Dr Michael Crowley

About Dr Crowley

A member of the Australian Bar Association Dr Crowley holds an unrestricted practising certificate in the Australian Capital Territory. He is also a member of the ACT, Western Australia, and New South Wales Bar Associations.


Areas of Expertise:

  • Legal Advice
  • Advocacy
  • Arbitration
  • Legal Education Consultancy

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From the Courtroom to the Classroom

Experienced legal practitioner and law academic in both Western Australia and New South Wales. Currently in private practice.


Regular judge or arbitrator in International mooting competitions including almost 20 years as finals judge in the Hong Kong Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Mooting Competition, a regular arbitrator in the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot in Vienna, Austria and judge in the International Negotiation Competition.


Over ten years’ experience teaching law at Edith Cowan University. whilst maintaining a right of private practice as a barrister. As an academic taught and coordinated a range of law units including criminal law, advanced criminal law, terrorism and the law, security and the law, public international law, coronial law and mortuary practice and the law of evidence. Other roles included mooting coordinator and course 

coordinator roles in law and forensic investigation and membership of ECU’s Security Research Institute. Research interests focused on international humanitarian law and terrorism.


During this period as an academic extensive involvement in key international mooting competitions as moot problem writer, finals judge, arbitrator, moot executive committee member and coach.


Previously in New South Wales experience as defense counsel in criminal law jury trials and conducting appellate work. For some ten years lecturer in criminal law and procedure with the Law Extension Committee within the University of Sydney and a

revising examiner for the Legal Practice Board of New South Wales.


Before moving from New South Wales to Western Australia appointed visiting lecturer in law at Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China.

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    Thought Leadership & Affiliations

    Current


    • Australian Bar Association
    • ACT, WA and NSW Bar Associations
    • Honorary Appointment, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth.
    • International Negotiation Competition, Executive committee member, Australasian University representative.


    Past


    • Board of Management – Health Consumers Council of Western Australia (2019-2024)





    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.

    Published & Presented: A Decade in Review

    Johnstone, M., Crowley, M  Murray, G. (2025) Actor Behaviour, Notable Incidents in Critical Infrastructures and Risks to the Health Sector. Ransomware Evolution, Dr

    Mohiuddin Ahmed (Editor), CRC Press.

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

    Shanley, A., Johnstone, M., Crowley, M  Szewczy, P. (2023) An Exploration Of Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy. Information and Computer Security, 31(3), 353-367.

    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.

    Crowley, M., Johnstone, M., (2016), Protecting corporate intellectual property: Legal

    and technical approaches. Business Horizons, 59(6), 623 - 633, Indiana, USA,

    Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2016.08.004.

    Larsen, A., Crowley, M., (2015), Government as usual: politics and law as structural

    couples governing counter-terrorism in Australia. Griffith Law Review, 24(4), 519-

    547, Melbourne, VIC, Taylor Francis Australasia, DOI:

    10.1080/10383441.2015.1130569.

    Shanley, A., Johnstone, M., Szewczy, P; Crowley, M. (2022) A Survey of Australian Attitudes Towards Privacy: Some Preliminary Results. Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance Symposium, July 6–8, 2022, 228-239.

    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.

    Hevron, A., Crowley, M. (2019). Commentary: China and Africa. The Australasian Review of African Studies, 40(1), 111.

    Dr. Junaid Chaudhry, Dr Michael Crowley, Assoc Prof Peter Roberts, Prof. Craig Valli

    and Prof. Jon Jon Hass; POStCODE Middleware for Post-market Surveillance of

    Medical Devices for Cyber Security in Medical and Healthcare Sector in Australia.

    (2018) 12th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication

    Technology (ISMICT), Sydney, Australia.

    Crowley, M., Johnstone, M., (2014), I remember Richelieu: Is anything secure

    anymore?. The Proceedings of 7th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference,

    27 - 32, Perth, W.A., ECU.

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