First published 10 June 2019
Mr Pesce, whose podcast ‘The Next Billion Seconds’ won Best Technical and Scientific Podcast, will discuss how ‘three partnerships’ will frame the middle of this century: machine-to-machine, human- to-machine and human-to-human.
“We are getting smarter, hand-in-hand with our machines, and all of our cultural, economic, and legal institutions will need to race to keep up,” he says.
The lecture is an apt introduction to the launch of the QUT Law Lab which brings together the Faculty of Law’s many-stranded research on regulatory and policy solutions to the impact of technology on legal, social and ethical aspects of our daily lives.
QUT Law Lab research areas are:
At the same time, QUT Faculty of Law is launching its new international, open access, peer-reviewed journal Law, Technology and Humans, the first edition of which will be released later in the year.
The journal’s editor, Professor Kieran Tranter, said the journal was a strong statement by QUT on the importance of encouraging high-quality thinking on how technology was influencing our future.
“The journal will publish original innovative research on how we want that future to be and how to get there,” Professor Tranter said.
“Law and other forms of ordering can influence that future. The first issue will be out by the end of the year and will include a symposium of original research on automation, disruption and innovation in legal practice.
“It will also publish a series of empirical studies on how technology is changing different types of legal practice in Australia and overseas.”
The ‘Three Partnerships’ Public Lecture by Mark Pesce will be held at Room Three-Sixty, Level 10, Y Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 11 June 2019. Register via - http://bit.ly/LawLabLaunch.