrastructure (Stage 3)"
2006-07 - AusAID PSLP Grant - AsianLII (with A Mowbray and G Greenleaf)
Recent Publications & Journal Articles
"What was the law at that point in time?" pgs 2-4 NSW Law Society Journal, May 2005 (with Wittfoth W, Greenleaf G and Mowbray A)
"Responding to the fragmentation of international law - WorldLII's International courts & Tribunals Project" Canadian Law Library Review 2005, Vol 30(1), 13-21, ISSN: 1180-176X (with Greenleaf G and Mowbray A)
"Can one size fit all?: AustLII's point-in-time legislation project", 2004(6) UTS Law Review 119-133 (with Wittfoth W, Mowbray A and Greenleaf G)
"The Australian Treaties Library 1901-2003: The 'fifth pillar' of treaties reform", 2004(6) UTS Law Review 145-155 (with Davis M, Greenleaf G and Kwok J)
"A new home online for Commonwealth law: A proposal for a CommonLII", 2004(2) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) (with Greenleaf G and Mowbray A)