Law School HDR Research Excellence Awards
These awards celebrate outstanding work by UQ Law Research Higher Degree students in their fields. They recognise publications of high quality, grants for novel research methods and Faculty-wide recognition of excellence.
2023
Renato Costa - John Finnis and the Central Case Constitution, Journal of Legal Philosophy,
and Sarah Kendall - The Erosion of Academic Freedom: How Australian Espionage Law Impacts Higher Education and Research. Sydney Law Review 44 (4) 503-535.
2022
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria
2021
Rebecca Barber, ‘An Exploration of the General Assembly’s Troubled Relationship with Unilateral Sanctions’, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 70(2) 343-378.
DOI: 10.1017/S0020589321000026
2020
Constance Lee, The spark that still shines: John Calvin on conscience and natural law. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 8 (3) 615-640.
DOI: 10.1093/ojlr/rwz023
2023
Rose Foster – PhD project – 'Legal challenges and opportunities for effective marine restoration in the Anthropocene'.
2022
David O’Brien – PhD project – 'The Law of Blind Trusts in Australia'.
2021
Renato Saeger Magalhães Costa – PhD Project – ‘The Elements of Constitutionalism and the Pseudo-Constitution: Beyond the Ontological Classification of Constitutions’.
2020
Karma Tshering - PhD project – ‘Dealing with the unrepresented defendants in criminal matters - A comparative study between Australia and Bhutan’.
2018
Anne Pickering – PhD project – ‘A framework for property law reform and development within legal pluralism: Adopting an innovative approach’.
2017
Joseph Lelliott, Smuggled and trafficked unaccompanied minors: towards a coherent, protection-based approach in international law. International Journal of Refugee Law 29 (2) 238-269. DOI: 10.1093/ijrl/eex024
2016
Peta Stephenson, ‘Justice Mason in the Australian Assistance Plan Case (1975): Nationhood, Federalism and Commonwealth Executive Power’ in Andrew Lynch (ed), Great Australian Dissents, CUP, 169-188. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316665824.010
and Garth Wooler, The new 'asplenium clause' unconscionability unwound?. Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 169-182.
2015
Laura Guttuso, Leniency and the two faces of Janus: where public and private enforcement merge and converge, in Anti-cartel enforcement in a contemporary age: the leniency religion. Edited by Caron Beaton-Wells and Christopher Tran. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.273-298.
2014
Kellie Robson, The state of personal liberty in Australia after M47: a risk theory analysis of security rights. Monash University Law Review 39 (2) 506-538.
2013
Betheli O’Carroll, ‘The role of victims in criminal procedure in light of the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power- Germany and Australia’
presented at the 20th Annual ANZIL Conference, New Zealand, in July 2012.
2012
Rachel Lee, 'Trends in personal insolvency in Australia' published in (2012) 20 Insolvency Law Journal 18-54. (co-authored with Associate Professor David Morrison)
2011
Alison Christou, “Issues of mandate and practice for non-adversarial adjudication”, Journal of Judicial Administration [2011] 20 JJA at 178.
2010
Alison Christou, “ The ‘Good’ Tribunal Member – An Aretaic Approach to Administrative Tribunal Practice”, (2009) 28 (2) University of Queensland Law Journal 339-352.
2022
Rebecca Barber
2017
Joseph Lelliott
2015
Betheli O’Carroll