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A dispute resolution software startup has won an entrepreneur shark tank competition promoting tech innovation within the legal industry.

Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, Director at The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at UNSW, explains the legal terminology of AI, and increasing concerns about facial recognition software.

An international legal summit co-sponsored by UNSW Law earlier this month brought together legal practitioners and technology experts to better understand and compare important issues in technology governance worldwide.

Autonomous weapons are cheap and fast but there is rising concern at their ability to make decisions that value human life.

A panel of experts at a UNSW Alumni event discussed the role artificial intelligence already plays within our society.

UNSW Law students will showcase their own digital legal applications when they compete at the end of their ‘Designing Technology Solutions for Access to Justice’ course.

Two new strategic alliances between UNSW and Allens and the Law Society of NSW will aim to tackle the challenges of technological change and its impact on lawyers, law and the legal system.Two new strategic alliances between UNSW Sydney and each of Allens and the Law Society of New South Wales will aim to tackle some of the increasingly complex challenges presented by digital and other technological transformations and their impact on lawyers, law and the legal system.  

The University of NSW has unveiled a major legal research centre backed by national law firm Allens and the state Law Society that will focus on innovation and technology within society and the legal profession.The centre, to be known as the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, is supported financially by a five-year commitment from the Law Society of $250,000 a year as well as an undisclosed sum from Allens.

An app providing information about fines has been named the winner of a showcase featuring students of UNSW Law's new course using state-of-the-art legal technology. An app that can quickly and easily provide those working in a community legal centre with legal information about the payment of parking and other fines was on Tuesday named best app at a student showcase held by UNSW Law.The students were among the first cohort in the Faculty’s “Designing Technology Solutions for Access to Justice” course.