Margaret Jackson
Professor of Computer Law
School of Accounting and Law
RMIT University
margaret.jackson@rmit.edu.au

Professor Margaret Jackson is the University’s Professor in Computer Law and is based in the School of Accounting and Law. She developed the e-Business Law course in the Master of E-Business, in online and face-to-face mode. She also lectures in Business Research Methods. Margaret is the author of Hughes on Data Protection in Australia, published by the LawBook Co in 2001, and has just completed a new book A Practical Guide to Protecting Confidential Business Information, due to be published by LawBook Co at the end of October 2003. Recent papers have been on ‘Internet Privacy’ and ‘Globalised Business Information: Can the Law Cope?’

Margaret Jackson has been at RMIT since 1986, fulfilling a number of roles, including Sub Dean of the Faculty of Business, Head of the Faculty Research Development Unit, and Associate Dean (Research & Professional Development), RMIT Business. For three years, until April 2003, she was the Dean of RMIT Business. She has been Chair and now is Deputy Chair of the RMIT Education and Training Intellectual Property Committee.