Law Futures Centre

LFC Seminar - Resilience, Rupture, Resistance: Climate Justice & Global Subjectivity
29 Jun

LFC Seminar - Resilience, Rupture, Resistance: Climate Justice & Global Subjectivity

Dr Kathleen Birrell (Melbourne Law School) will present on the literary and juridical expressions of indigeneity, to investigate the positioning of indigeneities within the fluid juridical and political landscape of the Anthropocene and the broader construction of global subjectivities in this context.
Law Futures Centre Seminar: Human Rights and Neoparochialism in the contemporary United States
30 Apr

Law Futures Centre Seminar: Human Rights and Neoparochialism in the contemporary United States

Professor Aaron Fellmeth (Arizona State University) will discuss the deeply ambivalent relationship the United States has with international human rights law.
LFC Seminar: Punishment of Transition
20 Mar

LFC Seminar: Punishment of Transition

Research on international penal practices has received limited attention and there has not been a comprehensive study into the role of individuals tried and punished by international criminal tribunals in local transitional justice-measures which seek to redress legacies of massive human rights abuse. Associate Professor Barbora Hola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will discuss the ARC Discovery Grant she has been developing with Griffith Law School's Dr Olivera Simic to fill this gap.
Frontiers 4: Annual Environment Law Colloquium
06 Feb

Frontiers 4: Annual Environment Law Colloquium

The National Environment Law Association together with the Law Futures Centre of Griffith University and the University of Tasmania, Faculty of Law are pleased to announce the fourth annual colloquium of environment law teachers and researchers.

Colloquium Aims
The annual Frontiers in Environment Law Colloquium provides a forum for environmental law teachers and researchers to share and discuss their ideas, research and teaching practices.
'Genetic Resources and Information: Finding Solutions for Equitable Access and Benefit Sharing' Workshop
06 Dec

'Genetic Resources and Information: Finding Solutions for Equitable Access and Benefit Sharing' Workshop

This workshop will bring together experts and practitioners to share their experiences with access and benefit sharing information about genetic resources with the prospect of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of practices.
The Right under EU Law to Object to Automated Decisions Based on Profiling - A Right for Australia?
30 Nov

The Right under EU Law to Object to Automated Decisions Based on Profiling - A Right for Australia?

The seminar outlines the contours of this right and assesses its utility and likely impact, particularly in an era when decision making is increasingly the result of computer algorithms fed by "Big Data' analytics. The seminar concludes with a discussion of whether the right ought to be replicated in Australian law.