Professor Angela Daly

Professor of Law

School of Law and Justice

Career Summary

Biography

Prof Angela Daly PhD FAcSS SFHEA is an international leader in the regulation and governance of data and digital technologies, and in research, knowledge exchange and university governance.

She is Professor of Law in the School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle. She was previously Professor of Law & Technology in the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) and Dundee Law School in the University of Dundee (Scotland) where she maintains a visiting position. In 2023-2024 she led a University of Dundee team in an independent review of UKRI ESRC's research data policy, commissioned by the ESRC. In 2022-23 she was the chair of an Independent Expert Group for the Scottish Government on Unlocking the Value of Public Sector Data for Public Benefit.

She has previously worked at the University of Strathclyde (where she was Associate Dean for Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Queensland University of Technology and Swinburne University of Technology. She currently holds a visiting professorship at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), and has held previous visiting/adjunct positions at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), the Universities of Bologna, Macerata and Milan (Italy), Magdalen College, University of Oxford (UK) and Tilburg University (Netherlands).  

Her most prominent publications are:

Professor Daly is legal editor of the open access interdisciplinary Internet Policy Review journal, reviews for a number of journals and academic presses in law and other disciplines, and is a member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Peer Review College.

Professor Daly has extensive knowledge exchange experience. She has consulted to and advised international organisations, government agencies, not-for-profits and private sector actors on matters relevant to her research including data protection, human rights, antitrust/competition law and intellectual property.

At UoN she teaches Cybercrime, Evidence Law and Health Law, and coordinates the Advanced Legal Research and Special Interest Project courses in the School of Law and Justice.

Keywords

  • information law
  • law and technology
  • socio-legal studies

Languages

  • English (Mother)
  • French (Fluent)
  • Italian (Fluent)
  • Spanish (Working)
  • Portuguese (Working)

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
480408 Law, science and technology 50
480405 Law and society and socio-legal research 25
480603 Intellectual property law 25

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Professor of Law University of Newcastle
School of Law and Justice
Australia
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 Athique A, 'Digital transactions in Asia: Economic, informational, and social exchanges', 1-308 (2019)
DOI 10.4324/9780429425110
2016 Daly A, 'Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind The Gap', 1-162 (2016)
DOI 10.5040/9781509900664

Chapter (13 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Ali SM, Paragi B, Daly AC, Gjorgjioska A, Hespanhol L, Kerasidou X, Mostéfaoui SK, Oyeniji O, Tomicic A, 'The (Un)bearable Whiteness of AI Ethics', 218-231 (2024)
DOI 10.4337/9781803926728.00020
2022 Daly A, 'Medical 3D printing, intellectual property, and regulation', 385-398 (2022)
DOI 10.1016/B978-0-323-89831-7.00014-6
2021 Daly A, Hagendorff T, Hui L, Mann M, Marda V, Wagner B, Wang WW, 'AI, Governance and Ethics: Global Perspectives', 182-201 (2021)
DOI 10.1017/9781108914857.010
2021 Fan A, Daly A, 'Collaborative writing in the classroom', 56-60 (2021)
2021 Fan AYH, Daly A, Pushkarna N, 'How internationalization at home through digitalization subverts the traditional classroom and creates students-as-producers: A case study of a law course in Hong Kong', 117-155 (2021)
2021 Daly A, Devitt SK, Mann M, 'AI ethics needs good data', 103-122 (2021)
DOI 10.16997/book55.g
2019 Daly A, Lu J, Heemsbergen L, 'Another dimension of digital: 3D printing and intellectual property in Asia', 104-118 (2019)
2019 Daly A, 'Don't believe the hype? Recent 3D printing developments for law and society', 347-360 (2019)
2018 Daly A, Archbold C, 'Energy democracy, renewables and the Paris agreement', 427-447 (2018)
DOI 10.1007/978-981-13-2155-9_16
2018 Daly A, Carlson A, van Geelen TV, 'Data and fundamental rights', 378-407 (2018)
2017 Daly A, 'Covering up: American and European legal approaches to public facial anonymity after SAS v. France', 164-183 (2017)
2017 Timan T, Newell B, Koops B-J, Daly A, 'Chapter 7: Covering up: American and European legal approaches to public facial anonymity after SAS v. France' (2017)
DOI 10.4337/9781786435408.00014
2015 Daly A, 'Chapter 15: Legislating on biopiracy in Europe: too little, too late?', 365-381 (2015)
DOI 10.4337/9781781955901.00026
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Conference (4 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2025 Adu-Amankwa K, Rentizelas A, Daly A, Corney J, Wodehouse A, 'Collaborative Project Risks when dealing with Supply Chain Actors handling Contractual Intellectual Property for Additive Manufacturing Applications', IFAC Papersonline, 59, 2262-2267 (2025) [E1]
DOI 10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.09.380
2024 Adu-Amankwa K, Wodehouse A, Daly A, Rentizelas A, Corney J, 'Trading Digital-Valued Assets Within Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Supply Chains: A Scoping Review of Additive Manufacturing and Digital Trade', IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 729 IFIP, 91-104 (2024)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-65894-5_7
2023 Adu-Amankwa K, Rentizelas A, Daly A, Corney J, Wodehouse A, Peron M, 'Decision Considerations for Securing and Managing Intellectual Property within Additive Manufacturing Supply Chains', IFAC Papersonline, 56, 6543-6548 (2023)
DOI 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.304
2022 Ludvigsen KR, Nagaraja S, Daly A, 'Preventing or Mitigating Adversarial Supply Chain Attacks: A Legal Analysis', Scored 2022 Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Workshop on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses Co Located with Ccs 2022, 25-34 (2022)
DOI 10.1145/3560835.3564552
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Journal article (26 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2025 Morley J, Kerasidou X, Kerasidou A, Sekalala S, Daly A, 'Beyond techno-optimism: four critical limitations in the UK’s AI policy for health care', British Journal of General Practice, 75, 421-424 (2025) [C1]
DOI 10.3399/BJGP.2025.0268
2025 Mentzou A, Rogers A, Carvalho E, Daly A, Malone M, Kerasidou X, 'Artificial Intelligence in Digital Self-Diagnosis Tools: A Narrative Overview of Reviews', Mayo Clinic Proceedings Digital Health, 3 (2025) [C1]
DOI 10.1016/j.mcpdig.2025.100242
2024 Callari TC, Vecellio Segate R, Hubbard EM, Daly A, Lohse N, 'An ethical framework for human-robot collaboration for the future people-centric manufacturing: A collaborative endeavour with European subject-matter experts in ethics', Technology in Society, 78 (2024)
DOI 10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102680
2024 Shulz S, O’neil M, Broca S, Daly A, 'Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies', Triplec, 22, 348-365 (2024)
DOI 10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1456
2024 Vecellio Segate R, Daly A, 'Encoding the Enforcement of Safety Standards into Smart Robots to Harness Their Computing Sophistication and Collaborative Potential: A Legal Risk Assessment for European Union Policymakers', European Journal of Risk Regulation, 15, 665-704 (2024)
DOI 10.1017/err.2023.72
2023 Kerasidou C, Malone M, Daly A, Tava F, 'Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare', Journal of Medical Ethics, 49, 838-843 (2023)
DOI 10.1136/jme-2022-108696
2023 Adu-Amankwa K, Daly A, 'Securing innovation in digital manufacturing supply chains: an interdisciplinary perspective on intellectual property, technological protection measures and 3D printing/additive manufacturing', Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 18, 587-602 (2023)
DOI 10.1093/jiplp/jpad062
2022 Ludvigsen K, Nagaraja S, Daly A, 'When is Software a Medical Device? Understanding and Determining the “Intention” and Requirements for Software as a Medical Device in European Union Law', European Journal of Risk Regulation, 13, 78-93 (2022)
DOI 10.1017/err.2021.45
2022 Pushkarna N, Daly A, Fan A, 'Teaching digital and global law for digital and global students: creating students as producers in a Hong Kong Internet Law class', Law Teacher, 56, 404-419 (2022)
DOI 10.1080/03069400.2021.1953827
2021 Daly A, Mann M, Squires P, Walters R, '3D printing, policing and crime', Policing and Society, 31, 37-51 (2021)
DOI 10.1080/10439463.2020.1730835
2020 Mann M, Daly A, 'Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance', Internet Policy Review, 9, 1-10 (2020)
DOI 10.14763/2020.3.1501
2020 Mann M, Daly A, Molnar A, 'Regulatory arbitrage and transnational surveillance: australia’s extraterritorial assistance to access encrypted communications', Internet Policy Review, 9, 1-20 (2020)
DOI 10.14763/2020.3.1499
2020 Birtchnell T, Daly A, Heemsbergen L, 'Digital swadeshi and 3D printing intellectual property in India: The multi-level perspective, causal layered analysis and backcasting', Futures, 122 (2020)
DOI 10.1016/j.futures.2020.102596
2020 Bennett B, Daly A, 'Recognising rights for robots: Can we? Will we? Should we?', Law Innovation and Technology, 12, 60-80 (2020) [C1]

This article considers the law's response to the emergence of robots and artificial intelligence (AI), and whether they should be considered as legal persons and a... [more]

This article considers the law's response to the emergence of robots and artificial intelligence (AI), and whether they should be considered as legal persons and accordingly the bearers of legal rights. We analyse the regulatory issues raised by robot rights through three questions: (i) could robots be granted rights? (ii) will robots be granted rights? and (iii) should robots be granted rights? On the question of whether we can recognise robot rights we examine how the law has treated different categories of legal persons and non-persons historically, finding that the concept of legal personhood is fluid and so arguably could be extended to include robots. However, as can be seen from the current debate in Intellectual Property (IP) law, AI and robots have not been recognised as the bearers of IP rights despite their ability to create and innovate, suggesting that the answer to the question of whether we will grant rights to robots is less certain. Finally, whether we should recognise rights for robots will depend on the intended purpose of regulatory reform.

DOI 10.1080/17579961.2020.1727063
Citations Scopus - 35
Co-authors Belinda Bennett
2019 Heemsbergen L, Daly A, Lu J, Birtchnell T, '3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?', Science Technology and Society, 24, 254-270 (2019)
DOI 10.1177/0971721819841970
2019 Mann M, Daly A, '(Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism', Television and New Media, 20, 379-395 (2019)
DOI 10.1177/1527476418806091
2018 Singh J, Powles J, Daly A, 'CLAW 2018 - Chairs' message: Fourth workshop on legal and technical issues in cloud and pervasive computing (IoT)', Ubicomp Iswc 2018 Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 878-879 (2018)
DOI 10.1145/3267305.3274148
2018 Daly A, 'The introduction of data breach notification legislation in Australia: A comparative view', Computer Law and Security Review, 34, 477-495 (2018)
DOI 10.1016/j.clsr.2018.01.005
2018 Vivanti A, Daly A, 'Important privacy considerations with electronic health record documentation', Nutrition Dietetics the Journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia, 75, 337-338 (2018)
DOI 10.1111/1747-0080.12390
2018 Mann M, Daly A, Wilson M, Suzor N, 'The limits of (digital) constitutionalism: Exploring the privacy-security (im)balance in Australia', International Communication Gazette, 80, 369-384 (2018)
DOI 10.1177/1748048518757141
2017 Heemsbergen L, Daly A, 'Leaking boats and borders: The virtu of surveilling Australia’s refugee population', Surveillance and Society, 15, 389-396 (2017)
DOI 10.24908/ss.v15i3/4.6629
2017 Daly A, 'Privacy in automation: An appraisal of the emerging Australian approach', Computer Law and Security Review, 33, 836-846 (2017)
DOI 10.1016/j.clsr.2017.05.009
2017 Daly A, 'Beyond ‘hipster antitrust’: A critical perspective on the european commission’s google decision', European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, 1, 188-192 (2017)
DOI 10.21552/core/2017/3/4
2017 Daly A, Scardamaglia A, 'Profiling the Australian Google Consumer: Implications of Search Engine Practices for Consumer Law and Policy', Journal of Consumer Policy, 40, 299-320 (2017)
DOI 10.1007/s10603-017-9349-9
2017 Daly A, Thomas J, 'Australian internet policy', Internet Policy Review, 6 (2017)
DOI 10.14763/2017.1.457
2016 Scardamaglia A, Daly A, 'Google, online search and consumer confusion in Australia', International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 24, 203-228 (2016)
DOI 10.1093/ijlit/eaw004
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Other (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2026 Daly A, 'Response to UK Home Office consultation on a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies' (2026)

Presentation (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2026 Daly A, 'Big Tech, Regulation and the European Union' (2026)
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Professor Angela Daly

Position

Professor of Law
School of Law and Justice
College of Human and Social Futures

Contact Details

Email angela.daly@newcastle.edu.au
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