Most Innovative Idea Competition
WHEN
8 September 2025
Monday
9.00am Australia/Sydney
14 September 2025
Sunday
11.59pm Australia/Sydney
WHERE
Online
COST
Free admission
Here's how you can share your ideas about social justice and technology and win!
UTS Faculty of Law wants you to think big, share your ideas, and show how technology can build a more socially just world by attending events, sharing your idea on social media, and meeting others who are interested in the social justice implications of technology. We’re looking for a brilliant idea from you about how to use GenAI to make the world a more socially just place. Give us an idea and you'll go in the running to win the Tech and IP Research Cluster Most Innovative Idea Award. You'll receive fame, glory and a $100 visa gift card!
One of the most significant disruptions in recent years has been the rise of Generative AI. By producing outputs once uniquely human (coherent text, recognisable images, and musical compositions), its emergence raises important challenges and questions. How will it impact knowledge workers such as lawyers? What effects will it have on creative industries and copyright law? And will it deepen the existing digital divide?
AI also offers significant opportunities to improve society. For example, Stanford’s Legal Design Lab has identified numerous ways Generative AI can enhance access to justice through projects like AI and Access to Justice. AI is already helping people clearly explain their legal problems so they can get assistance when they need it, as demonstrated by initiatives such as Justice Connect’s AI legal help ecosystem. Beyond this, AI can improve public legal literacy by translating complex legal language into information that more people in the community can understand, a potential explored in the Victoria Law Reform Commission’s consultation paper on AI in courts and tribunals.
While we do need to remain cautious of AI’s limitations, including potential inaccurate output and the risk of reinforcing biases embedded in its underlying data, it holds great promise as a tool for social justice.
This September, the Faculty of Law has organised a range of inspirational events for Law Tech + Social Justice Week, designed to inspire your thinking about the future of technology and social justice.
We want you to showcase those thoughts in this unique competition by sharing your idea for a way that generative AI can make the world more socially just in 20 words or less on social media.
How to Enter
- Attend events during Tech + Social Justice Week
- Craft your big idea about how Generative AI can promote social justice, in 20 words or fewer.
- Share your idea on LinkedIn or Instagram with the hashtag #utslawbigideascomp
Or
- Email your idea to us at lawbigideascomp@uts.edu.au, and we will share it on LinkedIn on your behalf, with your name credited.