A new book by Dr Alex Deagon (pictured above), A Principled Framework for the Autonomy of Religious Communities, was published recently. About the book Building on From Violence to Peace: Theology, Law and Community (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2017), A Principled Framework for the Autonomy of Religious Communities engages…
Diversity, dignity, equity and best practice: a framework for supported decision-making
A report commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission has recommended a policy overhaul to ensure that all people living with cognitive disability are empowered to make decisions about their lives. The research aimed to understand the significance of supported decision-making to the lives of people with cognitive disabilities,…
Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity
QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research is seeking to appoint a new Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a 3 year appointment. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will carry out research and support the undertaking of research projects about end-of-life law and voluntary assisted dying in Australia. The position is…
Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board appointment
Professor Lindy Willmott has been appointed to the Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board. From 1 January 2023. the Board will oversee, monitor and report on the operation of voluntary assisted dying in Queensland. The Board will review each completed voluntary assisted dying case to ensure compliance with…
ACHLR 10th Annual Public Oration
Please join members of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research for the 10th Annual Public Oration with Professor Emma Cave presenting. Abstract The oration will consider how the sufficiency of young adults’ autonomy is judged in light of biological, social and psychological evidence that adolescence can continue…
Law, Technology and Humans Volume 4 Issue 2
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 4(2) includes articles from the symposium Jurisprudence of the Future. These contributions bring together science fiction, justice and law: Folúkẹ́ Adébísí uses examples of Black science fiction and Afrofuturism to address inequalities of race in the…
This week (October 24-30) is International Open Access Week #OpenForClimateJustice
So, what is open access? Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. Through licensing via an open license (usually a Creative Commons License), freely available outputs can also…
Gendered impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic
In this fifth seminar of our 2022 series, co-hosted with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Sara Davies discussed how gender roles determined women’s risk exposure. These findings demonstrate an urgent need to introduce crisis response measures that differentiate the gendered social and economic impacts…
Nationhood, Executive Power and the Australian Constitution – a new book by Dr Peta Stephenson
A new book by Dr Peta Stephenson, Nationhood, Executive Power and the Australian Constitution, was published recently. About the book The first comprehensive study of the nature and scope of the nationhood power, this book brings a fresh perspective to the scholarship on the powers of the executive…
DECRA grant success – Dr Hope Johnson
ACHLR researcher Dr Hope Johnson has been awarded an ARC DECRA grant for her project ‘Regulating the future of protein’. The $450,853 project aims to to determine how this can be achieved by developing optimal ways of regulating alternative proteins. Alternative proteins imitate meat and dairy but are…