In the third episode of the QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series for 2023, Jenna Imad Harb and Professor Kathryn Henne presented Negotiating the Digital Welfare State: Regulatory Tensions of Surveillance and Localisation. Abstract: In 2019, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights…
In the second episode of the QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series for 2023, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Jocelyn Downie described the legal status of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada and explained what is happening in practice.…
In this fourth seminar of the 2022 Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series, Emeritus Professor Stefan Kuhlmann discussed a critical gap in the context of mission oriented and transformative policies by conceptualising generic governance conditions for critical corporate actors to engage constructively with the transformation of wider socio-technological…
In the third seminar of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series, Professor Mathilde Cohen provided insight into the argument that human milk itself has become a “technology.” Abstract: Legal scholar Kara Swanson has argued that with the emergence of human milk banking in the 1910s,…
In the second seminar of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series, Dr Neville Rochow QC reflected on what it means to be human in a digital world. Abstract: Questions arise constantly regarding how we, as modern humanity, should respond to what is referred to as…
In the first seminar of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Associate Professor Bernadette Richards explored the challenges of trustworthy data governance. Abstract: Technology is empowering advances in healthcare, extending beyond the clinical interface to the…
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…
In the fifth episode of the ACHLR Coffee with a Colleague online seminar series, Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then discusses end of life organ donation decisions with Associate Professor Dominique Martin from Deakin University. This episode (Collaborating across disciplines: ‘Transitions in decision-making authority at the end of life’, challenges…
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…
