
Publications by year
PhD (Griffith University)
Kieran is the Chair of Law, Technology and Future in the School of Law. Kieran joined the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology in 2019 and is the founding General Editor of Law, Technology and Humans. He is director of the Human Technology Law Centre. Kieran researches law, technology and the future. Drawing upon the humanities, he explores how humans legislate, live with, and are changed by technology. In researching law, technology, and the future his research often engages with cultural narratives that connect humans, law and technology across time. The goal of Kieran's research is to shape humanity’s technological future to be better than its technological past.
Prior to this appointment Kieranwas an Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. At Griffith Law School he served in many roles: HDR Convenor, Acting Centre Director and Deputy Head of School Research and Managing Editor of the Griffith Law Review. He commenced at Griffith in 2003 having previously been a Lecturer and Social Justice coordinator at the College of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle from 1999 to 2002.
Additional information
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2018
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- Dean's Highly Commended Certificate Learning and Teaching, Arts,Education and Law Group, Griffith University
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- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2018
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- Invited Keynote ¿Shakespeare, Media and the Future of Law¿ Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference Curtain University, 4-6 July 2018.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2017
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- Research Supervision Award, Arts, Education and Law Group, Griffith University
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- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
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- 2016
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- Associate Editor International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 2016-
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2011
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- Group Teaching and Learning Citation, Arts, Education and Law Group, Griffith University
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- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
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- 2011
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- Managing Editor Griffith Law Review 2007-2011
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2010
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- Academic Excellence Award for Doctorial Studies, Griffith University
- Power, ideology, and large language models
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Guihot, Dr Lachlan Robb - The Legality of The Child in Contemporary Japanese Anime
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari - Can Behavioural Law and Economics provide Valuable Insights to CASA's Regulation of General Aviation?
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Felicity Deane, Dr Nigel Stobbs - A Comparative Study on the Role of Consumer Protection Law in the Regulation of Automated Vehicles in Australia and China
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Associate Professor Michael Guihot - A Living Jurisdiction? The common law jurisdiction of the High Court of Australia in the 21st Century
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Lucy Cradduck - Bargaining with Nature? Uncovering legal and normative relations with Plants
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Nigel Stobbs, Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari - The Relationship Between Climate Change, Peace and Security
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Melissa Bull, Professor Felicity Deane, Dr Lachlan Robb - Valuing Australian Community Legal Centres
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Felicity Deane - Tracing Technologies for a More Effective International Environmental Law
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alex Deagon, Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari - A case study using Integral Theory and Complexity Science to assess the fitness and effectiveness of South Australia’s Coastal Protection regulatory framework, with the potential to reimagine the application of Environmental Law more broadly
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Felicity Deane, Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari
- Exceptionality, Neoliberalism and Corporations in COVID Times: JobKeeper and the legal shaping of economic order in crisis (2024)
- INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA PROTECTION PUBLIC POLICY IN BRAZIL: a critical comparative study of the strategies adopted in Brazil and Australia and enforcement as a differential for effectiveness (2024)
- Navigating Research Engagement and Impact: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Australian Law Academics’ Strategies and Experiences (2024)
- Navigating to smoother regulatory waters for Australian commercial vessels capable of remote or autonomous operation (2024)
- Social Media Misconduct Dismissals in South Africa: Forms of Hate Speech in First-Instance Employment Decisions (2024)
- Unsuccessful Ageing: Marginalising Constructions of Dementia in Australian Public & Legal Aged Care Discourse (2024)
- Tracing the contextual factors that shape the use of workplace wearables (2023)
- A Cultural Legal Study of Speech Legality in Australian Film from the 1970s to 2010 (2022)
- The Impacts on the Lives of Women and Children Who Have Experienced Domestic and Family Violence and Been Subject to the Hague Convention Legal Process (2022)