Rate My Professor Joel Lisk

Dr Joel Lisk serves as Lecturer in Space Law at Flinders University in the College of Business, Government and Law. He completed a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of Adelaide in 2018, followed by a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice in 2019 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2024 from the same university. A qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia, Dr Lisk maintains a private legal practice focused on competition and consumer law, privacy and data protection, space operations and activities, and complex regulatory frameworks. His academic and professional work centres on the laws applicable to private and commercial activities in outer space, the design and impacts of domestic laws on commercial activities, and the regulation of emerging technologies to mitigate risks to consumers. He has contributed to the development, implementation, and reform of national regulatory frameworks for space activities, as well as research on consumer protection law in Australia with emphasis on interactions with new and digital technologies, privacy, data protection, and online safety regulation.