M D Kirby
Biographic Data
| ID | 4987509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D Kirby |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirby |
| SIGNATURE | KIRBY M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Family Court of Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Colloquium
Human Rights – The Challenge of New Technology
Three important scientific developments, nuclear physics, biotechnology and informatics, have a profound potential to affect, improve or destroy human life. Many scientists are aware of these implications, but, the author argues, lawyers are not sufficiently involved in the debate about the effect of scientific progress on human rights. The present debate on human rights is still centered on those proposed by 17th-century philosophers. The role o…
Aids legislation--turning up the heat
This paper is not about the medical condition of AIDS. Nor is it about the history of the condition since it was first reported in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981. It looks rather, at the catalogue of legislative and other legal responses to the spread of AIDS. The paper analyses the AIDS condition in its historical context. The hysteria accompanying the outbreak of AIDS is contrasted with the similar hysteria associated with other previous epidemics ex…
Informatics and Law Reform
The Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission identifies science and technology as one of the main factors necessitating reform of the law in Australia. The way in which informatics, one of the most dynamic technologies of today, has penetrated Australian society is described. The implications of this technology for two major projects before the Australian Law Reform Commission are then outlined. The first is the design of new laws to prot…
Towards the New Federal Administrative Law
Psychology and the law
Aids legislation--turning up the heat
This paper is not about the medical condition of AIDS. Nor is it about the history of the condition since it was first reported in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981. It looks rather, at the catalogue of legislative and other legal responses to the spread of AIDS. The paper analyses the AIDS condition in its historical context. The hysteria accompanying the outbreak of AIDS is contrasted with the similar hysteria associated with other previous epidemics ex…
Psychology and the law
Towards the New Federal Administrative Law
Informatics and Law Reform
The Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission identifies science and technology as one of the main factors necessitating reform of the law in Australia. The way in which informatics, one of the most dynamic technologies of today, has penetrated Australian society is described. The implications of this technology for two major projects before the Australian Law Reform Commission are then outlined. The first is the design of new laws to prot…
Aids legislation--turning up the heat
This paper is not about the medical condition of AIDS. Nor is it about the history of the condition since it was first reported in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981. It looks rather, at the catalogue of legislative and other legal responses to the spread of AIDS. The paper analyses the AIDS condition in its historical context. The hysteria accompanying the outbreak of AIDS is contrasted with the similar hysteria associated with other previous epidemics ex…
Human Rights – The Challenge of New Technology
Three important scientific developments, nuclear physics, biotechnology and informatics, have a profound potential to affect, improve or destroy human life. Many scientists are aware of these implications, but, the author argues, lawyers are not sufficiently involved in the debate about the effect of scientific progress on human rights. The present debate on human rights is still centered on those proposed by 17th-century philosophers. The role o…
Colloquium
Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Legislature (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 works) · Appeal (1 works)