Why are some governments and agencies willing to recommend mask use when others aren’t, and why are recommendations changing? Fiona McDonald, Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, together with Professor Claire Horwell from Durham University, has co-written an article for The Conversation UK on face…
Why making voluntary assisted dying legal best respects both sides of this debate After almost three decades of refusing to agree to it, it looks as though Australian parliaments are slowly beginning to warm to the idea of voluntary assisted dying (VAD). Legislation has already been passed in…
Law, Technology and Humans is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing original, innovative research concerned with the human and humanity of law and technology. Supported by the Faculty of Law, the Journal was launched late last year alongside the QUT Law Lab and is one of four…
Law is different in Australia. The origins of the Australian state in a military-run British prison camp, the legal fictions of terra nullius that dispossessed, displaced and failed to see the sovereignty of First Nation people, and the efficiency currently witnessed in controlling the population and the economy…
Dr Michael Guihot (Senior Lecturer in the QUT Faculty of Law), in collaboration with Lyria Bennett Moses (Professor in the UNSW Sydney Faculty of Law), has published a new book which explores the legal and ethical issues arising from developments in artificial intelligence and robotics. Artificial Intelligence, Robots…
With the release of the Australian Government’s COVIDSafe App this week, Mark Burdon, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, has published a timely two-part blog for the Cambridge University Press on the use of COVID-19 contact tracing technologies. Part one examines recent developments in mobile phone contact…
A Queensland Parliamentary Committee recently handed down its Report on Voluntary Assisted Dying. Recommendation One of that report was that the Queensland Government should introduce legislation to legalise voluntary assisted dying based on draft legislation submitted to the Committee by Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White. The Chair…
Almost a decade ago, Dr Lucy Cradduck (Senior Lecturer, QUT Faculty of Law) examined the legal challenges facing the then to be constructed Australian national broadband network (NBN). That dissertation, ‘The future of the Internet Economy: Addressing challenges facing the implementation of the Australian National Broadband Network’, served…
Law, Technology and Humans (ISSN 2652-4074) is an innovative open access, double blind reviewed journal that encourages research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. Law, Technology and Humans is advised by a leading International Editorial Board and is sponsored by the Faculty of…
Approximately 30% of adults in Australia die after a decision to stop or not start potentially life-sustaining treatments, including mechanical ventilation, artificial nutrition and hydration, and CPR. While these decisions are a common part of mainstream medical practice, they raise practical, legal and ethical challenges. A central justification…
