CAIDE Law: Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies

Ninian Stephen Law Program Oration 2024

CAIDE and the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law (MCCL) invite you to the 2024 Oration for the Ninian Stephen Law Program, powered by the Menzies Foundation. Tuesday 16 April 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Science Gallery, Melbourne Connect 'Technology in the Professional Toolkit' will be presented by Joseph Longo, Chair, Australian Securities and Investments Commission. The Oration will explore the role of technology in the professional toolkit, and how understanding and effective use of technology is becoming an essential part of the legal practitioner’s skillset.

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Ninian Stephen Law Program Report

Read the 2024 New Legal Thinking For Emerging Technologies report by Fahimeh Abedi, Tim Miller, and Atif Ahmad.

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2024 Ninian Stephen Law Program Lecture Series: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies

Practising Law with AI

  • Joseph Longo presents Technology in the Professional Toolkit: 2024 Ninian Stephen Law Program Oration, 16 April 2024. Register here.
  • The Future of Legal Practice in the Face of AI with Stuart Fuller, Global Head of Legal Services, KPMG International, 14 May 2024. Register here.

Evolving Law for AI

  • Neurotechnology and the Law, 29 April 2024. Panel discussion with Professor Nick Opie, Patrick Hooton, Veronica Scott, and Dr Michelle Sharpe. Read a summary of the panel discussion here.
  • The Perennial Problem of Complexity with The Hon Justice Goddard, Judge of the New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal, 22 May 2024. Register here.

Law, Society and AI

  • To be announced.

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Welcome to the Ninian Stephen Law Program, powered by the Menzies Foundation.

WATCH: CAIDE Law Research Fellow Fahimeh Abedi and Co-Founder of CAIDE Professor Tim Miller, in discussion with Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders AO, introduce the Ninian Stephen Law Program, and reflect on the project's namesake Sir Ninian Stephen, the 20th governor-general of Australia, former justice of the High Court of Australia and International Court of Justice.

About

In 2021 CAIDE received funding from the Menzies Foundation for the Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies. 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.

The program aims to:

  • build capacity in the legal profession to provide effective responses to the challenges of emerging technologies.
  • bring together leading thinkers from the legal profession, and those from information technology, computing and engineering.
  • 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 premised on a model of systems thinking, commonly learnt by engineering and computer science students, that studies how people and human-artifacts interact. This program asserts that systems thinking can be used to testing the limits and possibilities to regulation of technology.

Built on a holistic approach to cyber and AI in Australian organisations, the program will develop thought leadership, policy, training and education packages in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Work from this program led to CAIDE's DFAT-funded project Building Resilient Legal Advice for Cyber and Critical Technologies in Viet Nam.

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Ninian Stephen Law Program Oration 2022

Ninian Stephen Law Program Oration and Launch 2021