Call for Papers: Monash 2nd Annual Digital Law Symposium, 14 November 2025
Co-hosted by the Monash Law School and Deakin Law School
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2nd Monash Annual Digital Law
Symposium, this year to be co-hosted by Monash Law School and Deakin Law School.
Dates and venue
Friday 14 November 2025, 9.30am to 5.00pm
Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St Melbourne
Symposium Overview and Aims
This conference seeks to generate a discussion about the future of digital regulation and
governance and the use of technology in and related to the law within Australia and/or
internationally.
We invite submissions that engage with, but are not limited to, the following themes:
• The implications of privacy law reforms for digital rights in Australia
• A Digital Duty of Care for Online Platforms
• AI regulation/governance
• Online safety laws, including reflections on the relationship between privacy and
safety in addressing online harms, recent court challenges by X against the E-Safety
Commissioner and the implementation of the social media ban for Under-16s in
Australia
• Protections against surveillance and mass data collection
• Regulation of mis and disinformation
• Human rights in the Digital Age, particularly the right to freedom of expression and
the right to non-discrimination
• The use of generative AI in legal practice, legal academia, or legal education.
Submission Guidelines
If you would like to take part in this symposium, please submit an abstract and short bio to
Maria O’Sullivan at m.osullivan@deakin.edu.au by Friday 29 August.
For more details, refer here
