We’re excited to announce that Andrew Stewart, currently John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, will take up a new position at QUT as Professor of Work and Regulation in early 2025. Andrew is widely recognised as Australia’s leading expert in employment law and workplace…
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 6(3) includes a collection of symposium articles from Law as Data, Data as Law. Guest editors Rónán Kennedy (University of Galway) and Brian Barry (Trinity College Dublin) provide analysis from multiple disciplinary perspectives on the latest…
Dementia disproportionately affects women whether living with dementia or supporting someone living with dementia in aged care, a fact largely ignored in the final report of the Aged Care Royal Commission, an analysis by QUT health law researchers has found. Analysis of the RC into Aged Care Quality…
Australian voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws are very similar, but how VAD is implemented by each state and territory can make a significant difference. Recently published research by Ben White, Amanda Ward, Rachel Feeney, Laura Ley Greaves and Lindy Willmott examines how the VAD system has been working…
Professor Matthew Rimmer and Dr Muhammad Zaheer Abbas from the School of Law, together with HDR student Himani Sabharwal, are among the presenters at The Summit of the Future – a QUT Symposium which will analyse The Pact for the Future, The Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration…
400 health professionals, policymakers and patient advocates discuss Voluntary Assisted Dying, with a focus on frontline experiences, workplace sustainability and removing barriers to access Brisbane, 28 October 2024 – Removing barriers to voluntary assisted dying for eligible terminally ill people is the focus of the second trans-Tasman Voluntary…
On the 28th and 29th October, QUT is hosting the 2024 Trans-Tasman Voluntary Assisted Dying Conference. This is the second time the conference is being held, and this year, Go Gentle Australia and VADANZ have partnered with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) to introduce a…
This week (21-27 October) is Open Access Week – an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme is ‘Community over Commercialisation’ which prioritises approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of…
Law, Technology and Humans Volume 7(2), 2025 This symposium invites submissions that explain, explore and critique the AI-Human construct in contemporary as well as in near-history legal contexts. Contributions are encouraged to interpellate the AI-Human construct and/or/as well as consider how the AI-Human construct engages with ordering. This…
Australia could boost funding to transfer sustainable technology to developing countries and make technology and data open and accessible to help implement the UN Pact for the Future, QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Professor Matthew Rimmer said. “The Pact calls for the sharing of science benefits to…
