This week (23-29 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’. This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship…

A new book called Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights has been written by Dr Julia Duffy (pictured, above), Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) in the QUT Faculty of Business and Law. About the book Personhood, in liberal…

Law, Technology and Humans (ISSN 2652-4074) is an innovative open access, double blind reviewed journal dedicated to research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. Sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Law, Technology and Humans is advised by a leading International Editorial…

A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 5(1) includes articles from the symposium Condition Critical. This symposium explores the heuristic and political potential of system breakdowns from empirical, theoretical and policy perspectives. This range of perspectives is also informed by the locations of…

A new book called COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic analyses major legal and regulatory responses internationally to COVID-19, and the impact the pandemic has had on human rights and freedoms, governance, the obligations of states and individuals, as well the role of…

A new book by Dr Alex Deagon (pictured above), A Principled Framework for the Autonomy of Religious Communities, was published recently. About the book Building on From Violence to Peace: Theology, Law and Community (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2017), A Principled Framework for the Autonomy of Religious Communities engages…

A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 4(2) includes articles from the symposium Jurisprudence of the Future. These contributions bring together science fiction, justice and law: Folúkẹ́ Adébísí uses examples of Black science fiction and Afrofuturism to address inequalities of race in the…

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…

A new book by Dr Peta Stephenson, Nationhood, Executive Power and the Australian Constitution, was published recently. About the book The first comprehensive study of the nature and scope of the nationhood power, this book brings a fresh perspective to the scholarship on the powers of the executive…

Law, Technology and Humans (ISSN 2652-4074) is an innovative, open access, double blind reviewed journal that encourages research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. Sponsored by the School of Law, QUT, Australia, Law, Technology and Humans is advised by a leading International Editorial…