Professor Kieran Tranter
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Kieran is the Chair of Law, Technology and Future in the School of Law. Kieran joined the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology in 2019 and is the founding General Editor of Law, Technology and Humans. He is director of the Human Technology Law Centre. Kieran researches law, technology and the future. Drawing upon the humanities, he explores how humans legislate, live with, and are changed by technology. In researching law, technology, and the future his research often engages with cultural narratives that connect humans, law and technology across time. The goal of Kieran's research is to shape humanity’s technological future to be better than its technological past.Prior to this appointment Kieranwas an Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. At Griffith Law School he served in many roles: HDR Convenor, Acting Centre Director and Deputy Head of School Research and Managing Editor of the Griffith Law Review. He commenced at Griffith in 2003 having previously been a Lecturer and Social Justice coordinator at the College of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle from 1999 to 2002.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Law and Technology, Law and Humanities, Socio-legal Studies, Automation, Digital Legality and Digital Decision Making, Cultural Studies, Pop Culture Studies, Games Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Automobilty, Car Culture, Road Safety and Transport Justice, Australian Public Law, Legal Theory
Research field
Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Griffith University)
Teaching
Kieran has taught extensively into the LLB curriculum at law schools in Queensland and Western Australia. His teaching areas have been Administrative Law, Civil Procedure and Legal Theory. He has taught electives in Law and Culture and Law Reform. At QUT he coordinates the Law Thesis Research Extension subject that provides a pathway into HDR programs. In 2018 Kieran was awarded a Group Learning and Teaching Citation by Griffith University for his leadership in the Law Reform elective that facilitated students developing experience in research impact through the drafting and submitting of reform submissions. He previously was awarded a Group Learning and Teaching Citation by Griffith University in 2011 for his leadership of the team that successfully redesigned and taught the legal theory courses to address student engagement and satisfaction concerns. Kieran is particularly proud of his achievements as a HDR supervisor and the successes of his HDR candidates. In recognition of his demonstrated quality supervision practices he was awarded in 2017 a Group Research Supervision Award by Griffith University.
Publications
- Anthony, T., Sherwood, J., Blagg, H. & Tranter, K. (2024). Unsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245061
- Robb, L. & Tranter, K. (2024). Hype and cultural imaginary in law and technology. In B. Brozek, P. Palka & O. Kanevskaia (Eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Technology (pp. 128–140). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245646
- Tranter, K., (2024). Playing the World Picture: Sid Meier’s Civilization and the Law of Abstraction. In D. Mitchell, A. Pearson & TD. Peters (Eds.), Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Law (pp. 172–189). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243807
- Deane, F., Woolmer, E., Cao, S. & Tranter, K. (2024). Trade in the Digital Age: Agreements to Mitigate Fragmentation. Asian Journal of International Law, 14(1), 154–179. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/242264
- Tranter, K. & Marusek, S. (2023). Cars and Hate: Legal Semiotics of Automobility and Combustion Masculinity. In A. Wagner & S. Marusek (Eds.), Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics (pp. 376–393). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244892
- Masterton, G., Flood, J., Rathus, Z. & Tranter, K. (2024). 'I didn’t have a chance': perceptions of the attitudes and roles of legal professionals for women involved in Hague international child abduction cases. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 31(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/239422
- Masterton, G., Brady, M., Watson-Brown, N., Senserrick, T. & Tranter, K. (2023). Driver Licences, Diversionary Programs and Transport Justice for First Nations Peoples in Australia. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12(3), 93–107. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243495
- Brown, A., Bennett, B., Brady, M., Tranter, K. & Butler, D. (2023). Regulating future driving: Automated vehicles and the harmonisation of Australian laws. Monash University Law Review, 48(3), 1–24. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243602
- Tranter, K., (2023). Sisyphus and the Present: Time in Modern and Digital Legalities. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 36(2), 373–384. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/233137
- Goding, V. & Tranter, K. (2023). The Robot and Human Futures: Visualising Autonomy in Law and Science Fiction. Law and Critique, 34(3), 315–340. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243492
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kieran, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Dean's Highly Commended Certificate Learning and Teaching, Arts,Education and Law Group, Griffith University
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Invited Keynote ¿Shakespeare, Media and the Future of Law¿ Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference Curtain University, 4-6 July 2018.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Research Supervision Award, Arts, Education and Law Group, Griffith University
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Associate Editor International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 2016-
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Group Teaching and Learning Citation, Arts, Education and Law Group, Griffith University
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Managing Editor Griffith Law Review 2007-2011
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Academic Excellence Award for Doctorial Studies, Griffith University
Supervision
Looking for a postgraduate research supervisor?
I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
- Cultural Legalities of Social Media and Mobile Digital Devices in the Global South
- Cultural Legalities of Social Media and Mobile Digital Devices in the Global South
You can browse existing student topics offered by QUT or propose your own topic.
Current supervisions
- The Law of LAWS: Achieving Legality for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Guihot, Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari - ‘Unsuccessful Ageing’: Marginalising Constructions of Dementia In Australian Public and Legal Aged Care Discourse
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Shih-Ning Then - Social Media Misconduct Dismissals: First Instance Employment Decisions as Record of Racism in Contemporary South African Workplaces
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Anna Huggins - A Living Jurisdiction? The common law jurisdiction of the High Court of Australia in the 21st Century
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Lucy Cradduck - The law, artificial intelligence, and the influence of underlying ideologies
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Guihot, Dr Lachlan Robb - The Legality of The Child in Contemporary Japanese Anime
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari - Can Behavioural Law and Economics provide Valuable Insights to CASA’s Regulation of General Aviation?
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Felicity Deane, Dr Nigel Stobbs - Superhero Comics, Queered Cultural Legal Studies and Visual Jurisprudence: How DC Comics Visualises Changing Law
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Mr Mark Thomas, Professor Matthew Ball - A Comparative Study on the Role of Consumer Protection Law in the Regulation of Automated Vehicles in Australia and China
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Associate Professor Michael Guihot
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Tracing the contextual factors that shape the use of workplace wearables (2023)
- A Cultural Legal Study of Speech Legality in Australian Film from the 1970s to 2010 (2022)
- The Impacts on the Lives of Women and Children Who Have Experienced Domestic and Family Violence and Been Subject to the Hague Convention Legal Process (2022)
- Legal Adaptability to Disruptive Technology: A Case Study of Australian Law in Relation to Harm and Automated Vehicles (2021)
- The Right to Social Security in Pilipino Law: Legality, Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Adaptability (2021)
- Legal Personhood in Video Games, Canonical Media and Fandom (2019)
- The Australian Constitution, Originalism and the Dismissal (2019)
- Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force: an Informational Approach (2017)
- The Representation of Lawyers and Lawyering in Hong Kong Television Dramas (2017)
- Reading The Law Made Strange: A Theological Jurisprudence of Popular Culture (2014)