Eliza Mik

Dr Eliza Mik has joined the Faculty of Law in January 2021. Prior to that she was researching and teaching at the Singapore Management University from January 2010 until December 2018, and then at Melbourne Law School throughout 2019. Before joining academia, she worked in-house for a number of software and telecommunications companies in Australia, Poland, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. She advised on software licensing, technology procurement, digital signatures, and e-commerce regulation.

Her PhD focused on the private law aspects of e-commerce and on general problems of transaction automation. From 2014, she has actively researched smart contracts and blockchains, with a special emphasis on the legal prerequisites of their successful implementation in mainstream commerce. Eliza has advised the World Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. At present, she is a member of the UNCITRAL Expert Group for the Digital Economy, a member of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform on ODR (iGLIP, Hong Kong), a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Society and Technology (TILT, Netherlands) and an Affiliate Researcher with the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne (CAIDE, Australia).

Education

• 2007 PhD (Law), University of Sydney
• 2003 Master of Laws, University of Sydney
• 1994-1997 Master of Laws, University of Warsaw
• 1994-1995 Diploma in English and European Law, British Centre for English and European Legal Studies

Research Interests

• Information Technology Law
• Contract Law
• Legal Technologies
• Smart Contracts
• Transaction Automation

Publications

Book Chapters (single authored)

• ‘AI as a Legal Entity” – chapter in “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property,” edited by Kung-Chung Liu, Jyh-An Lee and Reto Hilti, (Oxford University Press 2021)
• ‘The Resilience of Contract Law in Light of Technological Change’ – chapter in ‘The Future of the Law of Contract Law,’ edited by M Furmston, (Routledge, 2020)
• ‘Blockchains as Transacting Platforms?’ – chapter in ‘Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms,’ edited by Larry A. diMatteo, Michael Cannarsa, Cristina Poncibo (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• ‘Legal and Regulatory Challenges to Facilitating E-Commerce in the ASEAN’ – chapter in ‘ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order: Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms,’ edited by Bryan Mercurio and Pasha Hsieh (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• ‘Contract Formation’ – sections in chapter in ‘The Law of Contract (Butterworths Common Law Series)’ 5th-6th Ed (Lexis Nexis Butterworths 2017)
• ‘Persuasive Technologies – From Loss of Privacy to Loss of Autonomy’ – in ‘Private Law in the 21st Century,’ Kit Barker, Karen Fairweather, Ross Grantham, eds. (Hart Publishing, 2017)
• ‘Problems of Intention and Consideration in Online Transactions’ – in ‘Contract Formation – Law and Practice’ by M Furmston, G Tolhurst, 2nd Ed (Oxford University Press 2016)
• ‘E-commerce Regulation: Necessity, Futility, Disconnect’– in First International Conference on Technologies and Law, Conference Proceedings, I. Portela, et al eds., (2013 Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Barcelos)
• ‘Contract Formation On-Line’ – in ‘Contract Formation – Law and Practice’ by M Furmston, G Tolhurst, (Oxford University Press 2010)