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LAW,
TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANS

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Law, Technology and Humans is an innovative open access journal that encourages research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. It is sponsored by the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and is advised by a leading International Editorial Board.

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 General Editor, Professor Kieran Tranter: lawtechhum@qut.edu.au

 

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

    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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  • 2026-07-28 https://lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement/index

    New Issue | Law, Technology and Humans

    2026-07-28

    A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published, including authors from Brazil, Austria, Japan, India, Australia, Italy, the UK and Canada.

    Volume 8(2) includes a collection of symposium articles from Ordering of Human-Artificial Intelligent (AI) Constructs.  Guest Editors Matilda Arvidsson (Lund University) and Kieran Tranter (Queensland University of Technology) shift the frame of how law, humans and AI is being understood and showcase how more relational, creative, and socio-technically grounded understandings of AI-human constructs allow for new ways of understanding what order and ordering is and can be.

    Also included are a selection of articles related to AI healthcare services, algorithmic systems to identify suspected welfare fraud, online disinformation and the governance of social media platforms.

    And finally, Habibe Deniz Seval reviews The Robot Rights Manifesto by John-Stewart Gordon.

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  • 2026-02-17 https://lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement/index

    Call for Papers 2026

    2026-02-17

    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

    You can also follow Journal announcements on LinkedIn and Bluesky @lawtechhum.bsky.social

     

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