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Presented by Prof Keith Ewing, King's College, London, UK

Presented by Professor Lionel Smith, McGill University, Canada

Book launch and presentation by Professor Ghislain Otis, University of Ottawa. Learn more about research with impact, collaboration with other Universities, and outputs from grant projects.

In this talk, Professor Guido Governatori will introduce the paradigm of digital legislation.

Presenter: Sarah Asokendaran, PhD candidate, TC Beirne School of Law

Presented by Professor Michael Brescia, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

Presented by Leonie Maria Tanczer, University College London’s (UCL) Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)

To coincide with UQ Research Week, we will celebrate outstanding contributions to research by UQ Law School academics and HDR students in the past year.

Half-day interdisciplinary seminar to discuss the challenges of regulating corporate ethics, governance in an age of Inquiries.

Kim Trajer (Chief Operating Officer, McCullough Robertson) and Milan Gandhi (Innovation Ambassador, McCullough Robertson/Founder of The Legal Forecast) will explore the basics of how and why modern day law firms are pushing to innovate, and what this actually means in practice particularly for those seeking to enter the profession within the next few years.

The automation of various aspects of legal services delivery, from discovery and due diligence to predictive analytics, have raised questions for university and continuing legal education. To work effectively alongside technology, lawyers will need to understand it, not by learning to code, but by grasping the underlying logics.

Presented by Professor Mark Furse (University of Glasgow) and Doctor Wendy Ng (University of Melbourne)

A workshop mapping the future of social justice lawyering.

The 'market substitution assumption' has been widely used in Queensland Courts and by policy-makers more generally as a rationale for permitting coal mines to proceed. This seminar will analyse how this argument has been used in Queensland. Presented by Sean Ryan, Principal Solicitor, Environmental Defenders Office Qld.

While the Internet hardly creates academic excitement anymore, a number of internet-related technologies seems to challenge the principles of contract law and may, finally, test their ability to withstand technological change.

Presented by Lawrence McNamara, Reader at the University of York and Senior Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.

Recent developments in text analytics offer new tools for legal practice. Increasingly, these techniques will identify argument-related information in legal decisions raising the possibility of ever more effectively matching documents’ substantive concepts and argument roles with those required to solve users’ particular legal problems.

Presented by Professor Kristine Bowman, Michigan State University.

Presented by Dr Robert Werth, Rice University.

Presented by Dr Azim Shariff, University of British Columbia.

Presented by Chief Justice James Allsop, this lecture provides an overview of the role of the court in the uptake of technology (both the Federal Court of Australia and other courts in Australia and around the world).

Presented by Dr Monika Stempkowski, University of Vienna.