A/Prof Narrelle Morris
@narrellemorris.bsky.social
Curtin Law School. Legal history, statutory interpretation, research and writing. Japan. Permanently at risk of being squashed by books in my office.
Back from long service leave and upon my desk the glory of the print version of my new article "Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges have Guidelines Too?" anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ie5...
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Back from long service leave and upon my desk the glory of the print version of my new article "Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges have Guidelines Too?" anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ie5...
Just in case you don't believe me ...
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Just in case you don't believe me ...
You’re kidding us, right? Reporting on AI and not aware UNTIL
NOW about Gen AI “hallucinations”? Is this what happens when you only read press releases from the AI boosters and don’t stop to think about any of their claims?
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
NOW about Gen AI “hallucinations”? Is this what happens when you only read press releases from the AI boosters and don’t stop to think about any of their claims?
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
You’re kidding us, right? Reporting on AI and not aware UNTIL
NOW about Gen AI “hallucinations”? Is this what happens when you only read press releases from the AI boosters and don’t stop to think about any of their claims?
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
NOW about Gen AI “hallucinations”? Is this what happens when you only read press releases from the AI boosters and don’t stop to think about any of their claims?
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
My article “Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges Have Guidelines Too?” is now out in the Journal of Judicial Administration!
Short answer: yes.
Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.
Short answer: yes.
Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.
September 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My article “Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges Have Guidelines Too?” is now out in the Journal of Judicial Administration!
Short answer: yes.
Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.
Short answer: yes.
Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.
The enormous State Library of QLD billboard that actually says very little.
September 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The enormous State Library of QLD billboard that actually says very little.
If you’re in Brisbane or coming to Brisbane in the next few weeks, Afterglow in the City Botanic Gardens as a part of the Festival is great.
September 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you’re in Brisbane or coming to Brisbane in the next few weeks, Afterglow in the City Botanic Gardens as a part of the Festival is great.
Two entirely different issues several generations apart, both requiring a warning.
September 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Two entirely different issues several generations apart, both requiring a warning.
And the rooftop cat for added cuteness.
September 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
And the rooftop cat for added cuteness.
On the nostalgia walk of Brisbane this week. This is “The Mansions” where Sir William Flood Webb, Prez of the IMTFE, lived as a young man. Boarded up at present while yet another pair of skyscrapers is built. Hope renovation is on the horizon.
September 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
On the nostalgia walk of Brisbane this week. This is “The Mansions” where Sir William Flood Webb, Prez of the IMTFE, lived as a young man. Boarded up at present while yet another pair of skyscrapers is built. Hope renovation is on the horizon.
given academic job losses, falling numbers of PhD students, “Job Ready” funding forcing students away from history and an underfunded ARC that means almost no research funding goes to historians? Also you HAVE the Brereton report on your library shelf (coincidentally taken this very afternoon!)
September 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
given academic job losses, falling numbers of PhD students, “Job Ready” funding forcing students away from history and an underfunded ARC that means almost no research funding goes to historians? Also you HAVE the Brereton report on your library shelf (coincidentally taken this very afternoon!)
I give you the “Sabbatical Spritz” at Brunetti’s, Flinders Lane, Melbourne. It seemed most appropriate.
August 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I give you the “Sabbatical Spritz” at Brunetti’s, Flinders Lane, Melbourne. It seemed most appropriate.
More today. I just don’t get this. A summary “letting you quickly grasp what an article is about before diving in” is an … abstract. Written by the author, the guaranteed expert on what it’s about.
August 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
More today. I just don’t get this. A summary “letting you quickly grasp what an article is about before diving in” is an … abstract. Written by the author, the guaranteed expert on what it’s about.
Check out entirely misleading image caption in this article. Gen AI doesn’t make it “easier to learn” at all. It deprives students from learning knowledge and skills themselves, from critical thinking to writing.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
August 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Check out entirely misleading image caption in this article. Gen AI doesn’t make it “easier to learn” at all. It deprives students from learning knowledge and skills themselves, from critical thinking to writing.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Delighted to watch Edelman J of the High Court give the annual lecture tonight @ Murdoch University. However, I reckon 60 mins of watching him give carefully nuanced answers to random questions posed by the audience would be equally as interesting! So much food for thought during and afterwards.
August 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Delighted to watch Edelman J of the High Court give the annual lecture tonight @ Murdoch University. However, I reckon 60 mins of watching him give carefully nuanced answers to random questions posed by the audience would be equally as interesting! So much food for thought during and afterwards.
It’s the furniture equivalent of the canister with attitude
August 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It’s the furniture equivalent of the canister with attitude
Congratulations to Justice Michael Lee on being appointed to the High Court of Australia by The West Australian 🤦🏻♀️
August 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Congratulations to Justice Michael Lee on being appointed to the High Court of Australia by The West Australian 🤦🏻♀️
In today’s “Future Campus” on new appts to ANU Council. I get the point about Ministerial picks but this is really downselling, if not actually an insult to, former Chief Justice Martin of Western Australia who was also on the various advisory boards for the WA based law schools.
August 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
In today’s “Future Campus” on new appts to ANU Council. I get the point about Ministerial picks but this is really downselling, if not actually an insult to, former Chief Justice Martin of Western Australia who was also on the various advisory boards for the WA based law schools.
No, Hein, my research is not going to get easier and I definitely do not want to “imagine” anything with your database polluted by AI Summaries which might tell me the legal factoid equivalent of gluing cheese on pizza or eating rocks. #legalresearch #yeetAIintothesun
August 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
No, Hein, my research is not going to get easier and I definitely do not want to “imagine” anything with your database polluted by AI Summaries which might tell me the legal factoid equivalent of gluing cheese on pizza or eating rocks. #legalresearch #yeetAIintothesun
And here’s the rest of the list for the curious
July 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
And here’s the rest of the list for the curious
Australian law peeps, I give you the top 20 list of law journals according to Google Scholar (at least as many as I can fit into a screenshot). All but one are US based … no, wait a minute so is the German Law Journal. All of them are US journals.
July 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Australian law peeps, I give you the top 20 list of law journals according to Google Scholar (at least as many as I can fit into a screenshot). All but one are US based … no, wait a minute so is the German Law Journal. All of them are US journals.
When a sequence of rainy days coincides with long service leave and a new baby due at work.
July 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
When a sequence of rainy days coincides with long service leave and a new baby due at work.
Good to see it’s not only @curtinuniversity.bsky.social that does campus weird objects.
July 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Good to see it’s not only @curtinuniversity.bsky.social that does campus weird objects.
The glorious glow of wattle @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The glorious glow of wattle @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
Note the implicit bias built into dot point 3, not to mention the clearly larger font emphasising it. Or maybe they’re just bad at formatting unsolicited surveys for Elsevier? Short answer: nothing.
June 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Note the implicit bias built into dot point 3, not to mention the clearly larger font emphasising it. Or maybe they’re just bad at formatting unsolicited surveys for Elsevier? Short answer: nothing.