Law Innovation And Technologies- Jurassic Park Research Assignment

You are required to provide aresearch assignment that features footnoted citations and a bibliography.

The assignment should identify law that is relevant to what happens in one of four fictional worlds and critique the operation of the law in those worlds.
A discussion of Jurassic Park, for example, might analyse the existence and adequacy for law regarding such matters as
Intellectual property patenting of extinct life forms and protection of new inventions for identification and management of such life forms
Research Ethics Australian law restricts genetic modification and more broadly seeks not to place humans at risk of serious harm
Industrial Espionage illicit acquisition, sale or gifting of corporate information
Employment law a duty to employees and to employers
Trade Marks numerous trade marks, not just with a T Rex image
Investment innovation is often a matter of access to risk capital
Tort law many things go wrong, many people are injured or killed, much scope for litigation and damages awards
Jurisdiction could you set up your own dinosaur park in Australia and whose law applies? Is licencing relevant?
Gender issues and law regarding discrimination and harassment
Regulation could and should law have better shaped the innovations (technologies and practices) we see in the Jurassic Worlds. Where are the regulators? Was self-regulation or co-regulation effective?

The Fictional Worlds
Choose one of five fictional worlds, depicted in
the Jurassic Park novels of Michael Crichton and the movies (1993- 2018) associated with those novels, concerned with misadventures regarding genetic research and reptiles that are less scary than their corporate parents
the Westworld television series (2017-18) based on an idea by Michael Crichton that features artificial intelligence, harm, trade secrets, patents, liability and investment
Ex Machina (2014), the artificial intelligence film directed by Alex Garland, encompassing questions about disruptive hardware and software development alongside issues with commercialisation, secrets, research ethics and legal identity
Arrival (2016), the film directed by Denis Villeneuve that engages with questions about discrimination, information sharing, encryption, commercialisation and ethics
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) misuse of trade secrets, regulation of a disruptive technology, intellectual property, animal rights, liability for damage when things start to go wrong. Note: do not use the 1968 to 1973 Apes films or the1974-1975 television series.

Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes are
After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Apply and analyse legal processes to understand law reform and regulation in the context of technology and society;
2. Create and evaluate legal arguments demonstrating the operation of existing legal frameworks, and arguing for reform using legal communication skills; and
3. Create and evaluate arguments about the impact of technologies on society and law's role in moderating or mediating technological
disruption.