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Dr Michael Crowley

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: m.crowley@ecu.edu.au

Dr Michael Crowley provides support and advice to HDR students on legal issues relevant to their research. Michael also gives guest lectures on introduction to law, security law, privacy and critical infrastructure legislation.

Current Teaching

PhD Completions

  • Co-supervisor with Assoc Prof Johnstone and Dr Szewczy: Aleatha Shanley, Public Attitudes towards Privacy and Surveillance in Australia (2024)
  • Co-supervisor with Dr Larsen: Dewi Yustisia, moving forward in enforcing foreign arbitral awards in Indonesia: overcoming disharmony between international and domestic laws (2015)

Current PhD supervision

  • Co-supervisor with Assoc Prof Johnstone: Glen Murray, Managing Cybersecurity Risk for Critical Infrastructure - A framework to secure critical infrastructure and systems of national significance.

Background

Michael is a barrister holding a current practising certificate and is a former law academic who taught amongst other subjects’ security law, evidence and public international law.

Professional Memberships

  • A member of the Australian Bar Association, holding a current Australian Practicing Certificate.
  • A member of the Board of Management of the Health Consumers Council of Western Australia.

Awards and Recognition

National and International Awards

  • 2010 Certificate of Commendation – Hong Kong Red Cross (a Branch of the Red Cross Society of China) in recognition of meritorious service.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Security law, international humanitarian law and terrorism

Books

  • Crowley, M., (2018 to date) Contributing author – Austlii - Crime, Western Australian Law Handbook
  • Crowley, M., Kurnadi, F and Cassimatis, A (Eds) (2018) Australian Red Cross Handbook on International Humanitarian Law Mooting, Australian Red Cross.
  • Crowley, M. (Chief Editor) (2012) with ICRC, Introduction to International Humanitarian Law and IHL Moot in Asia-Pacific Region, Hong Kong Red Cross.

Journals & Conferences

  • Johnstone, M N., Crowley, M & Murray, G. (2024) The Changing Face of Cyber Crime as a Service: An Australian Perspective; Journal of Information Warfare, Vol 23.
  • Shanley, A., Johnstone, M., Szewczy, P. & Crowley, M. (2023) An Exploration Of Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy, Journal of Information and Computer Security, Vol 31.
  • Crowley, M., Johnstone, M., & Murray, G. (2023) Entering the Firing Line: How Civilians Become Legitimate Targets in War as Technology Becomes a Double-Edged Sword, Journal of Information Warfare, Vol 22.
  • Shanley, A., Johnstone, M., Szewczy, P. & Crowley, M. (2020) A Survey of Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy: Some Preliminary Results. Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance Symposium, July 6–8, 2022.
  • Shanley, A., Johnstone, M., Crowley, M & Szewczy, P. (2020) Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy of Information: Will COVID-19 Make a Difference? IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, July 8 -10.

Qualifications

  • Master of Education, The University of Sydney.
  • Doctor of Philsophy, Macquarie University, 2017.
  • Bachelor of Legal Studies, Macquarie University, 1989.
  • Graduate Diploma in Education, Sydney Teachers College, 1977.
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Sydney, 1977.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Johnstone, M., Crowley, M., Murray, G. (2024). The Changing Face of Cyber Crime as a Service: An Australian Perspective. Journal of Information Warfare, 23(1), 64-76.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Crowley, M., Johnstone, M., Murray, G. (2023). Entering the Firing Line: How Civilians Become Legitimate Targets in War as Technology Becomes a Double-Edged Sword. Journal of Information Warfare, 22(1), 1-9. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/2474.
  • Shanley, L., Johnstone, M., Szewczyk, P., Crowley, M. (2023). An Exploration Of Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy. Information and Computer Security, 31(3), 353-367. https://doi.org/10.1108/ICS-11-2022-0171.

2022

Conference Publications

  • Shanley, L., Johnstone, M., Szewczyk, P., Crowley, M. (2022). A Survey of Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy: Some Preliminary Results. Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (228-239). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12172-2_18.

2020

Conference Publications

  • Shanley, L., Johnstone, M., Crowley, M., Szewczyk, P. (2020). Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy of Information: Will COVID-19 Make a Difference?. Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (3-15). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57404-8_1.

2018

Conference Publications

  • Chaudhry, J., Valli, C., Crowley, M., Haass, J., Roberts, P. (2018). POStCODE Middleware for Post-Market Surveillance of Medical Devices for Cyber Security in Medical and Healthcare Sector in Australia. International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT (10 p.). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2018.8573695.

2016

Journal Articles

2015

Journal Articles

2014

Conference Publications

  • Crowley, M., Johnstone, M. (2014). I remember Richelieu: Is anything secure anymore?. The Proceedings of 7th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (27 - 32). ECU.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Crowley, M. (2013). Australian Democracy in the War on Terror. Australian Quarterly, 84(4), 12 - 18.
  • Crowley, M. (2013). The Politics of terrorism in Australia: views from within. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 28(2), 80-93.

2012

Journal Articles

  • Larsen, A., Crowley, M. (2012). Virtue Ethics: Analysing emotions in a police interview with a crime suspect. Policing: a journal of policy and practice, 6(3), 291-300. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pas016.

2011

Conference Publications

  • Crowley, M. (2011). A poisoned apple? The use of secret evidence and secret hearings to combat terrorism in Australia.. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Counter Terrorism Conference (43-52). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.

2010

Journal Articles

  • Crowley, M. (2010). Tough on Terrorists: Challenging Traditional Sentencing Principles?. Federal Sentencing Reporter, 22(4), 279-287. https://doi.org/10.1525/fsr.2010.22.4.279.
  • Crowley, M., Larsen, A. (2010). Morality and Police Conduct: a way forward for ethical policing. Forum on Public Policy, 2010(5), 1-17.

Conference Publications

  • Crowley, M. (2010). Countering Home-Grown Terrorists in Australia: an Overview of Legislation, Policy and Actors since 2001. Proceedings of The Ist Australian Counter Terrorism Conference (62-71). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.

2009

Journal Articles

  • Crowley, M. (2009). Corporate Governance - Royal Dutch Shell, Terrorism and Reputational Risk. Legal Issues in Business, 11(2009), 35-47.

2008

Book Chapters

  • Crowley, M. (2008). Cyber Crime and Biometric Authentication - The Problem of Privacy Versus Protection of Business Assets. Biometrics: Techno-Legal Issues (41-55). Icfai University Press.

2006

Conference Publications

  • Crowley, M. (2006). Cyber Crime and Biometric Authentication? The Problem of Privacy Versus Protection of Business Assets. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Information Security Conference (75-83). School of Computer and Information Science.
  • Crowley, M., Woodward, A. (2006). Does your wireless LAN have criminal intent?. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Information Security Conference (84-92). School of Computer and Information Science.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

No data available

Completed Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Enforcing foreign arbitral awards in Indonesia: Overcoming disharmony between international and domestic laws
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