Law, Technology and Humans
@lawtechhum.bsky.social
Law, Technology and Humans is an international, #OpenAccess, peer-reviewed journal publishing original, innovative research concerned with the human and humanity of #law and #technology
Website: https://lthj.qut.edu.au/
Website: https://lthj.qut.edu.au/
New #OpenAccess article
The Pacing Problem in mHealth Regulation: Rethinking the ‘Intended Use’ Rule in the Governance of mHealth Apps in South Africa
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
The Pacing Problem in mHealth Regulation: Rethinking the ‘Intended Use’ Rule in the Governance of mHealth Apps in South Africa
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
January 26, 2026 at 9:13 PM
New #OpenAccess article
The Pacing Problem in mHealth Regulation: Rethinking the ‘Intended Use’ Rule in the Governance of mHealth Apps in South Africa
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
The Pacing Problem in mHealth Regulation: Rethinking the ‘Intended Use’ Rule in the Governance of mHealth Apps in South Africa
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
January 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
👏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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
December 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
👏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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
🆕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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December 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🆕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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December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🆕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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November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🟣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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
🔊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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/HousingTechn...
#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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/HousingTechn...
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🔊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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/HousingTechn...
#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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/HousingTechn...
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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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#OpenAccess article:
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November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
🆕New in latest issue - how can legal education productively integrate #GenAI into #HigherEducation settings while maintaining academic integrity
#OpenAccess article:
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#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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November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🆕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
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/issue/view/147
#LegalPractice #GenAI #LegalEducation #LegalTraining #HigherEducation #AcademicIntegrity #Blockchain #cryptocurrency #OpenData #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #DigitalGovernance #DataProtection #GDPR ... and more
🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/issue/view/147
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
🆕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
Open access doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
Open access doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🆕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
Open access doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
Open access doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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
lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
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
lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
October 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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
lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
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
lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
September 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
Findings show that the hybrid approach enhances the clarity of legal applications
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
September 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
Findings show that the hybrid approach enhances the clarity of legal applications
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
📝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
September 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
📝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
lthj.qut.edu.au/TeganCohen
#OpenAccess #LawTech #LegalEducation #SocialSciences #Humanities #GlobalChallenges
lthj.qut.edu.au/TeganCohen
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A very warm welcome to our new Deputy Editor Dr Tegan Cohen 👏
#OpenAccess #LawTech #LegalEducation #SocialSciences #Humanities #GlobalChallenges
lthj.qut.edu.au/TeganCohen
#OpenAccess #LawTech #LegalEducation #SocialSciences #Humanities #GlobalChallenges
lthj.qut.edu.au/TeganCohen
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
🎈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"
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"
Last week @austlii.edu.au celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special event bringing together distinguished guests from the judiciary, government, legal profession, academia, and the wider community. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/even...
AustLII – Australasian Legal Information Institute
Free access to Australian legislation, case law, treaties and legal materials.
www.austlii.edu.au
August 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🎈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"
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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
August 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
#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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
August 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🆕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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
#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
doi.org/10.5204/lthj...