AI, Law and Access to Justice

For more than four decades, former High Court Justice the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG has been one of the legal profession's most prescient voices on the relationship between law, technology and justice. From his early writing and lectures on computers and the law to his more recent reflections on generative AI, Justice Kirby has consistently argued that while technology can assist the law, it can never replace human judgement that is required to do justice. 

This event opens with a keynote from Justice Kirby on AI and the law, exploring how automation challenges legal decision-making, access to justice and the protection of fundamental human rights. His Honour's address will also touch on how legal progress often emerges not from consensus, but from careful dissent, principled disagreement and the steady accumulation of minority reasoning that later reshapes the law. The keynote will be followed by a panel discussion with Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay and Dr Kim Weinert from the law school examining how these questions now arise in the area of human rights, charities and other institutions exercising legal power in contexts of vulnerability. This discussion will be chaired by Brydon Wang, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Futures, and will also mark the launch of the White Paper AI and Australian Charities.

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