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Elder financial abuse
Tina Cockburn is interested in supervising students who wish to undertake research about elder financial abuse. Elder financial abuse is a hidden but growing phenomenon within modern society. We are looking for students to undertake research into elder financial abuse, particularly in relation to the obligations of financial institutions and actors in identifying, responding to and preventing elder financial abuse. Please contact the supervisor if you are interested in undertaking a PhD in this area. This topic is led by …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Legal, multidisciplinary and public health research regarding child abuse and neglect
Professor Ben Mathews is an internationally recognised expert in multiple legal areas connected with child abuse and neglect. These include sexual abuse generally, physical abuse and corporal punishment, domestic violence, civil claims for child abuse, statutes of limitation, mandatory reporting laws, institutional child abuse, child protection systems, criminal prosecution, prevention, regulation and oversight, public health and public health law analyses, and children's rights. Ben welcomes all enquiries about topics connected with these themes.In addition, he is currently leading the Australian …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Human rights and future environmental change
Dr Bridget Lewis is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on environmental human rights, intergenerational justice, the human rights impact of climate change, the rights of future generations or any other topic at the intersection of human rights and environmental law.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
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- Centre for Justice
Supported and Substitute Decision-making
Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then is looking for PhD/MPhil candidates wishing to explore legal and policy responses to decision-making by, and on behalf of, adults with a decision-making impairment. Candidates with an interest in the human rights concept of supported decision-making and legal responses to this are encouraged to contact the supervisor. Doctrinal, comparative or empirical approaches to investigating these issues are possible.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Data Management and Privacy Law for Transnational Corporate Entities
Dr Lucy Cradduck is looking for PhD/MPhil candidates wishing to examine cross-jurisdictional data management and privacy concerns for transnational corporations, particularly comparing EU, South East Asian nations and Australia. Candidates with an interest in approaching the topic through empirical approaches involving interviews and stakeholder engagement are particularly encouraged. This topic is led by the QUT School of Law within the Datafication and Automation of Human Life research group.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
Sentience and the law (plants and animals)
For centuries the law has operated under the assumption that plants and animals are inert and material objects without the ability to meaningfully determine their future or engage with other living or material things. Plants constantly communicate with each other through fungal (mycorrhizal) networks in the soil and have up to 20 senses as opposed to the five that human beings have. New ways of thinking about plants and animals raise important and deep possibilities for law reform. The supervisors …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
How should the law distinguish between people who can make legally effective decisions and those who cannot?
Dr Sam Boyle is looking for candidates wanting to explore the ethical and legal issues that the issue of capacity gives rise to. In particular, candidates may want to consider how the law can validly incorporate medical understanding of mental functioning into the legal sphere.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Involuntary Treatment for Mental Illness: Under what circumstances is it ethically justified?
Dr Sam Boyle is looking for candidates wanting to explore the ethical and legal issues associated with providing involuntary treatment for people with mental illnesses. Candidates may explore this issue in relation to ethics, human rights, or any other relevant angle, including an international comparative approach.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Executive Power and the Modern State
Dr Peta Stephenson is available to supervise students who are interested in exploring research topics in constitutional law, public law and statutory interpretation. Candidates interested in exploring the content and scope of executive power, relationships between the legislative and executive branches of government and issues in federalism are particularly encouraged. Projects can have a domestic or comparative focus.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
LawTech, RegTech and the Automated Future
Dr Michael Guihot is looking for PhD candidates wishing to explore the development, potential and impact of lawtech (digital applications for legal practice and law service delivery) and regtech (digital applications in the public regulation). Candidates looking at exploring lawtech or regtech through empirical, law and society, and/or reform grounded approaches are encouraged to contact Dr Michael Guihot. This topic is led by the QUT School of Law within the Datafication and Automation of Human Life research group.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
The Law and Technology Interface
Dr Michael Guihot is looking for PhD/MPhil candidates interested in exploring the relationship between technological and legal change. Candidates are encouraged to identify a specific emergent technology or application (AI, robotics, blockchain, Internet of Things, commercial space tech, CRISPR, lawtech) through which to explore the relations and/or particular existing truisms, theories or accounts of the law-technology interface. The legal focus can extend from local Australian jurisdictions, to comparative analysis to a focus on public or private international law. This topic …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
Intellectual Property Issues
Professor Matthew Rimmer is interested in the supervision of students in the field of intellectual property. His areas of expertise include copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, the plain packaging of tobacco products, sustainable development and climate change, Indigenous intellectual property, intellectual property and trade, intellectual property and 3D printing, and the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
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