
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.
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
- The cultural imaginary from new media and especially computer gaming
- 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
- 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
- Reference year
- 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
- Reference year
- 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
- Reference year
- 2011
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- Managing Editor Griffith Law Review 2007-2011
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
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- Academic Excellence Award for Doctorial Studies, Griffith University
- Crawley K, Tranter K, (2019) A maelstrom of bodies and emotions and things: Spectatorial encounters with the trial, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law p621-640
- Tranter K, (2019) Die Buribunken as science fiction: The self and informational existence, Griffith Law Review p118-136
- Tranter K, Anthony T, (2019) Race, Australian colonialism and technologies of mobility in Kalgoorlie, University of Western Australia Law Review p99-135
- Lawson C, Bikundo E, Tranter K, (2019) The perils of parliamentarism: The World Intellectual Property Organization and Indigenous peoples, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies p285-315
- Pearson A, Giddens T, Tranter K, (2018) Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters, Routledge
- Tranter K, (2018) Living in technical legality: Science fiction and law as technology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities)
- Tranter K, (2018) Doing right in the world with 100,000 horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), essence, posthumanity and techno-humanism, Law and justice in Japanese popular culture: From crime fighting robots to duelling pocket monsters p95-111
- Tranter K, (2018) I, archive: Envisioning and programming digital legality from Syfy's Caprica, Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation p21-45
- Anthony T, Tranter K, (2018) Travelling our way or no way!: the collision of automobilities in Australian Northern Territory judicial narratives, Griffith Law Review p281-306
- Sleep L, Tranter K, (2018) Social media in social security decision-making in Australia: An archive of truth?, Media and Arts Law Review p442-463
- Legal Adaptability to Disruptive Technology: A Case Study of Australian Law In Relation to Harm and Automated Vehicles
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Belinda Bennett - The Law of LAWS: Achieving Legality for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Michael Guihot - INNOVATION IN LEGAL PRACTICE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF LAW FIRM INNOVATION WITH BLOCKCHAIN
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Michael Guihot - The legal implications of Australian workers wearing mobile and wearable technologies at work.
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mark Burdon, Professor Richard Johnstone - The Legality of The Child in Contemporary Japanese Anime
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari - The Fidelity of Recall Evidence in Overturned Convictions in the Queensland Court of Appeal
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Nigel Stobbs
- Legal Personhood in Video Games, Canonical Media and Fandom (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)