Much has been written about whether end-of-life law should change and what that law should be. However, the barriers and facilitators of such changes – law reform perspectives – have been virtually ignored. Why do so many attempts to change the law fail but others are successful? International…
The TRIPS Waiver: Intellectual Property, Access to Essential Medicines, and the Coronavirus COVID-19 Research Symposium, hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) and co-ordinated by Professor Matthew Rimmer, was held on the 10 December 2021. The symposium was part of ACHLR’s research activity in respect…
In our fifth QUT Global Law, Science and Technology seminar series for 2021, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Bridget Crawford investigated the purposes of traditional will-making requirements and their continued vitality in the context of remotely witnessed wills. Abstract The COVID-19 global…
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. This issue of Law, Technology and Humans contains a commentary produced by the artificial intelligence (AI) system GPT-3. A project undertaken by Benjamin Alarie and Arthur Cockfield is, as far as the editors can establish, the first…
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…
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…
