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Law, Technology and Humans\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/span>is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing original, innovative research concerned with the human and humanity of law and technology.\u00a0Supported by the QUT Faculty of Law, the Journal was launched late last year alongside the QUT Law Lab and is one of four QUT-supported scholarly journals.<\/p>\n Volume 2, Issue 1 is in two parts. The first is a collection of papers from a project examining the relations between law, culture and \u2018things.\u2019 Introduced by Richard Mohr<\/strong>, these articles inquire into human links with the material world. Francesco Contini<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>connects the potentially disruptive effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) deployment in the administration of justice to the pre-existing trajectories and consequences of court technology development. <\/strong>Patr\u00edcia Branco\u2019s<\/strong><\/a><\/span> contribution to this collection explores the inter generational force of law with case studies examining the intricate web of science, belief, tradition and law used to determine the nutrition of children. Alessandro Pelizzon\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>paper addresses interactions between law and the material world citing the Amazon case in 2017 as one example of the emergence of a novel ecological jurisprudence that is emerging around the globe. Richard Mohr<\/strong><\/a><\/span> investigates the \u2018cosmotechnics\u2019 of technical interactions with the environment and explores the sources of these social, ethical and environmental problems.<\/p>\n The second part of this issue is dedicated to general articles and includes a timely review of data control and surveillance in the global TB response that resonates with the current global pandemic COVID-19.\u00a0 In their article, US researchers Kat Albrecht <\/strong>and Brian Citro<\/strong><\/a><\/span> pinpoint unique data risks and the threats posed to the human rights of people monitored in a critical health emergency. Google\u2019s corporate code of conduct and recent changes included in Project Maven are explored by Penny Crofts <\/strong>and Honni van Rijswijk<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, <\/strong>while the fraught intersections between social media, fair trial principles and community engagement with high-profile crimes are discussed by Kate Tubridy<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 <\/strong>From the UK, Benjamin Goh<\/strong><\/a><\/span> demonstrates the utility of media theory to the inquiry into the digital (de)constitution of life, suggesting value to the idiom of dispositive <\/em>via the Neflix show \u2018Black Mirror\u2019, and Thom Giddens<\/strong><\/a><\/span> interrogates the institutional control of textual appearance in his review of the visual appearance of registration marks (or number plates).<\/p>\n Submissions are now being accepted for Volume 2, Issue 2 to be published in November 2020<\/strong> https:\/\/lthj.qut.edu.au\/announcement\/view\/42<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n