AI Revolution in Law seminars

COAT NSW is organising a series of twilight seminars, titled AI Revolution in Law, concerning the impact of artificial intelligence and its practical application for tribunals and the legal profession.

The series consists of two seminars and the Whitmore Lecture, and aims to provide practical and relevant information about the ways in which AI is being used and will likely be used in legal practice generally. It also aims to flag issues that courts and tribunals will face with the increased use of AI, as well as opportunities for using AI within courts and tribunals.

The first seminar was titled Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Courts, Tribunals and Lawyers on 19 February with speaker Caryn Sandler.

The second seminar is titled: Artificial Intelligence: Practical Applications and Professional Impacts. 

The seminar will feature a panel of distinguished speakers discussing the practical applications and professional impacts of artificial intelligence, particularly concerning how it affects the work of tribunals.

Date: Thursday 10 April 2025 @ 5pm
Location: Personal Injury Commission, Level 8, 1 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (and online)

The panel consists of the following speakers:

Professor Daniel Ghezelbash is a Professor and the Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow. He is an internationally recognised scholar of international and comparative refugee and migration law and one of Australia’s leading experts on legal technology and access to justice. He is the co-founder of Hear Me Out, one of the world’s first direct-to-consumer Generative AI powered legal self-help tools, which aims to harness the power of complaint making to combat systemic discrimination in Australia (built in collaboration with the National Justice Project). He is also a founder and board member of the Access to Justice and Technology Network, which promotes and supports the uptake of legal technology in Australia’s not-for-profit legal sector. Through his work at the Kaldor Centre Data Lab, he has pioneered computational and data-driven approaches to studying administrative and judicial decision-making in refugee cases. Daniel is Special Counsel at the National Justice Project, and sits on the boards of Refugee Advice and Casework Service and Wallumatta Legal.

Deputy President Shahyar Roushan is a Deputy President and List Leader at the Administrative Review Tribunal. Previously, he was a Senior Member and National Practice Leader at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and prior to that a Senior Member of the Refugee and Migration Review Tribunals. Until June 2024, he was also a Senior Member (Legal) of the Guardianship Division at NCAT.

Dr Erika Penney is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology Sydney. She is part of the UTS GenAI ENHANCE team, enabling networks of health professionals to create and evaluate opportunities in GenAI, and was awarded two UTS Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Awards for interprofessionalism and digital technologies in mental health. She is a Board Director and the Ethics Chair of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA), and Clinical Chair of the NSW-ACT Psychology Placement Consortium (NAPC), and is a nationally recognised educator and leader in Artificial Intelligence in mental health.

Ms Alisa Kelley is the Registrar of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal. Her professional background is in general management and operations, specialising in systems and process improvement. She has held senior management roles across a variety of industries including construction, logistics, education and recycling. She has also worked extensively in the charitable sector, providing finance and operational support to The Ethics Centre and holding a key role in the establishment and growth of Primary Ethics, an organisation created to delivery ethics classes to primary school children in NSW.  She brings to the Tribunal a broad range of skills including strategic planning, property management, HR, governance and in particular, IT. She is a data nerd and has a particular passion for systems analysis.

If you would like to submit any questions for the panel to consider ahead of the seminar, please email nswchapter@coat.asn.au with the subject heading ‘AI-2 Q&A’ by 7 April latest.

Bookings close 7 April. Any issues with access, late bookings after this date, or enquiries, please contact Shaleen on 0401 917 616 or Shaleen.siwan-prasad@pi.nsw.gov.au. Please note our Secretariat will be on leave for a couple of weeks 9-23 April.

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