In this fifth seminar of our 2022 series, co-hosted with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Sara Davies discussed how gender roles determined women’s risk exposure. These findings demonstrate an urgent need to introduce crisis response measures that differentiate the gendered social and economic impacts…
Driving Transformation – A Governance Frame for Critical Corporate Actors
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…
The Law and Science of Technologies of Human Milk
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,…
Our Intelligent Futures: A meditation and some contemplations
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…
Health Technology and Big Data: Is ethical debt inevitable?
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…
Wills formalities in the 21st century – Promoting testamentary intention in the face of societal change and advancements in technology
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 Scholar’s Journey – or how someone who struggles with his iPhone is the world’s most read and cited FinTech scholar
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…
Autonomy, Vulnerability, and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
In the third seminar of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology series for 2021, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Margaret Isabel Hall (Adjunct Professor, ACHLR) looked critically at the problematic construction and application of “autonomy” and “vulnerability” and considered the difference…
The Blockchain Conundrum: Humans, Community, Regulation and Chains
The second of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology seminar series for 2021 featured a panel discussion led by Professor Kieran Tranter on research conducted by Associate Professor Felicity Deane and PhD student Lachlan Robb on ‘The Blockchain Conundrum: Humans, Community, Regulation and Chains’. Abstract This discussion…
Past, or coming, or to come. Rights, interests and posthumous parenthood
In the first of our seminar series for 2021, Professor Colin Gavaghan discussed two contentious matters that have recently arisen in New Zealand, concerning assisted reproductive technology and the use of gametes. Abstract In 2017, the New Zealand High Court authorised the retrieval of sperm from a dead…