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Professor Heng Wang was recently awarded a Best Paper Prize at the Machine Lawyering Conference 2021 hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in January 2021.

UNSW researchers’ project calls for all Australian governments to take urgent action to move away from punitive approaches to crime prevention and public safety

Applications are now open for the new Displaced Scholars Peer Mentoring Program from UNSW's Kaldor Centre and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Lund University.

On the basis that ‘it’s cheaper’, Australia’s Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton, has in recent weeks released about 60 refugees into the community, a policy about-face that suddenly brought the costs of immigration detention back to the fore in Australia’s political discussion.

The coup by the military in Myanmar is invalid and confronts the people’s hope that they can live in a fully democratic society, the academics say.

It could be argued Australia's travel caps are an arbitrary restriction on Australians’ right to come home. But the UN's Human Rights Committee is not a quick fix.

The Australian government has dropped protections for language programs as universities are announcing plans to end Asian languages courses. That's a mistake in the Asian Century.

The law that is meant to safeguard cultural heritage should change with time to accommodate evolving human behaviour and our relationships with culture, says UNSW Law’s Lucas Lixinski.

Australia's new voluntary code of practice to make IoT devices more secure may expose consumers to greater risks.