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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.  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

 

  • 2025-09-09 https://lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement/index

    Welcome to the Team

    2025-09-09

    A very warm welcome to new members of the editorial team:

    Deputy Editor Dr Tegan Cohen

    Tegan Cohen is a research fellow in the Law School at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia who writes about law, politics and socio-technical systems that mediate human relationships. More details

    Book Review Editor Yeliz Figen Döker

    Yeliz Figen Döker is a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy specialising in the regulation of Artificial General Intelligence. More details

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  • 2025-07-29 https://lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement/index

    New Issue | Law, Technology and Humans

    2025-07-29

    Volume 7(2) includes Part 2 of a collection of symposium articles from Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law. In this second part, guest editors Henrique Marcos and Syamsuriatina binti Ishak (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) give particular attention to the ways in which gendered assumptions and androcentric perspectives inform both technological development and legal regulation.  Articles from Part 1 of this symposium can be found in Volume 7(1).

    This issue also contains a variety of topics related to contemporary issues in law and technology. Armin Alimardani and Emma Jane empirically evaluate the capabilities of GenAI through ‘SmartTest’, a chatbot developed by the authors and piloted with criminal law students. From Italy, Yeliz Figen Doker applies Rittel and Webber’s wicked problem theory to critically examine artificial general intelligence governance, categorising AGI within the ten characteristics of wicked problems. Krystyna Mokrzycka examines how US state law-makers have attempted to regulate the impact of social media on children’s mental health, following the US Surgeon General’s 2023 Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health.  Finally, Terhi Esko explores the design of a new IT system within the Finnish court system, adopting a biographical approach as its inspiration.

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  • 2025-04-29 https://lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement/index

    New Issue | Law, Technology and Humans

    2025-04-29

    Volume 7(1) includes a collection of symposium articles from Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law. Guest Editors Henrique Marcos and Syamsuriatina binti Ishak (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) have brought together a collection of articles that discuss how narratives influence the governance of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, bioprinting, and neurotechnology. 

    This issue also contains a variety of topics related to contemporary issues in law and technology. From the UK, Joshua Krook examines how algorithms, and the movement towards a curated life, narrows of the user experience, limiting personal growth and the variety of content to which users are exposed. Tools for tracing, targeting and identifying terrorist suspects are the focus of Tasniem Anwar and Klaudia Klonowska’s article which addresses concerns about traditional legal reasoning based on strict categories and straightforward solutions. They argue that legal approaches need to be better attuned to the complex associations that produce terrorist suspects in these security and counter-terrorism spaces. And finally, Kieran Tranter and Timothy Peters call for more “nuanced and sophisticated research assessment measures” in relation to existing bibliometric measures around legal research.

    All queries related to the Journal can be sent to Chief Editor Professor Kieran Tranter lawtechhum@qut.edu.au

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ISSN 2652-4074