Julian Webb
@julianinoz.bsky.social
Law prof at UniMelb; lawyers/legal ethics, digital tech/reg, civil justice, empirical research. HREC Chair, Grampians Health. Recovering legal education geek.Trainee lavender grower, 💙art and books. Dja Dja Wurrung country #firstgen
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Julian Webb
@julianinoz.bsky.social
· Jan 30
"Informative, inspiring and ambitious, Leading Works is a landmark work in legal ethics... The wide-ranging and thought-provoking territory that the book covers make it an invaluable resource..."
- Amy Salyzyn, JOTWELL (Jan. 29, 2025) (reviewing Webb (ed), Leading Works in Legal Ethics, Routledge).
- Amy Salyzyn, JOTWELL (Jan. 29, 2025) (reviewing Webb (ed), Leading Works in Legal Ethics, Routledge).
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"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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From the latest issue - The legal profession offers its members a special identity in exchange for prolonged education and regulatory oversight. This article explores how the emergence of #GenAI challenges that promise and the profession’s meaning and value #LegalProfession
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
From the latest issue - The legal profession offers its members a special identity in exchange for prolonged education and regulatory oversight. This article explores how the emergence of #GenAI challenges that promise and the profession’s meaning and value #LegalProfession
🔗 doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
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Some reflections from Jacqueline Peel, Nicole Rogers and myself about the failure of the proposed EPBC Act reforms to requirement assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuel projects
Labor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Some reflections from Jacqueline Peel, Nicole Rogers and myself about the failure of the proposed EPBC Act reforms to requirement assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuel projects
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This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says
Stephen Gageler warns the speed of AI’s development could be outstripping people’s ability to ‘comprehend its potential risks and rewards’
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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Supreme Court of Western Australia has finally issued its guidelines to litigants and practitioners on the use of Gen AI. Very similar to the general principles approach in Vic/Qld with shades of NSW. It’s not a practice note. Nothing directed to judges, which is a shame. See my recent article.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Supreme Court of Western Australia has finally issued its guidelines to litigants and practitioners on the use of Gen AI. Very similar to the general principles approach in Vic/Qld with shades of NSW. It’s not a practice note. Nothing directed to judges, which is a shame. See my recent article.
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"The fossil fuel lobby has learned from the tobacco industry's tactics. It knows that denying manmade climate change is no longer credible.
"The mission is simply to delay climate action...to continue to make profits from the damage they do."
- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM #auspol
"The mission is simply to delay climate action...to continue to make profits from the damage they do."
- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM #auspol
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"The fossil fuel lobby has learned from the tobacco industry's tactics. It knows that denying manmade climate change is no longer credible.
"The mission is simply to delay climate action...to continue to make profits from the damage they do."
- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM #auspol
"The mission is simply to delay climate action...to continue to make profits from the damage they do."
- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM #auspol
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? This is mine... *chef's kiss* open.spotify.com/album/4WD4ps...
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? This is mine... *chef's kiss* open.spotify.com/album/4WD4ps...
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"Anthropic said, with “high confidence,” it identified the threat actor as a Chinese state-sponsored group that successfully manipulated its Claude Code tool into attempting to infiltrate about 30 global... tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies."
Anthropic says it 'disrupted' what it calls 'the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention' | Fortune
"Attackers used AI’s 'agentic' capabilities to an unprecedented degree—using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves."
fortune.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Anthropic said, with “high confidence,” it identified the threat actor as a Chinese state-sponsored group that successfully manipulated its Claude Code tool into attempting to infiltrate about 30 global... tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies."
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A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:
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Ethics and profits clash “regularly”, say general counsel zurl.co/xxJKK
Ethics and profits clash “regularly”, say general counsel
Most general counsel at large UK companies have said that ethical and moral concerns “regularly” come into conflict with “profit motivations”.
zurl.co
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ethics and profits clash “regularly”, say general counsel zurl.co/xxJKK
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I'll only add that Harvey's valuation is insane. Law schools should do their due diligence before partnering with Harvey (they mostly won't).
Harvey.AI is courting law schools like Westlaw/Lexis once did, but do we really need it? After a demo, my verdict: it's ChatGPT in a black turtleneck. Good for firms needing secure doc review & RAG, but law students can already do most of this with existing tools. matthewsag.com/do-law-schoo...
Do law schools need Harvey.AI? – Matthew Sag
matthewsag.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'll only add that Harvey's valuation is insane. Law schools should do their due diligence before partnering with Harvey (they mostly won't).
There is no smell of living thing,only the trace
Of an empire long forgotten, bleeding
Stone out of the dead land.
A frown and wrinkled lip lie shattered,
Half-hidden, a lip that lies, lied once bidding
All in a voice of cold command.
Where are you now,
But in the shadow of monuments?
Of an empire long forgotten, bleeding
Stone out of the dead land.
A frown and wrinkled lip lie shattered,
Half-hidden, a lip that lies, lied once bidding
All in a voice of cold command.
Where are you now,
But in the shadow of monuments?
Hwaet! a strider from sore agéd strand
Speaking of stone shattered shanks
Hard by hewn and haughty highbrowed
Sternly showing the sculptor's sight
Memory of might majestic
Cold and clear calling to conquered
Lost and lowly now lingering looks
OZYMANDIAS' ornament orders
Despair and doom
Speaking of stone shattered shanks
Hard by hewn and haughty highbrowed
Sternly showing the sculptor's sight
Memory of might majestic
Cold and clear calling to conquered
Lost and lowly now lingering looks
OZYMANDIAS' ornament orders
Despair and doom
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There is no smell of living thing,only the trace
Of an empire long forgotten, bleeding
Stone out of the dead land.
A frown and wrinkled lip lie shattered,
Half-hidden, a lip that lies, lied once bidding
All in a voice of cold command.
Where are you now,
But in the shadow of monuments?
Of an empire long forgotten, bleeding
Stone out of the dead land.
A frown and wrinkled lip lie shattered,
Half-hidden, a lip that lies, lied once bidding
All in a voice of cold command.
Where are you now,
But in the shadow of monuments?
Some good news for a change: Cheers as historic treaty with First Nations people passes Victorian parliament search.app/PJB1G
Cheers as Victoria legislates historic treaty with First Nations people
The upper house of state parliament erupted in cheers last night when vote was passed and the politicians w...
search.app
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Some good news for a change: Cheers as historic treaty with First Nations people passes Victorian parliament search.app/PJB1G
Human Rights Commission calls for neurotech safeguards www.innovationaus.com/human-rights...
Human Rights Commission calls for neurotech safeguards
Australia's privacy laws should be updated urgently to protect neural data, the Australian Human Rights Commission has warned in a landmark report calling for new safeguards on the nascent technology....
www.innovationaus.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Human Rights Commission calls for neurotech safeguards www.innovationaus.com/human-rights...
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Law firm that cited fake AI-generated cases to pay wasted costs zurl.co/7yJ1H
Law firm that cited fake AI-generated cases to pay wasted costs
A law firm has been ordered to pay wasted costs after it cited two fictitious cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.
zurl.co
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Law firm that cited fake AI-generated cases to pay wasted costs zurl.co/7yJ1H
Great, now AI slop porn is, apparently, an essential step towards superintelligence. And this from a co that once pretended it was committed to AI for social good! If only this were satire...
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Great, now AI slop porn is, apparently, an essential step towards superintelligence. And this from a co that once pretended it was committed to AI for social good! If only this were satire...
ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find
Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Important piece by @lookheron.bsky.social tracing how the steady neoliberalization of higher education has sowed fertile ground for its takeover by authoritarians
Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.
The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education
Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…
lpeproject.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Important piece by @lookheron.bsky.social tracing how the steady neoliberalization of higher education has sowed fertile ground for its takeover by authoritarians
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This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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"Trial Separation: Courtroom Lawyers Are Breaking Up With Big Law," a very interesting WSJ story on prominent biglaw litigation partners starting boutique firms. Gift link:
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Trial Separation: Courtroom Lawyers Are Breaking Up With Big Law
Top litigators are leaving elite firms to start boutique firms, a trend that is accelerating in the Trump era.
www.wsj.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Trial Separation: Courtroom Lawyers Are Breaking Up With Big Law," a very interesting WSJ story on prominent biglaw litigation partners starting boutique firms. Gift link:
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Looking forward to discussing Legora over dinner this week with my MLS colleague Jeannie Paterson, Minter Ellison's Jack Stoneman and Legora's Heather Paterson
September 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Looking forward to discussing Legora over dinner this week with my MLS colleague Jeannie Paterson, Minter Ellison's Jack Stoneman and Legora's Heather Paterson
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I don’t think Ben realises how funny this quote is
September 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I don’t think Ben realises how funny this quote is
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Rapoport on Law Firm Responses to Targeting by Executive Order, buff.ly/2Pw8AmC -Nancy B. Rapoport (University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law) has posted Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders (Vol 13, Emory Corp. Gov. & Account. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.
Rapoport on Law Firm Responses to Targeting by Executive Order
Nancy B. Rapoport (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law) has posted Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders (Vol 13, Emory Corp. Gov. &…
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Rapoport on Law Firm Responses to Targeting by Executive Order, buff.ly/2Pw8AmC -Nancy B. Rapoport (University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law) has posted Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders (Vol 13, Emory Corp. Gov. & Account. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.