In our fourth QUT Global Law, Science and Technology seminar series for 2021, Professor Ross Buckley reflected upon his research on FinTech, RegTech, data, and related matters. Abstract This presentation explains how I come to be doing what I do (trust me, it certainly wasn’t planned) and the…
The Editors of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion invite contributions to the inaugural issues in 2022. The Australian Journal of Law and Religion is the first journal specifically devoted to law and religion issues in the South Pacific region. The intersection of law and religion has…
Papers for consideration in Volume 4(1) are now invited. The issue will be published in May 2022. See the full call for papers at the Law, Technology and Humans website. Law, Technology and Humans is an innovative open access, blind peer reviewed international journal that encourages research and…
In September 2021, the Queensland Parliament passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021 (Qld), becoming the fifth Australian state to do so after Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and South Australia. Professors Ben White and Lindy Willmott (pictured), from QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research, played a key…
Analysis by Professors Ben White and Lindy Willmott, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Business and Law, QUT Our analysis of these proposed amendments include 5 key points: 1. It is difficult to know the consequences of the amendments The proposed amendments were delivered on the…
A significant component of Australia’s legal response to COVID-19 has been to give extensive powers to State and Territory governments to manage the crisis. At times these measures, such as quarantine arrangements, border controls, lockdowns, curfews and face masks, have been controversial, both legally and within the general…
The Law, Technology and Humans Journal has published the first machine-generated law review article. Canadian law academics Benjamin Alarie (University of Toronto) and Arthur Cockfield (Queen’s University) approached the Journal’s Chief Editor Professor Kieran Tranter (Faculty of Business & Law) to have an AI software program known as…
Recently, the Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced the establishment of the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme. The scheme aims to provide further assurance and confidence to patients and health professionals in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and will be backdated to the start of the national vaccine…
The Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation project, led by Professor Cathy Humphreys from the University of Melbourne, has been announced as an Australian Research Council Linkage project. Professor Ben Mathews (pictured) from the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) is a Chief Investigator for the project. Child sexual…
In the third seminar of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology series for 2021, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Margaret Isabel Hall (Adjunct Professor, ACHLR) looked critically at the problematic construction and application of “autonomy” and “vulnerability” and considered the difference…
