Professor Niloufer Selvadurai is a technology law scholar who analyses the regulation of emerging and evolving technologies, focussing especially on AI. She examines how laws and governance frameworks can be designed to calibrate the benefits and risks of technological innovation, and how such laws can be embedded within technology. A feature of her legal research is interdisciplinary collaborations with computing, engineering, finance and health. 

Niloufer is the Director of Research & Innovation at the Macquarie Law School and Co-Chair of the Australian Law Associate Deans Research Network (LADRN). In the technology sphere, she is a Co-Director of the Data Horizons Research Centre  and the Program Leader for 'AI and Law' at the Centre for Applied AI. Formerly, she was a Solicitor at Ashurst, Sydney, and worked at A&O Shearman. 

Qualifications include a BA LLB (First Class Hons) from the University of Sydney, a PhD from Macquarie University, and Admission as a Solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

A new book Recreating creativity, reinventing inventiveness: AI and intellectual property law, co-edited with Nikos Koutras, was published in 2024 by Routledge. 

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