We are delighted to announce that the 2025 ALSA Law and Technology Conference will take place in Sydney, Australia on 9 – 11 July 2025. The call for abstracts is currently open and will close on 1 November 2024. We welcome abstracts on any topic connected to law, technology and innovation and are open to diverse methodologies, disciplines, and career stages. Possible topics include:
- The use of technology in legal institutions, legal practice or law enforcement
- The use of technology in legal drafting
- Theories of law and its relationship to technology and technological change, including the pacing problem
- Regulation of technology
- Legal and policy issues around new technologies, including but not limited to AI, robotics, deepfakes and synthetic media, smart cities, quantum, health technologies, biomedical technologies, neurotechnologies and fintech
- AI governance and aligning AI with human values; governance of organic-digital intelligence
- Legal and policy issues relating to cybersecurity
- Blockchain and the law
- Legal issues for automated decision-making
- Data privacy and protection and digital identity
- Intellectual Property Law and AI: ownership of AI-generated outputs, patentability of AI work, challenges in protecting AI innovations across jurisdictions
- Employment law and AI: the impact of AI on jobs and protecting human jobs
- Digital governance and sovereignty: exploring the legal and regulatory challenges posed by digital spaces and how they affect notions of sovereignty, including the governance of digital platforms
- Environmental implications of emerging technologies (and resulting legal and policy issues)
- Consumer law and technology marketing and manipulation
- Space law
- Redefining Taxation in the Digital Age: The Impact of AI on Domestic and International Tax Systems
- Implications of technology for legal education and the future of law
The Conference also has capacity to host self-organised workshops or streams over the conference period. In addition, there will be a small, selective PhD/ECR workshop on 9 July (with mentoring opportunities and prizes). When submitting an abstract, you will be asked whether you are interested in being considered for this workshop.
For more information about the conference, and to submit an abstract, please go to https://www.alsa2025.com/.