Australia’s handling of the pandemic ranked more accountable than most, but not perfect

Published 28 Jun 2021

Alumni recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours list 2021

Melbourne Law School congratulates a number of our alumni who were recently recognised in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours list. The awards are a testament to the contributions and outstanding commitment made by MLS alumni to the Australian community.

Published 25 Jun 2021

Eddie Cubillo presented as part of the Amnesty Redferns Action Group webinar, marking Reconciliation Week.

Children of the Intervention - is the justice system failing them?" Forum

Published 17 Jun 2021

Can the Olympics still be cancelled? Yes, but the legal and financial fallout would be staggering

Published 01 Jun 2021

Four seismic climate wins show Big Oil, Gas and Coal are running out of places to hide

Published 31 May 2021

Art, Literature & Technology: Understanding Human Experience, Expression & Emotion in the Datafied Age

Event Reccording - Friday 14 May, 1pm.In a recent article in The Atlantic titled ‘Artificial Intelligence is Misreading Human Emotion,’ the Australian composer and academic Kate Crawford contends: “There is no good evidence that facial expressions reveal a person’s feelings. But big tech companies want you to believe otherwise.” Crawford’s claim responds to a recent growth in the development of affect-recognition tools that can be found everywhere from national-security systems in airports through to recruitment software and tertiary classrooms. Yet the inference of emotions and facial expression via Artificial Intelligence technology is preceded by a much longer and complex history of affect, expression and emotion discourse in literature, art and the performing arts. This cross-disciplinary panel takes the current digital milieu of facial-recognition as its starting point and looks back (and forward) to other forms to consider how representations of the human face, expression and emotion have been conveyed, explained and contested over time.Featuring Professor Stephanie Trigg, School of Culture and Communications, Dr Marc Cheong, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and  Dr Vanessa Bartlett, Mckenzie Post-Doctoral Fellow, with Dr Tyne Sumner, CAIDE  Subject Development Coordinator.Presented as part of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethic’s Seminar Series: Technology and the world around us.

Published 20 May 2021

Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies

Published 19 May 2021

Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies

The Centre for AI and Digital Ethics is delighted to announce the new Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies, a four-year initiative at University of Melbourne powered by Menzies Foundation.This program brings together the new collaboration between the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, under CAIDE.

Published 14 May 2021

Not criminals or passive victims: media need to reframe their representation of Aboriginal deaths in custody

By Amanda Porter, Senior Fellow (Indigenous Programs), and Eddie Cubillo, Associate Dean (Indigenous Programs).

Published 22 Apr 2021

30th Anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report

Published 20 Apr 2021

Black Mirror’s “Hated in the Nation”: Facial recognition is a weapon

Sohee Kwon is a student from the CAIDE subject AI, Ethics and the Law. This an excerpt from her second assignment, a review of a media piece demonstrating AI Ethics principles.

Published 12 Apr 2021

Damming Northern Australia: we need to learn hard lessons from the south.

Authors Erin O'Donnell and Barry Hart, discuss the lessons which can be learned from the south of Australia when harnessing water resources in the north. See this story in The Conversation,

Published 08 Apr 2021

Will giving the Himalayas the same rights as people protect them in the future?

In an intersection between the sacred and the legal, a court in India recognised the Himalayas as a legal person, but what does it mean for their preservation?By Erin O’Donnell, University of Melbourne and Julia Talbot-Jones, Australian National University

Published 08 Apr 2021