Innovation win for MLS students
MLS JD student Chris Girardi and MLS alum Laura Hamblin have come out tops in the 2019-20 U21 & PwC Student Innovation Challenge.
Published 30 Mar 2020
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Disarmament: what is it good for?
Efforts to control the weaponisation of new technologies like AI are fragmented, but the UN hosts an existing disarmament framework that could bring these efforts together.
Published 22 Mar 2020
Studying in London– developing global perspectives in the JD
2019 Melbourne JD graduate Finbar Piper reflects on the semester he spent studying at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London.
Published 06 Mar 2020
2019 Disability and Human Rights Clinics projects now available
View the projects undertaken by our 2019 participants, and their collaborative approaches to tackling real-world issues.
Published 06 Mar 2020
Your Jessup Moot questions answered
The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot is one of the world’s biggest celebrations of the art of argument. Competing in it is not for the fainthearted.
Published 25 Feb 2020
AI: it's time for the law to respond
The law is always behind technology but given the sweeping changes heralded by new technologies, legislators need to get in front of the issue
Published 18 Feb 2020
Can legal action force governments and businesses to respond to climate change?
Australia's devastating summer bushfires, and now flooding rains, fit with scientific predictions for how climate change might affect the weather.For many in the community this extreme weather highlights the need for a political response, yet more and more people believe governments and companies aren't doing enough to combat the changing climate.Can the courts provide a solution? Professor Jacqueline Peel wrote for ABC News.Read the full article here.
Published 14 Feb 2020
Indonesia: the not so good news
"Indonesia is becoming a wealthy country, but it still has an enormous number of very poor people, and they are not doing well .. reviving Australian aid for health, education, and governance can help"- Tim Lindsey & Tim Mann
Published 10 Feb 2020
From Melbourne to Bangalore – reflections on receiving the inaugural Melbourne Law Masters Alex Chernov Scholarship
The Alex Chernov Scholarship is awarded each year to an international student from India undertaking the Masters program.
Published 05 Feb 2020
Animals, robots and ethics
Dr Simon Coghlan discusses current research including the ethics surrounding animals, robots, AI and the environment.
Published 03 Feb 2020
Australia Day Honours for MLS community
Melbourne Law School congratulates a number of alumni and friends who were recently recognised in the 2020 Australia Day Honours list. The awards are a testament to the contributions and outstanding commitment made by MLS alumni to the Australian community.
Published 30 Jan 2020
Abusing a robot won’t hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
Could treating social robots kindly make us kinder people? And could cruelty towards them make us more callous?
Published 29 Jan 2020
Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”.
Published 23 Jan 2020
MLS media round up
From Hong Kong to Capitol Hill, these are your most-read articles from MLS eBrief 2019
Published 17 Dec 2019
A Competition Lore Podcast Live Interview and Breakfast, with Frank Pasquale
Big Tech Antitrust: At War With ItselfThursday 25 July 2019, 8.30am - 9.30am
Published 16 Dec 2019
It's time to retire Lena from computer science
Why has a pornographic image been widely used to train computer scientists and their algorithms? And what sort of message does it send to women?
Published 13 Dec 2019
Funding Win for MLS Digital Research
Melbourne Law School has received more than $840,000 in funding as part of the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards.
Published 06 Dec 2019
What is the law when AI makes the ‘decisions’?
A Federal Court ruling that the Australia government’s ‘Robodebt’ system is unlawful shines a much-needed light on what the law actually says.
Published 05 Dec 2019
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