A new edition of Creighton & Stewart’s Labour Law, written by Andrew Stewart, Anthony Forsyth, Mark Irving, Richard Johnstone and Shae McCrystal, has just been published. This seventh edition of Australia’s most authoritative text on labour law provides a comprehensive account of the rules and processes governing employment…
A new publication from legal scholars has highlighted the conflicts involved in the contemporary focus of bibliometrics in assessing researcher quality. Kieran Tranter (QUT) and Timothy Peters (UniSC) report on a study of Australian-based law researchers’ H-index and total citation counts, as recorded on Google Scholar in September…
Volume 5 of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion, co-edited by Associate Professor Alex Deagon of QUT Law, has now been published. The Special Topic Forum on ‘The Rise of the Nones’, which discusses the emergence of the ‘spiritual but not religious’ community in the national and…
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…
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 6(2) includes articles from authors in Czechia, Italy, Nigeria, Australia and China. Andrej Krištofík delves into the relationship between language in law and the automation of legal decision-making processes. Maria Bartolomei and Antonia Cava examine the…
Volume 4 of the Australian Journal of Law & Religion has been published. It is a special issue on Theology and Jurisprudence co-edited and published by Associate Professor Alex Deagon. Among many excellent articles, it contains an article on Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment by world-leading law…
Intuitively Rational: How We Think and How We Should, a new book written by Andrew McGee and Charles Foster, has been published this month. This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists and…
Law, Technology and Humans Vol 6(3) 2024 In recent years, there has been rapid change in the capacity of information and communications technology to supplement the skills of lawyers (‘lawtech’). Artificial intelligence (AI) may radically transform legal practice, the work of courts, and legal education. Law is increasingly…
The role of intellectual property rights in technology transfer to developing countries and least developed countries to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a major theme of a new international collection of writing on intellectual property rights and the SDGs. Professor Matthew Rimmer is one of…
In 2024 the Law, Technology and Humans journal will begin publishing three issues per year instead of two. Papers are considered for publication at all times. Preference is given to research and scholarship that: Challenges and critically examines the promises and perils of emergent technologies; Engages with the futures…
