The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, was an independent community of scholars based at UNSW Sydney that operated from 1 November 2017 until 1 June 2024. It sought to add breadth and depth to research on the diverse interactions among technological change, law, and legal practice. It had influence over academic and policy debates through its engagement with the legal profession, the judiciary, industry, government and the broader community and its many submissions to policy processes.

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The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation to close in 2024

Wed 22 November 2023

The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation will cease operations on Saturday, 1 June 2024.

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Allens Hub represents Sydney in World Legal Summit

Mon 19 August 2019

An international legal summit co-sponsored by The Allens Hub recently brought together legal practitioners and technology experts to better understand...

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Want to know what's been happening at the Allens Hub?

Sun 18 August 2019
Check out our latest newsletter, released for August 2019
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How can we have a more inclusive and ecologically sustainable vision of a shared future?

Thu 15 August 2019

Allens Hub member Professor Bronwen Morgan was recently invited to help launch the recent publication of The Politics of the Common Good by Jane...

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Change leadership for a dynamic profession

Tue 13 August 2019

We often hear that lawyers are not well-equipped to manage change, a sentiment supported to some extent by research findings. Yet the profession faces...

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Stream lead Rob Nicholls is appointed chair of meetings on interoperability of eConveyancing platforms

Tue 13 August 2019

Dr Rob Nicholls, co-lead of the Hub's stream data as a source of market power, was appointed by the New South Wales Registrar General to chair a...

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Lyria Bennett Moses

When algorithms go rogue the havoc is all too human

Tue 13 August 2019
Algorithms are increasingly taking over from human decision-making in law enforcement, but the data used can be prejudice explains Hub director Lyria...
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Curriculum needs to change to help students navigate the rise of ‘smart’ technologies

Tue 13 August 2019
Professor Lyria Bennett Moses calls for changes to the education system so future workforce can challenge artificial intelligence technology.
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Hub members involvement in two new journals

Fri 09 August 2019

The ways in which technology interfaces with law and regulation and the impact of this on being human in the modern world are all questions of...

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Submission - review of the Data Retention Scheme in the Telecommunications Amendment Act 2015

Wed 07 August 2019

Lead of the Allens Hub stream on Data Protection and Surveillance, David Vaile, together with Hub intern Shavin Wijeyaratne, Hub member Genna Churches...

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