The Remaking the Maker Movement event was convened by Professor Matthew Rimmer and hosted by the QUT Faculty of Business and Law earlier this month. This event focused on the role of innovation spaces – such as makerspaces, Fab Labs, hackerspaces, TechShop, and innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators.…
David M. Studdert, Professor of Law and Medicine at Stanford University, was guest speaker at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research 8th Annual Public Oration. David explored gun violence in the United States, where approximately 40,000 Americans are killed by gunshot wounds each year. David discussed whether…
In the fifth instalment of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Thaddeus Mason Pope discussed how COVID-19 has spurred a renewed focus on protecting patient rights and tackling bigger perennial issues at the intersection of technology…
A new issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is now available. The fourth issue for 2020 is a double issue and includes diverse articles from scholars in the UK, Italy, Canada, Australia and the United States of America. In two parts, the first part…
Fiona McDonald, Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, has had her work with the HIVE (Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions) Consortium cited in the October 2020 supplement to the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization’s Disasters – Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas…
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. 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 early last…
In common law countries, the courts have an important role in the development of new insolvency mechanisms. Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, a vexed question in many advanced economies was whether the law might contemplate the reduction of mortgage debt of financially stricken households. In the…
Long-nosed fur seals (pictured above) were hunted almost to extinction in the early 19th century. They have since recovered with a population of about 100,000 in South Australia. Environmental Law’s Extinction Problem – online workshop Organisers: Prof. Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Dr Katie Woolaston, Dr Michelle Lim QUT Faculty of…
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of valid will making. Executing a valid will can be difficult during a pandemic in the event of the public health response, incorporating social distancing and lockdowns. Compliance with traditional presence requirements for signing and witnessing wills has, in some jurisdictions,…
I am a proud woman from the Quandamooka people of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), and I completed my Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Justice double degree in 2011. I secured a graduate role with McCullough Robertson Lawyers, and practised for five years as an Intellectual Property Lawyer. I then…
