Marina Yastreboff
Legal Counsel
University of NSW
Marina is in-house counsel at the University of New South Wales, an active member of the ACC Australia (NSW committee, Probono and LTIC special interest groups) and founding President of the Australian Society for Computers + Law (AUSCL) a network of over 2,000 professionals across disciplines.
AUSCL is a registered charity with a mission to achieve UN SDGs 16, 17 at the intersection of law, policy and technology for the benefit of humanity. AUSCL has made multiple submissions to government enquiries, run over 50 open access webinars since July 2020 with 10,000+ registrations, on topics as broad as AI, ethics, COVID passports and Rules as Code. AUSCL’s Rules as Code (RaC) Accelerator has attracted participants and experts from across the globe eager to translate laws and policy into computer code. AUSCL is keen to ensure that technology and policy develops in a sustainable way, respectful of human rights, and the Rule of Law.
AUSCL Patron, Hon Michael Kirby congratulated Marina on her “high motivation, dedicated work and brilliant success in bringing this valuable initiative to fruition”.