Blockchain and Society Handbook
| Edited by Professor John Flood and Dr Lachlan Robb, Published by De Gruyter, (2025, Forthcoming)
This volume is designed to be the standard reference work in the field. When scholars, students, and policy makers search for the significant literature, this book should be among the first and most relevant they encounter. |
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Optimising Digital Compliance Processes in the Financial Services Sector
This ARC Linkage project aims to develop a new approach to optimise digital compliance processes in Australian financial services firms. Effective digital compliance is needed to reduce growing regulatory burden and improve compliance with increasingly complex laws. This project expects to deliver new ways to optimise digital compliance that drive innovation and reduce the societal risks of non-compliance for end-users.
Expected outcomes include industry guidance strategies and innovative digital tools that capture the complexity of digital compliance and inform practical solutions. This will provide significant cost reduction benefits for firms and ensure that new digital compliance processes promote the public interest goals of law and regulation.
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Project team
AI: Power, Promise, Perils, Permissions
This multi-dimensional project engages with the imaginary of the promises and perils of AI and how law, regulations and other forms of normative orders, might or might not, provide for a better human future with AI.
Fundamental to this project is identifying and locating AI as power that is shaped and deployed by social, political and economic forces.
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Project team
- Associate Professor Michael Guihot
- Professor Kieran Tranter
- Dr Lachlan Robb
- Nicholas Korpela
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law & Legal Imaginaries – a Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference
Exploring Tensions in Law and Legal Semiotics – Call for Papers
Legal semiotics is a dynamic field at the intersection of law, language, culture, and society, marked by the inherent tension between semiotic representation and legal interpretation. This special issue seeks to highlight the complexities of tension in legal semiotics either linguistically or visually, exploring its cultural, social, historical, and legal dimensions, while also considering shifts in meaning through semiotic analysis.
Submission of abstracts of 300 words by 15 January 2025. Abstracts should be submitted to the Guest Editors:
- Wei Yu (University of Melbourne) – wendyroseyu@hotmail.com
- Kieran Tranter (Queensland University of Technology) – k.tranter@qut.edu.au
- Rene Cornish (University of New England) – rcornis3@une.edu.au
After selection, final papers (no more than 15,000 words) should be submitted by 15 June 2025.
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Conference details
This Conference is an invitation to collectively examine, critique, and, for the more daring, transform the imaginaries that constellate our grasp of reality and sustain the authority of law.
Conference dates: 16th to 18th December 2024
Conference PhD Day: 15th December 2024
Conference host: The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law
Conference submissions: Submit a paper, panel or creative session now. Conference submissions close on 15th July 2024.
For more information, visit the conference website.