Inaugural Lecture: Professor Alex Sims

Professor Alex Sims is a professor in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland’s Business School. Her wide-ranging research includes copyright and other intellectual property laws, consumer law, decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), cryptocurrencies, NFTs and blockchain more generally. She has held a numerous leadership and governance roles throughout the University. Alex has also served on governance bodies for many organisations outside the University including ConsumerNZ, Telecommunications Dispute Resolution, BlockchainNZ, Legal Research Foundation and the Australasian Law Teachers Association.
In her inaugural lecture, Alex draws on her research and teaching at the University to discuss law and other paradoxes. Her presentation explains that contrary to the common portrayal of law as clear and straightforward, how the law applies in any given situation depends on the facts and a range of other factors. This presentation also covers other paradoxes including why people are prepared to pay significant sums of money for digital files, which anyone can copy with a right mouse click.
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