Dr Vicki Huang

Dr Vicki Huang is a Senior Lecturer of IP Law at Deakin Law School and Director of Cyber Law (Grad Cert) and the LLB/Cyber degree. She graduated from the Melbourne Law School with a PhD and first class honours in the LL.B. She also completed a L.L.M. at Columbia University Law School on a Burton Memorial Fellowship where she graduated with honours.

Dr Huang's research focusses on inter-disciplinary aspects of intellectual property (IP) law and empirical research methods into law. She has been awarded several grants to research: gender and patents; artificial intelligence and IP law including deep fakes; and open data for inter-disciplinary research. Her work has been published in Australia, Europe and the United States including the Sydney Law Review (2019) and the University of Illinois Law Review (2021).

Dr Huang is a co-author of two textbooks - S Ricketson, M Richardson, M Davison and V Huang, Intellectual Property: Cases, Material and Commentary, 6th ed (LexisNexis, 2019) and N Suzor, K Papparlardo, R Matulionyte, A Daly, A Chalk, A Witt, V Huang, Governing the Internet, open source textbook: https://wikijuris.net/cyberlaw/home

In 2021, she was nominated by the Deakin Law School for an Australian Legal Education Award for excellence in teaching. In 2020, she received an Honourable Mention at the Australian Legal Research Awards (ECR) from the Council of Australian Law Deans. In 2019, she was a finalist for 'Academic of the Year' at the Lawyers Weekly Awards and Women in Law Awards.

She currently teaches cyber law, intellectual property law, and property law. Dr Huang is also a student mentor, refugee mentor, leads the Faculty task force on inclusive workplace culture and serves on the academic integrity committee.

Prior to her appointment at Deakin, Vicki was a sessional lecturer at the Melbourne Law School. She previously worked for the Federal Court of Australia as a Research Associate to the Hon. Justice Finkelstein. She also worked for a number of years at law firms in Melbourne (Ashursts) and the USA (Morrison Foerster) with a focus on litigation and intellectual property law. She has been admitted to practice in Victoria as an Australian lawyer and admitted to the State Bar of California as an American attorney.

Dr Huang has a first class honours degree in psychology, and economics (top 1% of graduates) and has worked in management consulting and investment banking. She also worked as an intern at the United Nations, New York in the Secretary General's Office. Her multi-disciplinary background is reflected in her research work.