A research-and-translation hub studying how intelligent systems reshape law — and how law can shape them toward human flourishing.
Law & Intelligent Systems Lab — an initiative hosted by the School of Law, Western Sydney University.
An interdisciplinary research-and-translation hub for how intelligent systems reshape law, institutions and society — and how the law can shape them toward human flourishing. Our work is legally grounded, technically literate, and impact-oriented — carrying research through to policy, practice and public benefit.
The questions that will define legal systems in an algorithmic era.
Accountability, transparency, safety, auditability and risk governance where the consequences for people are greatest.
Translating ‘responsible AI’ from principle into enforceable standards and professional obligations.
How AI will transform legal practice, the labour market and what it means to be an AI-ready lawyer.
Protecting rights in AI-mediated systems, with attention to vulnerable and First Nations communities.
Ensuring automated legal help expands access rather than entrenching a divide between those who can and can't afford it.
How teaching, assessment and academic integrity should evolve when AI is ubiquitous.
A legal scholar working at the intersection of law, AI and emerging technologies. Dr Alimardani researches how courts, regulators and the profession should respond to intelligent systems, and sets the Lab's research and translation agenda — keeping its work legally grounded, technically literate and impact-oriented.
A legal academic whose work spans criminal justice, evidence and the regulation of emerging technologies. Dr Sassine co-leads the Lab's research program and its access-to-justice initiatives, connecting rigorous legal analysis with real-world practice and reform.
Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour at Western Sydney University's School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences. A leading voice on cybersecurity, data and the human dimensions of technology, she strengthens the Lab's technical depth and security focus.
A professor of law specialising in international law, national security and human rights. He brings deep expertise in accountability, oversight and rights protection to the Lab's work on intelligent systems in high-stakes settings.
Roundtables and interdisciplinary convenings where law, technology and society meet to confront the questions intelligent systems raise.
AI is reshaping questions across nearly every field at once. The School of Law is hosting an informal gathering for academics from all disciplines to share a short position on how AI is showing up in their work, network over morning tea, and explore where collaborative projects might take shape.
No formal paper required. The aim isn’t to reach conclusions on the day, but to find out whether there’s real appetite and overlap for interdisciplinary AI-related work, and to let those connections form naturally.
Professor Philippa Webb KC, from the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, addresses how AI can help close the global “justice gap” — the stark divide between those who need legal protection and those who can access it. Lawyers do not tend to be first movers on technology, but AI is moving fast and justice needs to catch up. Philippa will share how the Institute is building AI-powered legal tools for vulnerable populations, including women and children in Malawi and journalists at risk for doing their job. She will also highlight the benefits and risks of AI when it enters the courtroom and the principles that can guide responsible deployment.
This will be followed by a panel exploring the challenges and solutions for building AI tools that are impactful, sustainable and meaningful to the individuals who use them. Panellists include Prof. Philippa Webb, Prof. Athula Ginige, Dr Armin Alimardani and Dr Jacinta Sassine.
Cutting through the AI noise for the legal community — a swift news roundup paired with a deeper dive, every episode.
Each episode blends a swift news roundup — new tools, real-world case studies, and controversies worth unpacking — with a deeper dive on a single theme, from courtroom use of generative AI to law-school curricula, in-house adoption, and day-to-day workflow design.
Hosted by voices from academia and legal operations, with regular guest contributors, we focus on clarity, practical takeaways, and critical thinking over hype. Whether you teach law, study it, or practice in firms, courts, or corporate teams, you’ll leave informed, sparked with ideas, and better equipped for where legal work is headed.
A space where law students and academics get hands-on experience using AI models and building applications for legal education and research — sometimes alongside students. Two of the tools we’ve built so far:
A real-time multiplayer game where students race characters toward the correct answer while competing with classmates — a low-cost, customisable take on the classroom quiz.
Open app
A game for practising how to audit AI-generated writing. Each passage hides deliberate factual errors, and students use critical thinking to spot the hallucinations.
Open appPartner on co-designed projects, join a working group, or invite us to advise. We collaborate with government, courts, industry, the profession and communities.