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:

Legal gavel and microscope

Scientists in the Courtroom - Reflections on Folbigg

28 May 2025 6:00pm–8:00pm
 
in Law Matters
In 2023, an Australian mother was released and acquitted after serving 20 years in prison, convicted by a jury of murdering her 4 young children over 10 years. Hear from 2 Danish scientists whose scientific research was central to her acquittal.

Decision-Making Capacity

22 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Age-Ed Seminar Series
Do you support an older person, or expect to in the future? Or, are you planning for your own future? Join us for the second event hosted by ‘Age-Ed’, an initiative designed to support informal carers for older persons and ageing researchers.

Corporate Accountability and Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Litigation in the English Courts

18 April 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Join Dr Ekaterina Aristova as she traces the legal developments and broader implications of emerging case law regarding Corporate Accountability and Global Supply Chains.
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Non-Pecuniary Loss as Loss of Wellbeing

9 April 2025 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Join Dr Andrew Fell as he discusses his working paper considering the implications of theories of wellbeing for the law’s conception of non-pecuniary loss.

Damages for Misuse of Private Information

27 March 2025 9:00am
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Join Dr Eleni Katsampouka, legal academic researching and teaching private law at Kings College London, as she presents her insights on Damages for Misuse of Private Information.
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From Monopoly to Lego: Building a more competitive economy from the ground up

19 March 2025 5:00pm–8:00pm
 
in Let's talk about corporations
The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Assistant Minister for Charities, Treasury and Competition, Assistant Minister for Employment discussing the recent policy focus on fostering competition across industries.
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Informal contracts: Too many techniques spoil the broth

13 March 2025 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Join Dr. Ryan Catterwell, barrister and expert in contract law, as he presents insights into the coherence of informal contract frameworks and their broader implications for contract law.

The Heart and Science of Aged Care: A Conversation

13 March 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Age-Ed Seminar Series
Join us for our first panel discussion, which aims to introduce the topic of informal aged care and generate insights, as well as practical advice, for current or future aged carers at UQ.

Evolution of the State - Indigenous Relationship in Canada: Lessons for Australia?

26 February 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in CPICL Seminars
Join us for a seminar titled 'Evolution of the State - Indigenous Relationship in Canada: Lessons for Australia?' presented by Professor Paul L A H Chartrand.

The Inaugural E-conference of the Australia-New Zealand chapter of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC)

13 February 2025 1:00pm–4:00pm
 
in CPICL Seminars
We are excited to announce that the inaugural e-conference of the Australia-New Zealand chapter of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) has been confirmed for 13 February 2025.
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WIPO Treaty on TKGR 2024: Constructing Guidelines for Disclosure and ABS

10 December 2024 6:00pm–7:00pm
 
in People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
Professor Suthersanen holds a Chair in Global Intellectual Property Law and was the Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute until 2024

Workshop on Model Codes for Marine and Coastal Restoration

18 November 2024 10:30am–5:00pm
 
in Workshop on Model Codes for Marine and Coastal Restoration
An interactive workshop focusing on the need to upscale ecological restoration.

Rethinking biodiversity-based economies for conservation and equity

12 November 2024 5:00pm
 
in People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
Rachel Wynberg and Sarah Laird presently co-direct a process of "rethinking" the relationship between conservation and equity, and the biodiversity-based economy, including access and benefit-sharing.

People-Plant Interrelationships and the Law – Ethnobiology and Biocultural Ethics

23 October 2024 9:00am
 
in People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
Recognizing the vital role that diversity has in our future on earth necessarily invites complexities into conversations about entanglements of “people, plants and the law.”
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The Grenfell Fire and the Building Safety Act 2022 sections 123 & 124 Procedural Opportunities and Challenges for Leaseholders

18 October 2024 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Join Professor Simone Degeling (UNSW) and Professor Jodi Gardner (University of Auckland) as they discuss the legal lessons to be learned from the 2017 Grenfell Fire tragedy.
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2024 Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture

17 October 2024 5:30pm–7:30pm
 
in Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture Series
Please join us for this special presentation by The Honourable Steven Rares KC at the 2024 Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture.
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Seminar 3: Class Actions – Equitable Fiduciary Supervision of Australian Class Actions

17 October 2024 5:15pm–7:00pm
 
in Current Legal Issues Seminars 2024
Statute provides for class actions in the Federal Court of Australia, and the Supreme Courts of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. In a class action, members of the represented class are not parties to the proceedings.

Current challenges in law and religion in Indonesia

17 October 2024 2:30pm–3:30pm
 
in CPICL Seminars
Join us for an insightful seminar with Associate Professor Nadirsyah Hosen, Associate Professor in Law at Melbourne University and a distinguished scholar and CPICL Fellow , as he explores these pressing issues and their broader implications for Indonesia’s future.

Lores of War: International humanitarian law from Indigenous Australian society - a Yolngu case study

11 October 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in CPICL Seminars
Join us for a seminar (being held in conjunction with the Australian Red Cross) presented by Dr Samuel White and Fauve Kurnadi.

A conversation with George Brandis KC

3 October 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in UQ Pro Bono Centre Events
Former politician George Brandis KC will speak about obligations that he believes legal professionals have to be of service to the community
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Intellectual Property Workshop – Registers and Data IP

2 October 2024 12:00pm–1:45pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Join Professor Robert Burrell (University of Oxford and Melbourne Law School) and Dr Wenting Cheng (UQ Law School) for a workshop covering trade mark law and data IP insights from a Chinese regulatory experiment.

Book Launch: Philosophy, Law and Culture of Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge by Suri Ratnapala

18 September 2024 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in CPICL Seminars
Join us for the official book launch 'Philosophy, Law and Culture of Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge' by Emeritus Profesor Suri Ratnapala.

Constitutional Identity and the Right to Attachment

13 September 2024 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in CPICL Seminars
Join us for a seminar presented by Professor Nick Barber, University of Oxford.
close up of hands tearing up a contract

Invalidity, Inefficacy, and Sanction in the Private Civil Law Tradition. On the loss of Contractual Effects due to the Inefficacy of Contracts.

29 August 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Rodrigo Alfredo Parra Salamanca from the University of Girona discusses the flattening use of the term ‘sanction’, and how to move away from the consequences of that classification.
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Two models of the person in law

15 August 2024 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
in Australian Centre for Private Law Events
Professor Eric Descheemaeker, University of Melbourne, explores 2 models of the concept of person-at-law, and the implications these have for corporations, animals, and elements of nature.

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