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  1. 4 July 2022 - Engineering & Technology

    Lawyers must adapt to the age of digitalisation

    Facial recognition technology highlights the need for lawyers to be trained in the legal risks of emerging technologies say University of Melbourne experts.

  2. 30 May 2022 - Legal Affairs

    How to make it ok to record medical appointments

    While some people record medical appointments in secret, new University of Melbourne-led research is seeking to support patients and providers to do so openly

  3. 26 May 2022 - Legal Affairs

    Hearing the white noise

    We need to go beyond the institutional hypocrisy of Reconciliation Week and start addressing the racism in our law system, says University of Melbourne expert

  4. 5 May 2022 - Health & Wellbeing

    We have to stop child sexual abuse before it happens

    A University of Melbourne expert says the shorter sentences handed down for child sexual abuse in Australia tells us the system isn’t working and has to change

  5. 21 December 2021 - Legal Affairs

    Ensuring justice is done and seen to be done

    To promote public confidence, University of Melbourne research suggests courts need to reassess their test for determining potential judicial bias

  6. 15 November 2021 - Legal Affairs

    The need for more parliament in Victoria’s Pandemic Bill

    Victoria’s proposed Pandemic Management Bill gives too much power to government and not enough to parliament, say University of Melbourne experts

  7. 2 November 2021 - Legal Affairs

    Can Crown’s old habits die?

    Casino operator Crown Melbourne has been told it must reform itself – University of Melbourne expert looks at how will we be able to judge whether it has or not

  8. 25 October 2021 - Legal Affairs

    Data protection is a mental health issue for young people

    Australia’s leading use of digital technologies in youth mental health services could help inform our Privacy Act review, say University of Melbourne experts.

  9. 18 October 2021 - Legal Affairs

    Australia’s rivers are ancestral beings

    Rivers are recognised as legal persons and living entities. Experts, including University of Melbourne, say Australia's rivers are Indigenous ‘ancestral beings’

  10. 14 July 2021 - Animals, Food & You

    I’m an animal … get me out of here!

    Australia needs national legislation to better protect the welfare of animals that work in film and television, says a University of Melbourne expert