Law Program
NINIAN STEPHEN MENZIES LAW PROGRAM
The Program aims to build capacity in the legal profession to provide effective responses to the challenges of emerging technologies. The program is premised on a model of systems thinking, commonly learnt by engineering and computer science students, that studies how people and human-artefacts interact. This program asserts that systems thinking can be used to test the limits and possibilities to regulation of technology.
It will bring together leading thinkers from the legal profession, and those from information technology, computing and engineering. It will investigate the ways in which these cohorts understand the ramifications of emerging technologies; the risks of harm arising from reliance on such technologies; and the most effective ways of building resilient legal, regulatory and governance approaches to those technologies. The program is built on a holistic approach to cyber and AI in Australian organisations and will use these insights to develop thought leadership, policy, training and education packages in Australia. In the coming years, the project will build collaborations and regional expertise in the Asia Pacific.
This collaborative program of research, dissemination and engagement aims to build capacity in the legal profession in responding to the challenges of rapid sociotechnical change, now and into the future.
INFORMATION
Program; The Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies is a four year initiative to new develop methodologies for lawyers to respond to challenges of new technologies.
RESOURCES
COLLABORATION PARTNER
ADVISORY BOARD
- Professor Jeannie Paterson, Co-Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics
- Profession Timothy Miller, Co-Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics
- Liz Gillies, CEO, Menzies Foundation
- The Hon. Susan Kenny AM, Judge of Federal Court of Australia
- Fiona McLeay, Board CEO & Commissioner, Victorian Legal Services Board
- Cheng Lim, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
- Cameron Whittfield, Technology Law Partner PwC
- Carmel Mulhern, Group General Counsel and Group Executive, Legal & Group Governance at Commonwealth Bank
- Michelle Price, CEO, AustCyber (Australian Cyber Security Growth Network)
- Peter Collins, Ethicist