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Apocaloptimist: Why the Barriers to AI Abundance Are Legal, Not Technical
Image from Pinterest I. The Chasm In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the team behind AlphaFold—an AI system that predicts protein structures with near-experimental accuracy, solving a problem that had resisted fifty years of scientific effort.¹ What previously took years of laboratory work now takes seconds at negligible marginal cost. Drug candidates that once required billions of dollars and more than a decade of human research are being generated in months at a
Joshua Woo
May 1216 min read
A Look Inside ANUSA’s Free Legal Service
University students deal with many complex legal issues, including tenancy problems, the need for visa advice, and potential discrimination. For most students, advice from lawyers at a law firm is financially and logistically out of reach. This is where ANUSA’s legal service comes in, a free legal service for all undergraduate and post-graduate, and domestic and international ANU students. The service is funded by ANUSA, the student union here at ANU, and is a community legal
Vivienne Roehr
May 76 min read
Civil Jury Trials and the Assessment of Damages in Institutional Abuse Claims
Victoria occupies a unique position in Australian civil litigation. It is said to be the only Australian jurisdiction that retains regular civil jury trials.[1] This procedural distinction has assumed particular significance in the context of institutional abuse claims, where, in late 2023, two Victorian Supreme Court juries returned what were regarded as the largest awards in this area: $5.94 million[2] and $3.3 million,[3] respectively. While both awards were later reduced
Hugh McSweeney
May 79 min read





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