Events

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Current Legal Issues Seminars

Current Legal Issues is a high-profile series of seminars on contemporary legal issues. Each seminar has been accredited for CPD purposes by the Queensland Bar Association and Queensland Law Society.

Intangible Machines: A History of Patent Protection for Computer Programs

3 August 2018 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Intellectual Property Law and Food Security

Professor Brad Sherman on patent law and software.

Translating PVE/CVE Research into Evidence-Based Policy A Research-Policy-Practice Trilogue

2 August 2018 10:00am–5:00pm

in Translating PVE/CVE Research into Evidence-Based Policy A Research-Policy-Practice Trilogue

Incarceration and Inequality

1 August 2018 8:45am–10:30am

in Public lectures

Dr Andrew Leigh (MP) in conversation with Bruce Western, Vincent Schiraldi, Jessica Simes, Rebecca Wallis and Monica Bell.
Facilitated by Simon Bronitt.

“A Wholly Repugnant Spectacle”: A Panel Discussion with Richard Bourke

31 July 2018 2:00pm–3:00pm

in Richard Bourke

Join UQ law students for a Q&A session with Richard Bourke, an Australian lawyer fighting capital punishment in the United States.

Cocktail Function with Richard Bourke

30 July 2018 5:30pm

in Richard Bourke

Richard Bourke has worked on numerous trials and appeals opposing the death penalty in the United States.

Victims who kill: Improving section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (E and W)

20 July 2018 11:30am–1:00pm

in Research Seminar Series

Presented by Associate Professor Nicola Wake

Law School 3MT Competition 2018

20 July 2018 10:00am–11:00am

in UQ 3MT Competition

In the space of one stimulating and highly-entertaining hour you will hear from the Law School’s PhD students presenting their theses in a snappy and engaging three minute presentation.

Publishing A Book

16 July 2018 12:00pm–1:00pm

in CPICL Seminars

A lunchtime seminar addressed to HDR students and ECRs (though all are welcome!) about publishing processes. Presented by Ann-Christin Maak-Scherpe, General Manager and Publisher at Intersentia Cambridge.

Humanitarian Arguments in Debates about International Arms Control

13 July 2018 12:00pm–1:00pm

in UQ Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series

Associate Professor Rain Liivoja, TC Beirne School of Law, addresses humanitarian concerns which underpin much of contemporary arms control law.

UQ researchers, government representatives and delegations from Pacific islands at Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN) event.

Australia Pacific workshop on marine oil spills

11 July 2018 9:00am

in MASLU events

University of Queensland researchers, government representatives and delegations from six Pacific island states have met to discuss the implementation of the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN).

What Discrimination is Not

4 July 2018 12:00pm–1:30pm

in Public lectures

John Gardner FBA on the meaning of discrimination versus other terms, that are used as if they are synonyms for discrimination when they are not.

Private law's revolutionaries: authors, codifiers and merchants?

28 June 2018 5:15pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Presented by Professor Hector MacQueen, Edinburgh Law School

Lethal Autonomous Robots and the Plight of the Noncombatant

14 June 2018 12:00pm–1:00pm

in UQ Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series

Ronald C. Arkin, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, on the role of lethal autonomous robotic systems in warfare.

An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on the Legal, Social and Scientific Uses of the Kakadu Plum

1 June 2018 8:45am–5:00pm

in Intellectual Property Law and Food Security

Conscience and Human Depravity: An Examination of John Calvin's Natural Law Theory

31 May 2018 6:00pm

in Australian Legal Philosophy Students' Association (ALPSA)

AI and Legal Education: A Conversation with Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses

24 May 2018 12:00pm–1:00pm

in UQ Law AI Q&A Sessions

Immigration, Torture Claimants and Right to Family Life

21 May 2018 1:00pm–2:00pm

in Public lectures

Presenter: Hon Mr Justice Andrew Cheung, Chief Judge of the High Court, Hong Kong

The Gestalt of Autonomous Systems

18 May 2018 3:00pm–4:30pm

in Research Seminar Series

Presented by Professor Thomas Burri

Seminar 2: Fiduciary Law - "Prospective Fiduciary Duties"

17 May 2018 5:15pm–6:45pm

in Current Legal Issues Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Lionel Smith, McGill University Canada
Chair: Dominic O’Sullivan QC
Commentator: The Hon. Justice Derrington, Federal Court of Australia

Life at the Bar

16 May 2018 5:00pm–6:00pm

in BEL SET student events

Panel Event: What you need to know about going to the Bar

Proposed Changes to the Biodiscovery Act 2004 Workshop

15 May 2018 3:30pm–5:30pm

in Intellectual Property Law and Food Security

Insight into Australia and Timor-Leste maritime border agreement

10 May 2018 12:00am

in MASLU events

More than 50 legal practitioners and University of Queensland law students gathered at the Supreme Court of Queensland on Tuesday 1 May to discuss the historic maritime treaty between Australia and Timor-Leste.

Geographical Indications, Food Heritage and Latin American Rural Development: The Political Dynamism of Doubled Commodities

4 May 2018 3:00pm–4:30pm

in Research Seminar Series

Presented by Professor Rosemary Coombes

Guns and judges - Antonin Scalia and the right to bear arms

3 May 2018 5:15pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Presented by the Hon Justice Glenn Martin AM, for the Supreme Court Library of Queensland

Australia-Timor Leste Maritime Boundary - Developments and Issues

1 May 2018 5:30pm

in MASLU events

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