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2026-10-19 https://lthj.qut.edu.au/

Celebrating Open Access: The Cost of Knowledge

2026-10-19

This week (19-25 October) is International Open Access Week.

Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year’s theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge—particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests.

Committed to the wide and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge Law, Technology and Humans encourages scholarship that reflects on how technology is changing law, regulation and normative conduct and also how law, regulation and normative conduct effects local and global challenges and opportunities from technological change. Importantly, the journal's research and scholarship is accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access practices.

Law, Technology and Humans is indexed widely and included in the larges global index of open access journals - the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). DOAJ membership is a clear statement of intent and proves a commitment to quality, peer-reviewed open access.

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Current Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2026): Law, Technology and Humans

Published: 2026-07-28
Introduction: Ordering of Human-Artificial Intelligent Constructs
  • Matilda Arvidsson, Kieran Tranter
Symposium: Ordering of Human-Artificial Intelligent Constructs
  • Joaquín Santuber, Mariana Costa Morais, Kristina Tica
  • David Tilt
  • Quinn Edwards
  • Kaif Siddiqui
  • Chris Dent
Articles
  • Jing Qian
  • Sara Monaci, Simone Persico
  • Yuri Banens
  • Golden Lwando Mwinsa, Benjamin Ferguson, Frances Griffiths
  • Hui Chia, Daniel Beck, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Julian Savulescu
Book Reviews
  • Habibe Deniz Seval

Law, Technology and Humans provides an inclusive and unique forum for exploration of the broader connections, history and emergent future of law and technology through supporting research that takes seriously the human, and humanity of law and technology.

Papers to be considered at any time, please look out for the call for papers for symposiums and workshops.  The journal only accepts articles in English. Submissions should consider the following, in particular research and scholarship that:

  • Challenges and critically examines the promises and perils of emergent technologies
  • Engages with the futures (and pasts) of law, technology and humans
  • Involves critical, philosophical or theoretically informed work on law and technology
  • Uses humanities, social science or other approaches to study law and technology
  • Examines law and technology from non-Western locations and perspectives
  • Locates law and technology in wider concerns with the Anthropocene, climate change or relations with non-humans

Interested contributors are invited to discuss their research and scholarship with the Chief Editor, Professor Kieran Tranter: lawtechhum@qut.edu.au

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Open Access Journal
ISSN 2652-4074