About the IAPP

Dr Jessica Lake is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She researches and publishes in the areas of privacy, defamation and technology law, past and present. Her first book, The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: the American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy, was published by Yale University Press in 2016. It was widely praised and shortlisted for the W.K Hancock prize. Her second book, ‘Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law, is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Jessica has also published extensively in peer reviewed journals, edited books, magazines and newspapers; and held numerous editorial positions. In 2016 and 2017, she was the Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College, Massachusetts. In 2022, she was awarded a prestigious Discovery Early Career Researcher Award by the Australian Research Council. Prior to academia, Jessica practiced for several years as a media and intellectual property lawyer.