2025 Whitmore Lecture

The 2025 COAT NSW Whitmore Lecture will be held on the evening of 21 May 2025. Professor Tania Sourdin, a distinguished academic and tribunal member, will be speaking on the subject of artificial intelligence as it pertains to the tribunal context. This will follow on from the twilight seminars.

Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the lecture. The lecture will also be available online. Please register by 16 May latest.

The lecture, titled ‘Artificial Intelligence and Tribunals’, will be delivered by Professor Tania Sourdin BA, LLB, LLM, PhD FAAL. Following on from the twilight seminars referred to below, this lecture explores how AI can enhance tribunal operations. Through a consideration of the user journey, the use of supportive, replacement and disruptive technologies are explored with the identification of opportunities and risks. The seminar touches on regulatory requirements, governance arrangements and draws upon international developments in AI to consider how Courts and Tribunals can change to meet the needs of their AI engaged communities.

Professor Sourdin is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of more than 160 publications including books, articles and papers, that are focussed on justice reform issues. She has presented on a range of topics including justice innovation, AI and technology and law.

She has had a number of projects that have explored the use of AI in the justice system since 2003 and the role of a human judge. Her book “Judges, Technology and AI” was published in 2021.

She has recently focused on regulation and AI with a number of articles that consider governance as well as risk assessment and she is retained by a number of professional organisations and often presents her work to judges and lawyers internationally and within Australia. She is currently an expert advisor on the Victorian Law Reform Commission Artificial Intelligence in Victorian Courts and Tribunals project and has also been involved in the Human Rights Commission project on Neurotechnology and Human Rights. She has maintained a busy practice and undertakes work for both the Commonwealth and State governments as a mediator and adjudicator. Since 2014, she has also been the NBN Industry Dispute Resolution Advisor and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney.

Please join us for this signature event in the COAT NSW annual calendar.

Sorry, Registration for this event closed at 5pm, 16/05/2025

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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