Law Apps 2020: Combining law and technology
A group of MLS students have used creative thinking to develop an app that will help some of Australia’s most vulnerable people pay outstanding fines.
Published 30 Sep 2020
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You wouldn’t hit a dog, so why kill one in Minecraft? Why violence against virtual animals is an ethical issue
Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Dr. Simon Coghlan, writes about the ethical issues of violence against animals in video games.
Published 29 Sep 2020
CAIDE Summer Research Academy
The CAIDE Summer Research Academy will be held from 5 November 2020 - 12 February 2021 as a series of workshops, seminars and events for PhD and Early Career Researchers who are studying technology and AI with an ethical lens.
Published 22 Sep 2020
On Fairness and Explainability in AI: Interactions between computer science and social science
On Sept 4 Professor Suresh Venkatasubramanian from the University of Utah presented 'On Fairness and Explainability in AI: Interactions between computer science and social science.'
Published 22 Sep 2020
Data isn't neutral and neither are decision algorithms
The use of the Ofqual grading algorithm in the UK highlighted the need for contestability and integrated human-machine processes to ensure biased data doesn't result in unfair results.
Published 16 Sep 2020
‘A wake-up call’: why this student is suing the government over the financial risks of climate change
Katta O’Donnell – a 23-year-old law student from Melbourne – is suing the Australian government for failing to disclose climate change risks to investors in Australia’s sovereign bonds. As climate change presents major risks to our economy as well as the environment, O'Donnell’s claim is a wake-up call to the government.Professor Jacqueline Peel and Rebekkah Markey-Towler wrote the piece for The Conversation (27 July 2020)
Published 02 Sep 2020
Balancing power: sexual harassment in Australia's legal profession
In the wake of revelations about former Justice Dyson Heydon’s alleged sexual harassment of female associates, many wondered how someone with such a high profile could act with impunity over a sustained period.
Published 31 Aug 2020
Apps Can Charge You More Based on Sex and Location, and Legislation Can’t Keep Up
Co-Director Tim Miller spoke with Gizmodo about bias in the Tinder Algorithm.
Published 31 Aug 2020
VIDEO: Leadership in the Legal Profession
In this three-part webinar series, Professor Pip Nicholson, Dean of Melbourne Law School and experts drawn from the MLS community discuss leadership in the legal profession.
Published 31 Aug 2020
Championing author rights
Associate Professor Rebecca Giblin leads the Author’s Interest Project, conducting research aimed at improving the rights of creators as well as access to knowledge and culture
Published 27 Aug 2020
Three Questions with CAIDE: What do we lose when we outsource judgements to algorithms?
CAIDE Co-Director Tim Miller asks Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts about legal decision-making algorithms.
Published 19 Aug 2020
The Connected You: Home
Co-Director Jeannie Paterson spoke for the Melbourne Connect event 'The Connected You: Home' on the increased involvement of digital assistants in our lives.
Published 11 Aug 2020
Launch of the Australian Society for Computers and Law
Co-Director Jeannie Paterson spoke on a panel for the online launch of the Australian Society for Computers and Law.
Published 10 Aug 2020
How calculated career risks can pay off
As a trained lawyer and actuary, Joyce Au-Yeung’s willingness to embrace the unknown and be flexible about her career identity has led her in exciting and unexpected directions.
Published 30 Jul 2020
Should rivers have legal rights?
While a growing number of jurisdictions around the world are granting rivers legal personhood, the jury is still out on the benefits it delivers.
Published 30 Jul 2020
AI, Ethics and the Law in Film, Media and Literature
For our upcoming subject AI, Ethics and the Law the CAIDE team made a series of videos to discuss AI, Ethics in Film, Media and Literature.
Published 23 Jul 2020
Amplifying the Australian AI Conversation - Eliiza Podcast
Jeannie Paterson and Tim Miller join Eliiza to discuss AI, ethics, accountability and explainability. What is changing in these spaces, especially in light of Covid-19, and what should researchers and governments turn attention to in order to ensure helpful, beneficial AI that is used ethically?
Published 22 Jul 2020
Australian Government sued by 23-year-old Melbourne student over financial risk of climate change
A 23-year-old Melbourne law student is suing the Australian Government for failing to disclose the risk climate change poses to Australians' super and other safe investments. Katta O'Donnell, the head litigant for the class action suit, said she hoped the case would change the way Australia handled climate change.According to University of Melbourne Professor Jaqueline Peel, Australia is a "hotspot" for climate litigation."We have around 90 or so cases so far, stretching back to the 1990s," Professor Peel, who has published extensively on the topic, said.Read further on her comment in this ABC news piece here.The news was also published in The New York Times on 23 July 2020.
Published 22 Jul 2020
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