Dr. Monika Zalnieriute is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at UNSW Sydney. Monika’s research explores the interplay between law, technology, and politics, and focuses on automated decision-making, Internet policy, data privacy and discrimination law, and human rights in the digital age. Her work also addresses intersections among feminist and decolonial theories and LGBTI rights.
Monika holds a PhD in Law from European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Previously, Monika led a research stream on ‘Technologies and Rule of Law’ at the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at UNSW Law Sydney, and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne, where she worked on the digital rights and discrimination of marginalized groups online. Monika believes that research only matters if it has a strong and tangible impact well beyond academia; and is actively engaged both within academic, civil society and policy-making circles. She is a founding Director of a researched-based advocacy organization ‘ZEPHIRO: Progressive Platform for Human Rights’ in Vilnius, Lithuania, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Media, Data and Society and Central European University in Hungary. Monika’s work has influenced policy at the National Transport Commission in Australia, Council of Europe, ICANN, Privacy International, European Parliament and the WHO. Her work also appear in international media outlets, such as BBC and The Guardian.
Monika has published widely in leading outlets, such as the Modern Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, American Journal of International Law, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Harvard Business Law Review, among others.
Journal articles
Zalnieriute M; Churches G, 2021, 'Rejecting the Transatlantic Outsourcing of Data Protection in the Face of Unrestrained Surveillance', Cambridge Law Journal, vol. 80, pp. 8 - 11
Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'Google LLC vs Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)', American Journal of International Law, vol. 114, pp. 261 - 267, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3516337;%20http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2020.5
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2020, '“Contracting Out” Human Rights in International Law: Schrems II and the Fundamental Flaws of U.S. Surveillance Law', Harvard International Law Journal, https://harvardilj.org/2020/08/contracting-out-human-rights-in-international-law-schrems-ii-and-the-fundamental-flaws-of-u-s-surveillance-law/
Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L; Williams G, 2020, '法治与政府决策自动化 (Rule of Law and Automation in Government Decision-Making)', 理论月刊 (Theory Monthly), vol. 11, pp. 119 - 131, http://www.hbskw.com/dzzz?name=llyk
Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'The Future of Data Retention Regime in the EU After Qadrature Du Net and Privacy International Judgments', American Society of International Law Insights, vol. 24, https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/24/issue/28/future-data-retention-regimes-and-national-security-eu-after-quadrature
Zalnieriute M; Churches G, 2020, 'When a ‘Like’ is not a ‘Like’: A New Fragmented Approach to Data Controllership', The Modern Law Review, pp. 1 - 27, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2230.12537
Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'Human Rights Rhetoric in Global Internet Governance: New ICANN Bylaw on Human Rights', Harvard Business Law Review, vol. 10, pp. 1 - 40, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=3532991
Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'Beyond the Governance Gap in International Domain Name Law: Bringing the UDRP in Line with Internationally Recognized Human Rights,', Stanford Journal of International Law, vol. 56, pp. 79 - 122, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=3532799
Zalnieriute M; Weiss C, 2020, 'Reconceptualizing Intersectionality in Judicial Interpretation: Moving Beyond Formalistic Accounts of Discrimination on Islamic Covering Prohibitions', Berkeley Journal of Gender Law and Justice, pp. 1 - 30, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=3514948
Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'Reinvigorating Human Rights in Internet Governance: The UDRP Procedure Through the Lens of International Human Rights Principles', Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, vol. 43, pp. 197 - 235, https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/article/view/4741
Zalnieriute M, 2019, 'Digital rights of LGBTI communities: a roadmap for a dual human rights framework', , pp. 411 - 434, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785367724.00030
Zalnieriute M; Moses LB; Williams G, 2019, 'The rule of law and automation of government decision-making', Modern Law Review, vol. 82, pp. 425 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12412
Zalnieriute M; Milan S, 2019, 'Internet Architecture and Human Rights: Beyond the Human Rights Gap', Policy and Internet, vol. 11, pp. 6 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poi3.200
Zalnieriute M, 2019, 'From Human Rights Aspirations to Enforceable Obligations by Non-State Actors in the Digital Age: The Case of Internet Governance and ICANN', Yale Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 21, pp. 278 - 336, https://yjolt.org/human-rights-aspirations-enforceable-obligations-non-state-actors-digital-age-case-internet
Zalnieriute M, 2018, 'Developing a European Standard for International Data Transfers after Snowden: Opinion 1/15 on the EU‐Canada PNR Agreement', Modern Law Review, vol. 81, pp. 1046 - 1063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12378
Zalnieriute M, 2016, 'The promise and potential of transgovernmental cooperation on the international data privacy agenda: Communicative action, deliberative capacity and their limits', Computer Law and Security Review, vol. 32, pp. 31 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2015.12.008
Zalnieriute M, 2015, 'An international constitutional moment for data privacy in the times of mass-surveillance', International Journal of Law and Information Technology, vol. 23, pp. 99 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eav005
Zalnieriute M, 2015, 'Internet Privacy Rights: Rights to Protect Autonomy', COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW, vol. 31, pp. 312 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2015.01.012
Zalnieriute M, 2015, 'Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Comparative Perspectives', COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW, vol. 31, pp. 157 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2014.12.002
Zalnieriute M, 2014, 'Transborder Data Flows and Data Privacy Law', COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW, vol. 30, pp. 104 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2013.12.003
Zalnieriute M, 2013, 'The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies', COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW, vol. 29, pp. 472 - 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2013.05.008
Zalnieriute M, 2013, 'Blanket criminal record data disclosure system incompatible with privacy rights', International Data Privacy Law, vol. 3, pp. 197 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipt012
Zalnieriute M, 2013, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art.', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, vol. 24, pp. 987 - 991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/cht058
Zalnieriute M, 2013, 'Market Integration Through Data Protection: An Analysis of the Insurance and Financial Industries in the EU', INTERNATIONAL DATA PRIVACY LAW, vol. 3, pp. 215 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipt008
Bhathela N; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M; Clarke R; Manwaring K; Bowrey K; Bell F; Kearnes M, 'Response to ‘Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Leadership’ White Paper Consultation', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3352329
Zalnieriute M; Churches G, 'When a ‘Like’ Is not a ‘Like’: A New Fragmented Approach to Data Controllership', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3533004
Media
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2020, A Window for Change: Why the Australian Metadata Retention Scheme Lags Behind the EU and USA, https://auspublaw.org/2020/02/a-window-for-change-why-the-australian-metadata-retention-scheme-lags-behind-the-eu-and-usa/
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2020, The Instrumentality of Metadata Access Regime for Suppressing Political Protests in Australia, http://www.iconnectblog.com/2020/08/the-instrumentality-of-metadata-access-regime-for-suppressing-political-protests-in-australia/
Zalnieriute M, 2020, Due Process in Adjudication of Domain Names and Trademarks: Why the UDRP Procedure Has to Change, Oxford University, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2020/02/due-process-adjudication-domain-names-and-trademarks-why-udrp
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2020, A Groundhog Day in Brussels: Schrems II and International Data Transfers, https://verfassungsblog.de/a-groundhog-day-in-bruessels/
Zalnieriute M, 2019, Why the coalition blinked on the facial recognition database, Australian Financial Review, https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/why-the-coalition-blinked-on-the-facial-recognition-database-20191025-p5347j
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Unlawful Metadata Access Is Easy When We’re Flogging a Dead Law, http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20191211-unlawful-metadata-access-is-easy-when-we-re-flogging-a-dead-law?page=0,0
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Unlawful metadata access is easy when we're flogging a dead law, https://techxplore.com/news/2019-12-unlawful-metadata-access-easy-flogging.html
Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Unlawful metadata access is easy when we’re flogging a dead law, https://theconversation.com/unlawful-metadata-access-is-easy-when-were-flogging-a-dead-law-127621
Zalnieriute M, 2019, To Forget, But Not Forgive: Why the CJEU’s Latest Ruling on Google and the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ is Not at All a Win for US Tech Giants, European Journal of International Law, http://www.ejiltalk.org/to-forget-but-not-forgive-why-the-cjeus-latest-ruling-on-google-and-the-right-to-be-forgotten-is-not-at-all-a-win-for-us-tech-giants/
Zalnieriute M, 2019, Technology, Private Companies and Human Rights: Why the Current International Legal Framework Isn’t Enough, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2019/11/technology-private-companies-and-human-rights-why-current
Book Chapters
Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L; Williams G, 2020, 'Automating Government Decision-Making: Implications for the Rule of Law’', in Technology, Innovation and Access to Justice Dialogues on the Future of Law, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 91 - 111
Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'Law and Technology in the Dimension of Time', in Ranchordas S; Roznai Y (ed.), Time, Law, and Change An Interdisciplinary Study, Hart, Oxford, pp. 303 - 326
Zalnieriute M; Bell F, 2020, 'Technology and the Judicial Role', in Appleby G; Lynch A (ed.), The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court: Individual, Collegial and Institutional Judicial Dynamics in Australia, pp. 1 - 22, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3492868
Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M, 2020, 'Law and Technology in the Dimension of Time', in Ranchordas S; Roznai Y (ed.), Time, Law and Change: An Interdisciplinary Study, Hart Publishing, pp. 303 - 326, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3461408
Zalnieriute M; Burton L; Boughey J; Bennett Moses L; Logan S, 2019, 'From the Rule of Law to Statue Drafting: Legal Issues for Algorithms in Government Decision-Making', in Woodrow Barfield (ed.) Cambridge Handbook on Law and Algorithms, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2019, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3380072
Zalnieriute M, 2019, 'Digital Rights Of LGBTI Communities: A Roadmap For A Dual Human Rights Framework', in Wagner B; Kettemann MC; Vieth K (ed.), Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology Global Politics, Law and International Relations, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 411 - 434, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785367724
Zalnieriute M, 2017, 'The anatomy of neoliberal Internet governance: A queer critical political economy perspective', in Otto D (ed.), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks, pp. 53 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315266787
Reports
Bennett Moses L; Churches G; Zalnieriute M; Byrnes A; Scully J; Kemp K; Greenleaf G, 2020, COVIDSafe App - Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3595109
Zalnieriute M, 2019, Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council Inquiry into New and Emerging Technologies, http://ssrn.com/abstract=3470951
Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L; Williams G, 2019, Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee’s Inquiry into Centrelink's Compliance Program, https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Centrelinkcompliance/Submissions
Bennett Moses L; Arcot Ananth SN; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Submission into the Inquiry into Victorian Anti-Vilification Laws, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=3531349
Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L; Boughey J; Burton L; Bhathela N, 2019, Submission to the OHCHR Thematic Report to the United Nations General Assembly on Digital Technology, Social Protection and Human Rights
Watson E; Churches G; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy Submission to the Department of Home Affairs, https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/reports-and-pubs/files/cyber-strategy-2020/submission-37.pdf
Zalnieriute M; Gould-Fensom O, 2019, Artificial Intelligence: Australia’s Ethics Framework Submission to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3399276
Bennett Moses L; Churches G; Watson E; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Submission to the Data Sharing and Release Legislative Reforms Discussion Paper, https://www.datacommissioner.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/5.pdf
Churches G; Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L, 2019, Review of the Identity-matching Services Bill 2019 and the Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019, https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=a8735bc1-17fe-42ae-b631-2c7aa8550178&subId=669553
Johns F; Compton C; Zalnieriute M; Bennett Moses L; McAdam J; Goodwin-Gill G, 2019, Submission to the UNHCR’s Global Virtual Summit on Digital Identity for Refugees ‘Envisioning a digital identity ecosystem in support of the Global Compact on Refugees’, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3380116
Churches G; Zalnieriute M; Greenleaf G, 2019, NSW Needs a Strong Mandatory Data Breach Scheme: Submission to Inquiry into NSW Adopting a Mandatory Reporting Scheme for Data Breaches, https://www.allenshub.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/inline-files/NSW%20Mandatory%20Reporting%20Scheme%20for%20Data%20Breaches%20NDB%20Churches%20Zalnieriute%20Greenleaf%20(002).pdf
Zalnieriute M; Churches G, 2019, Submission to Review of the Australian Federal Mandatory Data Retention Regime, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3416959
Bhathela N; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M; Clarke R; Manwaring K; Bowrey K; Bell F; Kearnes M, 2019, Response to ‘Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Leadership’ White Paper Consultation by Australian Human Rights Commission, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3352329
Vaile D; Wijeyaratne S; Churches G; Zalnieriute M, 2019, Submission Telecommunications Data Retention Review, https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=b7ce0196-1e3b-4afa-aac0-a7188212e07c&subId=668210
Zalnieriute M; Vaile D; Bennett Moses L, 2018, The Privacy and Data Protection Regulatory framework for C-ITS and AV Systems, https://www.ntc.gov.au/Media/Reports/(A4689742-E776-D8B3-1837-C4F6F3969B2E).pdf
Bennett Moses L; Buckley R; Johns F; Greenleaf G; Kemp K; De Leeuw M; Manwaring K; Maurushat A; Zalnieriute M, 2018, Response to Issues Paper on Data Sharing and Release, https://www.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/public-submissions/data-sharing-2018/20684.pdf
Yu A; Lo A; Bennett Moses L; Clarke R; Farbenblum B; Joyce D; De Leeuw M; Manwaring K; Nolan J; Zalnieriute M, 2018, Response to Issues Paper on Human Rights and Technology, https://tech.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/inline-files/70%20-%20The%20Allens%20Hub%20for%20Technology,%20Law%20and%20Innovation.pdf
Tatlow-Golden M; Boyland E; Jewell J; Zalnieriute M; Handlsey E; Breda J, 2016, Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world: trans-disciplinary perspectives,’ World Health Organization, http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/322226/Tackling-food-marketing-children-digital-world-trans-disciplinary-perspectives-en.pdf?ua=1
Zalnieriute M; Schneider T, 2015, A Council of Europe Analysis on ICANN’s Procedures and Policies in the Light of Human Rights, Fundamental Freedoms and Democratic Values,’ Council of Europe, Strasbourg, DGI(2014)12,, http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/icann-and-human-rights.asp
Zalnieriute M, 2015, Issue Report for the Cross Community Working Party on ICANN’s Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: Practical Recommendations for ICANN, https://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/38003/ICANN_report_A5-for-webv2.pdf
Zalnieriute M, 2015, ICANN’s Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights,’ Policy Brief for Article 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression,, https://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/37845/ICANN-PAPER-WEB.pdf