Ben White, Queensland University of Technology; Lindy Willmott, Queensland University of Technology, and Madeleine Archer, Queensland University of Technology
The ACT is allowing nurse practitioners to assess people’s eligibility for voluntary assisted dying. But the latest law is unique in other ways.
For the first time, a person has been cryopreserved in Australia, in the hope of being reanimated in the future. The process opens up a possible legal minefield, however.
Canadian rap artist Drake was forced to pull a diss track he had produced that used an AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur.
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Public focus on, and anger about, the horrifyingly high rates of violence against women is at fever pitch. What have the country’s leaders agreed to, and will it fix the problem?
The debut novels of two forceful, intelligent journalists are bold, brash stories of powerful women at the top of their game. One details a horrific sexual crime, the other ugliness in the art world.
O.J. Simpson shows the jury a pair of gloves, similar to those found near the crime scene, during his trial in Los Angeles in 1995.
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For the first time since gender identity was added to the Sex Discrimination Act, it’s being tested in court. At its heart, the case looks at the rights and recognition of transgender people.
Technology enables the provision of legal services across borders.
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Technology is transnational. It is therefore disrupting traditional notions of legal jurisdiction and regulation.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, takes part in the consecration of a controversial new Hindu temple in Ayodhya, January 2024.
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Over the past decade, I have documented the erosion of India’s once robustly democratic legal system as part of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘authoritarian playbook’
A group of witches offering wax effigies to the Devil in a 17th-century woodcut.
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When the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting, states were quick to get in on the action. But as lawmakers grow reliant on taxes from betting, what do they owe problem gamblers?