MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2026
8:30 – 9:15am
Registration
Law School Foyer
9:15 – 9:30am
Welcome
9:30 – 10:30am
Plenary Panel: Digital Public Values
Chair: Alexandra Sinclair
AI and the Public Sector
Jake Goldenfein
Roles of Human Oversight
Emma Finlay
Using AI in the government “back office”: How AI systems are changing government decision-making’
Scarlet Wilcock and Nina Boughey
10:30 – 11:00am
Morning Tea
11:00am – 12:00pm
Regulating digital platforms: The digital duty of care and content moderation
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From Policy Commitment to Regulatory Design: Where is Australia’s Digital Duty of Care Going?
Calvin Collins and Christine Parker
Safeguarding against scams: how consumers’ experiences of social media advertising on social media platforms can inform the regulation of digital platforms
Lina Przdetsky and Christine Parker
The Human Rights Implications of Crowd-Sourced Content Moderation
Maria O’Sullivan
The New Guardians of Truth: Extending Australia’s Digital Duty of Care to Epistemic Harms
Mariam Nadeem
AI and the state: Police facial recognition technology and judicial AI
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Governance of live facial recognition use by law enforcement in the UK and Ireland: a patchwork mirror of Australia and New Zealand?
Angela Daly
Governance and regulation of police use of facial recognition software in the UK and NSW
Justin Ellis
Hidden in Plain Sight: Dual-Reading Documents and the Integrity of AI-Assisted Sentencing
Armin Ashenberg
Rethinking Judicial Independence in AI Assisted Courts: When Does AI Become an Improper Influence?
Mohammad Reza Winata
12:00 – 1:00pm
AI infrastructure and the environment
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Digital Infrastructures and Regulatory Contestation: Unpacking NSW Legislative Inquiry into Data Centres
Sonia Qadir
Unlocking the AI Stack Bottleneck: Reorienting Australia’s Regulatory Strategies towards an Open and Interoperable Cloud Platform Layer
Priyanshi
AI Environmental Transparency: Towards a New Principle of Digital Governance
George Tian
Carriers of the AI Era: the mandatory registration of compute operators
Rob Nicholls
AI and legal practice
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“Forced to Jump?”: Barristers, GenAI, and the Governance of Legal Practice
Felicity Bell and Justine Rogers
How Unqualified Practice Rules Perpetuate Unsafe Legal AI
Vijhai Grayan
The Sandboxed Advocate: Dedicated Legal Research Tablets (LRT), Procedural Fairness, and Pro Se Litigation
Mini Malekpour
Law Reform: Governing AI Use in Consumer-Level Contracting
Alicia Wright and Reiko Okazaki
1:00 – 1:45pm
Lunch
1:45 – 2:30pm
Discrimination, equality and gender
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‘Disrespectful’, ‘Discouraging’ and ‘Unfair’: The Impact of AI in Recruitment on Marginalised Candidates
Natalie Sheard
Beyond Debiasing: Substantive Equality and Gender-Responsive AI Regulation
Ramona Vijeyarasa
Representational Harm in AI-Generated Images: The Limits of Existing Laws in Addressing Cumulative Harm
Sadia Sharmin
AI and Media
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Pluralism, media and public debate
Andrew Kenyon
Governing the Infantile Citizen: Streaming Regulation and the Template of Indian Media Law
Shubhangi Heda
Seeing is believing? The evidentiary value of photographs and the rise of generative AI
Naomi Smith and Clare Sutherton
2:35 – 3:30pm
Models of AI Regulation and AI Sovereignty
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Mitigation is not Justification: Incommensurability, Proportionality, and the Risk-Based Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Stergios Aidinlis
SUPERIOREM (NON) RECOGNOSCENS: FORMS OF SOVEREIGNTY FOR THE DIGITAL AGE
Sergio Sulmicelli
Digital and AI regulation under Australia’s proposed digital competition regime: expectations, recommendations and lessons learnt from Europe
Anna Moskal and Chris Marsden
AI agents and the corporate form
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The Ordinary Reasonable Agent: Agentic Commerce and Australian Market Conduct Law
Gabriella Rubagotti
Charter, Control, Compute, Constitution: What Governs AI?
Alexandra Andhov
Agentic AI: Legal responsibility for harms caused by AI agents
Hui Chia
3:30 – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00 – 5:00pm
Final plenary- An Australian approach to digital regulation?
Chair: Kimberlee Weatherall
The Canberra Effect? Examining Australia’s new ‘world leading’ digital laws, regulatory adaption and arbitrage
Chris Marsden
Where to for information privacy in Australia’s regulatory response to AI?
David Watts
Defining AI systems for the purposes of law
Lyria Bennett Moses
5:30 – 7:30pm
Reception
TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER 2026
9:00am – 12:00pm
Law x Business Innovation Workshop
Facilitator: Rachel Kessel
This three-hour interactive workshop will challenge participants to use law, business thinking and AI together to solve a real-world challenge involving an unmet legal or social need.
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Participants will rapidly develop an innovative solution that uses legal knowledge creatively – for example, to improve access to justice, make legal services more accessible or affordable, redesign the delivery of legal assistance, or identify a new commercial opportunity created by law, regulation or legal expertise. The workshop will follow a Think First, AI Second model. Teams will initially work under time pressure without generative AI, drawing on their collective legal, commercial and creative judgment to understand the problem, identify opportunities and develop an initial solution. Only once teams have committed to an idea will they use AI. to refine their proposal and deliver a short pitch.
Developed and facilitated by Rachel Kessel, Senior Lecturer in Law at Monash University, the workshop will draw on the expertise of Satish Tadikonda and William Marks of the Harvard Business School (remote attendance subject to availability).
Places are limited to 32 in-person participants – please secure your place by indicating your interest when registering for the Symposium online. You will be contacted to confirm your place.