Ms Karen Lee
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
BA, JD (Indiana); PostGradDip (King’s College, University of London); Solicitor of England and Wales; Attorney-at-Law (Illinois), Lawyer (NSW).
Contact
| Email: | karen.lee@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W038 LG11 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3601 (or +61 2 6773 3601 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Prior to joining the law faculty, Karen worked for Denton Wilde Sapte (London) in its TMT practice, where she specialised in telecommunications regulation (1996–2003). She was seconded to the Office of Telecommunications in 1998–1999 and to the Department of Trade and Industry in 2002. She is a former Senior Managing Editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal (1995–1996) and has lectured on the University of London LLM Telecommunications Law Option.
Karen’s research focuses on communications law and regulation, including communications network (or platform) issues and content, and the inter-play between competition law and regulation. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales and is researching self-regulatory rule making in the Australian telecommunications sector.
Karen teaches Conflict of Laws, Administrative Law and Introduction to Business Law.
Publications and Research
Book Chapters
- Co-author with Jamison Prime, 'US Telecommunications Law' in Ian Walden (ed), Telecommunications Law and Regulation (3rd ed, 2009) (81 pages).
- Co-author with Jamison Prime, ‘Overview of US Telecommunications Regulation’ in Ian Walden and John Angel (eds), Telecommunications Law and Regulation (2nd ed, 2005) (86 pages).
- Co-author with Jamison Prime, ‘Overview of US Telecommunications Regulation’ in Ian Walden and John Angel (eds), Telecommunications Law (1st ed, 2001) (32 pages).
Refereed journal articles
- 'Counting the Casualties of Telecom: The Adoption of Part 6 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth)' (2009) 37 Federal Law Review 41 (28 pages).
- ‘Public Engagement and the Installation of Wireless Facilities Exempt from Local Planning Requirements’ (2007) 13 Local Government Law Journal 131(31 pages).
- ‘Creating a Level Playing Field or Expanding the Nanny State? Regulating the Content of Premium Rate SMS/MMS and Walled-Garden Services in Australia’ (2006) 11(2) Media and Arts Law Review 99 (30 pages).
- ‘Co-operative Standard-Setting: The Road to Compatibility or Deadlock? The NAFTA's Transformation of the Telecommunications Industry’ (1996) 48 Federal Communications Law Journal 487 (23 pages).
Invited articles and case notes
- 'Achieving Network Neutrality: Maintaining Competition Between Content and Application Providers' (2009) 17 Trade Practices Law Journal 133 (5 pages).
Non-refereed articles and case notes
- ‘Farmers: What Do You Own? Are Environmental Regulations Changing the Nature of Land Rights?’ in Book 3 On Farming and Environmental Rules and On Agricultural Supply Chains of the AgLaw Papers 2004 (31 pages).
- ‘The Roaming Condition: Victory (At Last) For New Entrants’ (1999) 17(10) International Media Law 73 (4 pages).
- ‘ACLU v. Reno: An Endorsement of Internet Self-Regulation?’ (1998) 9 King's College Law Journal 147 (4 pages).
Non-refereed conference and seminar papers
- ‘A Kick in the Backside’: The Adoption of Part 6 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth). This paper was given at the 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference held on 21–23 September 2007 at the School of Law, University of New England.
- ‘Self-Regulation, Public Engagement and the Installation of Wireless Facilities Exempt from Local Planning Requirements’. This paper was presented as part of the Macquarie Law seminar series 2007 A Place at the Table: Regulation Reconceived on 7 June 2007.
- ‘Creating a Level Playing Field or Expanding the Nanny State? Regulating the Content of Premium Rate SMS/MMS and Walled-Garden Services in Australia'. This was presented at the MediaCommLaw 2005 conference hosted by the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University of Melbourne on 1-2 December 2005.
Other
- Member of ACMA’s specialist expert resource list in the areas of rural and remote issues, October 2006 to present.
- Submission dated 9 September 2005 to the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee on the Telstra (Transition to Full Private Ownership) Bill 2005 and Related Bills.
- Presentation entitled “Universal Service and Broadband: Telstra’s Obligations post-T3” to an open public meeting organised by the Australian National Party (Armidale), 20 April 2005.
- Co-author with Nicholas Higham, Spectrum Trading, An Overview of Developments in the UK, Denton Wilde Sapte client briefing, August 2001 (12 pages).
- Senior Managing Editor, Federal Communications Law Journal, August 1995-May 1996.
Grants
- $10,000 Research Encouragement Award, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of UNE, February 2006.