Law, Technology and Humans

📣Call for Papers 2026
Committed to the wide and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge, this journal encourages scholarship that reflects on how technology is changing law, regulation and normative conduct
#OpenAccess #LawTech
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It’s out! 🎉 A new article published right in the middle of Brazil’s Carnival season.
So happy to be part of this amazing special issue on digital health in the Global South!

🆕New #OpenAccess article
Enabling the transformation of linked health and social data to support scientific research and knowledge production - the role of the #GlobalSouth in advancing critical epistemologies #PublicHealth #DigitalHealth @maripittalima.bsky.social
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New #OpenAccess article
The Pacing Problem in mHealth Regulation: Rethinking the ‘Intended Use’ Rule in the Governance of mHealth Apps in South Africa
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New #OpenAccess article
The introduction of the Digital Services Act (DSA) by the EU marks a fundamental step forward in the governance of #SocialMedia platforms - how the DSA regulatory framework addresses the issue of #disinformation and the role of influencers
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👏Thank You!
At the end of 2025, we would like to acknowledge and thank the Editorial team, the International Editorial Board, the authors and the Journal reviewers for their significant and valuable contributions throughout the year #LawTech #OpenAccess
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🆕The use of algorithmic systems to identify suspected #WelfareFraud has led to concerns that governments are taking a ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach to the adoption of algorithmic systems #Robodebt #DutyOfCare
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🆕Does #AI have the potential to fundamentally obliterate the order itself by exposing the way in which law relies on the temptation of an imagined – and distinctly human – sovereignty? The Challenge of Human–AI Constructs Through Patent Law’s Inventor #patents #phantasm
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🟣From latest issue - article examines the relationship between Standard Public Open Licences (SPOLs) and inequity in the artificial intelligence #AI innovation ecosystem, focusing on how these licences affect access to and use of African datasets #OpenData
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In latest issue - #Blockchain and #cryptocurrency evoke the cultural imaginary of global societies - implications for how regulators create rules and structures for the use of this emerging and disruptive technology
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🔊Call for papers: Housing, Technology and the Law
#AI and digital platforms are reshaping how housing is financed, built, used, managed, regulated and accessed, with complex legal, regulatory and policy implications
#Law #Technology
Full details can be found at
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🆕New in latest issue - the legal implications of ADM under POPIA, focusing particularly on the interpretation of section 71 – does South Africa’s current regulatory framework offer adequate protection for data subjects trust? #DigitalGovernance
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From the latest issue - The legal profession offers its members a special identity in exchange for prolonged education and regulatory oversight. This article explores how the emergence of #GenAI challenges that promise and the profession’s meaning and value #LegalProfession
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🆕New in latest issue - how can legal education productively integrate #GenAI into #HigherEducation settings while maintaining academic integrity
#OpenAccess article:
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🆕In latest issue - a landmark High Court judgment addressing the use of #GenAI in legal practice - a framework through which courts, regulators and educators can collaborate to integrate GenAI into #LegalPractice while sustaining public trust in the judicial system
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New #OpenAccess issue – includes
#LegalPractice #GenAI #LegalEducation #LegalTraining #HigherEducation #AcademicIntegrity #Blockchain #cryptocurrency #OpenData #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #DigitalGovernance #DataProtection #GDPR ... and more
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🆕Reflections from Australian law students on the use and integration of #GenAI in the practical legal training law curriculum - providing opportunities to explore the appropriate and responsible use to develop AI literacy skills #LegalTraining #PLT
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🆕The benefits of artificial intelligence #AI -enabled healthcare - effective frameworks of digital and data governance. The pressing challenges to such adoption in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) #DigitalHealth #DataProtection #ethics
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Who Owns our Knowledge?
This week (20-26 October) is International Open Access Week
This year’s theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAWeek2025
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🆕New article:
The legal profession offers its members a special identity in exchange for prolonged #LegalEducation and regulatory oversight. This article explores how the emergence of #GenAI challenges that promise and the profession’s meaning and value #law
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🆕Kamrul Faisal examines the current framework governing child consent under the European Union’s #EU General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR - offering a principled pathway towards ensuring that children’s data rights are safeguarded #DataProtection
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🆕A hybrid approach that enhances the accessibility of symbolic legal systems by integrating them with large language models #LLMs
Findings show that the hybrid approach enhances the clarity of legal applications
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📝15-19 September is #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 Acknowledging - and thanking - the Journal’s peer reviewers who play a vital role in supporting research integrity – critical in #ScholComm #ResearchIntegrity @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

A very warm welcome to our new Deputy Editor Dr Tegan Cohen 👏
#OpenAccess #LawTech #LegalEducation #SocialSciences #Humanities #GlobalChallenges
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🆕Quinn Edwards presents a cultural legal reading of the updated anime series Digimon Adventure (2020) enabling a reconciliation of the use of #AI narratives as a method of scholarly interpellation of human–AI interactions #DigimonAdventure
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🎈Congratulations to @austlii.edu.au
A non-profit organisation providing free online access to legal information from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and other countries in the Australasian region - making legal research and law #OpenAccess and "more accessible, usable, and relevant"

🆕article examines the relationship between Standard Public Open Licences (SPOLs) and inequity in artificial intelligence #AI innovation - focusing on how these licences affect access use of African datasets #OpenData
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🆕article
#Blockchain and #cryptocurrency evoke the cultural imaginary of global societies, eliciting both a utopian response and a fearful dystopian reaction
👉implications for how regulators create rules and structures for the use of this technology #LawTech
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In latest issue Yeliz Figen Doker applies Rittel and Webber’s wicked problem theory to critically examine Artificial general intelligence governance, categorising #AGI within the ten characteristics of wicked problems #TechnologyGovernance
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In latest issue 🧬
The Impact of Narratives on the Legal and Regulatory Discourse of Heritable Human Genome Editing #GeneEditing #TechLaw #ethics
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