Call for Papers 2026
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.
Papers are considered for publication at all times. Preference is given to 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, digital research methods or other approaches to study law and technology
- Examines law and technology from Global South locations and perspectives
- Locates law and technology within wider concerns of global health crisis, climate change or geo-political conflict
Supported by the Humans Technology Law Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, the Journal is advised by a leading International Editorial Board and is indexed in international databases including Scopus and Web of Science and the largest global index of open access journals, DOAJ
Interested contributors may discuss their research and scholarship with the General Editor, Professor Kieran Tranter from the Humans Technology Law Centre by email.
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