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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 coordinator of the Datafication and Automation of Human Life Stream in the School of Law and co-lead of the Technologies of Justice stream in the QUT Centre for Justice.
Kieran researches law, technology and the future. Drawing upon legal studies, the humanities and the social sciences, he charts 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 and past configurations of humans, law and technology. The goal of his research is to guide and shape humanity’s technological future to be better than its technological past.
Kieran is keen to collaborate with scholars and research students in the following areas:
- Cultural, social science and historical accounts of law and technology
- Law and technology in relation to the Global South or First Nation justice.
- The relations between law and technology and modes of governing
Prior to this appointment he was an Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. At Griffith Law School Kieran 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
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- 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
- Reference year
- 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
- Johansen N, Wilson R, Tichon J, Senserrick T, Tranter K, (2021) Decolonizing road safety for transportation justice in Australia, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
- Sia S, Cornish R, Tranter K, (2021) Fired for Facebook. . .terminated for Tinder: dismissal for social media misconduct in New Zealand, International Journal of Law and Information Technology
- Hamer L, Tranter K, (2021) Parents...Next: The Ongoing Neoliberalising of Australian Social Security, Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity p29-55
- Robb L, Deane F, Tranter K, (2021) The blockchain conundrum: humans, community regulation and chains, Law, Innovation and Technology p355-376
- Adhikari K, Bikundo E, Chacko X, Chapman S, Humphries F, Johnson H, Keast E, Lawson C, Malbon J, Robinson D, Rourke M, Sanderson J, Tranter K, (2021) What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right, Agronomy
- Goding V, Tranter K, (2021) ‘The machine runs itself’: law is technology and Australian embryo and human cloning law, Griffith Law Review
- Tranter K, (2021) Disrupting technology disrupting law, Law, Culture and the Humanities
- Weinert K, Crawley K, Tranter K, (2020) Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses., Routledge
- Cornish R, Tranter K, (2020) The cultural, economic and technical milieu of social media misconduct dismissals in Australia and South Africa, Law in Context p17-48
- Weinert K, Tranter K, (2020) The empty centre: The Hollowmen and representations of techno-political elites in Australian public life, Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
- Legal Adaptability to Disruptive Technology: A Case Study of Australian Law in Relation to Harm and Automated Vehicles (2021)
- The Right to Social Security in Pilipino Law: Legality, Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Adaptability (2021)
- Legal Personhood in Video Games, Canonical Media and Fandom (2019)
- The Australian Constitution, Originalism and the Dismissal (2019)
- Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force: an Informational Approach (2017)
- The Representation of Lawyers and Lawyering in Hong Kong Television Dramas (2017)
- Healing and Wellbeing: Practices, Culture and the Role of Government of Sri Lanka (2016)
- The Limits and Possibilities of Union Organisation in the Australian Building and Construction Industry (2015)
- Law Up Loud: Jurisprudence and Rock Music (2014)
- Reading The Law Made Strange: A Theological Jurisprudence of Popular Culture (2014)