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)