Law School

Law School Events

Find events for practitioners, academics and students, hosted in collaboration with organisations outside the UQ School of Law.

Our prestigious events series include:

Coffee Conversations Series

30 August 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Coffee Conversations Series
Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession Lecture Series

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: What Lawyers Really Need to Know About Technology

29 August 2019 6:00pm–7:00pm
 
in Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession Lecture Series
The automation of various aspects of legal services delivery, from discovery and due diligence to predictive analytics, have raised questions for university and continuing legal education. To work effectively alongside technology, lawyers will need to understand it, not by learning to code, but by grasping the underlying logics.
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Rethinking Public Entities & Revenue Generation: A New Interdisciplinary Regulatory Model

28 August 2019 8:00am–9:00am
 
in HDR Milestone Presentations
Presenter: Emirenciana (Tyas) Nyantyasningsih, PhD Candidate, TC Beirne School of Law.
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Criminal Law

22 August 2019 5:00pm–6:45pm
 
in Current Legal Issues Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor David Hamer, University of Sydney
Chair: The Honorable Justice Soraya Ryan, Supreme Court of Queensland
Commentator: Benedict Power, Barrister- at-Law
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Next Witness by Julie Fragar panel discussion

20 August 2019 1:00pm–1:45pm
 
in Public lectures
Have you visited the Next Witness by Julie Fragar art exhibition yet? Join us in the library as the artist and a panel of experts discuss the paintings and explore the intersection of law and art.
Coffee

Coffee Conversations with Shaun Restorick-Barton

20 August 2019 10:15am–11:30am
 
in Coffee Conversations Series
August Coffee Conversations with Shaun Restorick-Barton, Law Squared.
Research Seminar Series

Competition law models fit for transplantation? The US, EU, and China

16 August 2019 3:00pm–4:30pm
 
in Research Seminar Series
Presented by Professor Mark Furse (University of Glasgow) and Doctor Wendy Ng (University of Melbourne)
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Geneva Conventions are turning 70

12 August 2019 6:00pm–7:30pm
 
in School events
In Brisbane, Australian Red Cross is hosting a free seminar to explore why the Geneva Conventions are more relevant than ever. The seminar will bring together four panellists with direct experience.
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New Lawyering for A2J

7 August 2019 9:00am–12:30pm
 
in UQ Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series
A workshop mapping the future of social justice lawyering.
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Self-determination and the Implications of the Chagos Advisory Opinion

6 August 2019 4:30pm
 
in MASLU events
This MASLU/CPICL/ILA (QLD brand) presentation assesses the resonance of the sources used, and the more radical contentions advanced, during the Chagos Case – for the exercise of the right to self-determination in the colonial context and for international law more generally.
Coffee

Coffee Conversations with Jodi Palmer

6 August 2019 10:15am–11:30am
 
in Coffee Conversations Series
August Coffee Conversations with Jodi Palmer, General Counsel at Volvo Group and UQ alumnus.

Reading group

2 August 2019 1:30pm–2:30pm
 
in Indigenous Peoples and the Law

Indigenous people in legal education: reading group 2

2 August 2019 1:30pm
 
in School events
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Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education: Time for Top-down Reform

2 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in School events
Presented by Dr Simon Young - Professor of Law and Justice (USQ), Adjunct Professor (UWA), External Fellow (UQ Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law).

The Off-taste of Trademark: Packaging, shelf-life, and food science in the early US peanut industry

25 July 2019 3:00pm–3:30pm
 
in HDR Milestone Presentations
Presenter: Tad Brown, PhD Candidate, TC Beirne School of Law

Priority, Authority, Property and the Kakadu Plum

25 July 2019 2:30pm–3:00pm
 
in HDR Milestone Presentations
Presenter: Jocelyn Bosse, PhD Candidate, TC Beirne School of Law

Debunking the 'Market Substitution Assumption' in Queensland

23 July 2019 5:30pm–7:30pm
 
in School events
The 'market substitution assumption' has been widely used in Queensland Courts and by policy-makers more generally as a rationale for permitting coal mines to proceed. This seminar will analyse how this argument has been used in Queensland. Presented by Sean Ryan, Principal Solicitor, Environmental Defenders Office Qld.
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The Resilience of Contract Law in Light of Technological Change

18 July 2019 6:00pm–7:00pm
 
in Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession Lecture Series
While the Internet hardly creates academic excitement anymore, a number of internet-related technologies seems to challenge the principles of contract law and may, finally, test their ability to withstand technological change.
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Postgraduate meet and greet session

15 July 2019 5:00pm–6:30pm
 
in School events
New postgraduate law students are invited to join fellow students and academic staff at an orientation evening.
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Postgraduate international advising session

15 July 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
in School events
This is a compulsory session for international postgraduate law students commencing in Semester 2, 2019.
Scene from the Tichborn criminal trial (Regina v. Castro), which took place in 1873–74 at the Court of Queen's Bench, London. The Claimant (probably named Arthur Orton) is the bearded man in the lower centre of the picture, facing left; he is sitting in front of his lawyer, Edward Kenealy, who is leaning against the desk.

Young Lawyers Queensland present: Ethical Conundrums

12 July 2019 8:30am–10:15am
 
in School events
Drawing on a number of short videos dealing with classic ethical conundrums facing criminal lawyers, lawyers in this session will discuss how best to respond.

Overturning terra nullius - NAIDOC Week 2019

7 July 2019 8:30am–14 July 2019 4:30pm
 
in Supreme Court Library events
To celebrate NAIDOC Week (7–14 July 2019), Supreme Court Library Queensland (SCLQ) is running exclusive guided tours of their exhibition—Overturning terra nullius: the story of native title.
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UQSIP MASLU Twilight Panel Session

27 June 2019 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in UQSIP Seminar Series
In February this year, MV Solomon Trader ran aground on a reef in Lughu Bay, Solomon Islands, spilling over a hundred tonnes of oil into the waters off the coast of Rennell Island. A massive clean-up operation is still underway. The disaster raises numerous questions which will be explored by the panel members in three quite different contexts.
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UQSIP MASLU Twilight Panel Session

27 June 2019 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in MASLU events
In February this year, MV Solomon Trader ran aground on a reef in Lughu Bay, Solomon Islands, spilling over a hundred tonnes of oil into the waters off the coast of Rennell Island. The disaster raises numerous questions which will be explored by three expert panel members.
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Research impact in law and policy: challenges, choices and lessons learned from the UK experience

27 June 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in School events
Presented by Lawrence McNamara, Reader at the University of York and Senior Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.

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