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Professor Johns will be a terrific Dean of the Sydney Law School @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Welcome back @fleurjohns.bsky.social! #auslaw #internationallaw www.sydney.edu.au/law/news-and...

For those interested in free access to legal information, AustLII Co-Directors Philip Chung and Andrew Mowbray were today honoured by being appointed as Members of the Order of Australia (AM). The AustLII Media Release concerning the appointments is at: www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

@austlii.edu.au is delighted to announce that it’s Co-Directors Professor Andrew Mowbray and Professor Philip Chung have been made Members of the Order of Australia in the recent Australia Day awards www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

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NSW community justice centres will be scrapped next year - it’s enshittification in action | Graeme Gibson

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#ff Black Friday deal of the day thanks to @austlii.edu.au ;-) #followfriday #auslaw #legalaid #legal #law #lawsky #australia ☂️

Black Friday Special - Free access to legal resources @austlii.edu.au TODAY ... and every other day 😁

Someone put @djag2.bsky.social and me in charge of organising ANZSIL this year and it's gonna be fun. Theme and save the date out now - call for papers coming soon. There will be trivia! Hopefully a very special dinner! And of course papers and panels galore - please repost and save the dates.

A new preprint of mine 'The new data protection Convention 108+ and its importance for Asia' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=... assesses which Asian countries, of 17 with data privacy laws, might be able to accede to 108+. So far, none have tried.

The report of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) (222 pgs) www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... is worth looking at from many perspectives, including high risk AI; sovereign foundation AI models; copyright interests; & automated decision-making.

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This is really bad policy on the run - we’ve been fighting it because of its far-reaching adverse effects www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

And we're out! The final episode of Season 1 of #CalledToTheBar is live and it's time for end of year drinks! So proud of all we've achieved this year, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social , @drnajimagi.bsky.social and @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Absolutely amazing research conducted by Pierre Dewitte on #privacy by design and by default and case law on it by national supervisory authorities. Research paper- techreg.org/article/view... Excel file with analysis of decisions by supervisory authorities: doi.org/10.48804/23M...

Tonight’s viewing - the Joint Symposium of the @science.org.au and Aus Academy of Law at the Shine Dome

You can’t tell me law isn’t entertaining! 😀

Katharine_Kemp and I asses the defects (and a few virtues) of 'Australia's long-delayed privacy reform Bill - First instalment only?' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=... Will it get enacted before the election?

We are launching our End of Year Appeal. If you value our service please consider making a donation secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/co...

An article by me now posted on SSRN: 'EU AI Act: Brussels Effect(s) or a Race to the Bottom?' ssrn.com/abstract=497... [Just testing Bluesky functions]

India does not yet have a functioning DPA, but its Competition Commission (CCI) has just hit Meta with a 213.4 crore (24M euros) fine for a privacy-related breach cci.gov.in/antitrust/pr... The Data Protection Board of India (DPBI) has not yet been created, a year after the Act.

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🧵 1. It's only a month before the Courts close the year, but before they do, there are several judgments we can expect will be delivered! In no particular order: Moira Deeming v John Pesutto (His Honour said he expected to deliver judgment by the 1st week in December)

For all my fellow law nerds, I’ll be trying something new on this platform. One of my favourite things to do is catch up on recent judgments around the country. I’ll be screenshotting catchwords with links to recent apex courts’ decisions in each State/Territory.

Here is a brief background to @austlii.edu.au. AustLII provides a comprehensive integrated collection of Australian legal information, enabling effective free and anonymous access to law for the community. It contains over 1,000 databases of full-text primary and secondary legal materials. AustLII:

Earlier this year we asked Australia's major law firms to boost their financial support for @austlii.edu.au. We are delighted that many have done so. We particularly thank Allens, King & Wood Mallesons, Herbert Smith Freehills, Clayton Utz, Ashurst, Gilbert+Tobin, and DLA Piper for their support.

@austlii.edu.au has joined the blue butterfly. We will maintain our Twitter feed for a while but will seek to increase our presence here.