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:

Current challenges in law and religion in Indonesia

17 October 2024 2:30pm3:30pm
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 12:00pm1:00pm
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 12:00pm1:00pm
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 12:00pm1:45pm
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 4:00pm6:00pm
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 11:00am12:00pm
Join us for a seminar presented by Professor Nick Barber, University of Oxford.
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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 12:00pm1:00pm
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 1:00pm2:00pm
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.

Women in Law 2024

8 August 2024 5:30pm7:30pm
Join us for an invigorating panel discussion from inspiring women within the legal profession.
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Re-engineering the Concept of Damage

31 July 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
What should “damage” mean in tort law? Tony Zhou examines two different goals recently articulated in some pockets of the jurisprudential literature.
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Equity: Filling Much-Needed Gaps?

25 July 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
Justices of the UK Supreme Court have given renewed prominence to the role of Equity to 'put right injustice to which the law is otherwise blind'. Professor Ben McFarlane discusses the benefits and dangers of these views.
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Using Translators and Interpreters in the Law

18 July 2024 9:00am1:30pm
The UQ Pro Bono Centre is hosting a workshop on using interpreters with the generous assistance of NAATI (the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters), AUSIT (the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators Inc.), ASLIA, the Australian Sign Language Interpreters and Translators’ Association and the UQ School of Languages and Culture.
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Rights of Action in Private Law: Paradigms, Exceptions and Justifications?

10 July 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
UQ's Professor Kit Barker begins exploring the configuration of rights of action in private law by clarifying this paradigm, identifying exceptions and examining the normative relationship between primary rights and rights of action.
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Queensland Property Law Reforms – the New Property Law Act

29 May 2024 11:00am12:30pm
The Property Law Act 2023 (Qld) received royal assent on 2 November 2023 and commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
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AI and the Rule of Law

14 May 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
The seminar will discuss Dr Paul Burgess’s recent book, AI and the Rule of Law: The Necessary Evolution of a Concept. The book is a timely intervention in the emerging debate about the challenges that use of AI presents to the rule of law.

Panel | Every day is pro bono day

14 May 2024 12:00pm1:30pm
To celebrate Law Week and National Pro Bono Day, the UQ Pro Bono Centre is hosting a lunchtime session on Tuesday 14 May with special guests from the profession. 

Vocal Toolkit Workshop

2 May 2024 6:00pm7:30pm
Join Rosalind Williams, our Practitioner-in-Residence, for this practical session on the voice, and how to use your voice in advocacy. The session will take place on Thursday 2 May, 6-7:30pm in the Law School Boardroom.
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Circumscribing lawful act duress in Australia: Edelman's disproportionality, Hodge’s unconscionability and Burrows’ bad faith working paper

17 April 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
The High Court of Australia is yet to recognise a doctrine of lawful act duress, but this development seems likely to be only a matter of time.
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Uncommon and Unordinary Nuisance: The Implications of the Fearn Decision for Australian Law

3 April 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
The judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Fearn v Board of Trustees of The Tate Gallery is significant for at least two reasons.

Student Pro Bono and Pizza | UQPBC info session

5 March 2024 5:30pm
Want to find out more about student pro bono and what it looks like for a law student? Come along to the UQ Pro Bono Centre’s panel information session in Week 3! 

Welcome Back Gelato

29 February 2024 4:00pm6:00pm
Catch up with your fellow law students and meet some of your lecturers and support staff.
Bachelor of Laws Court Tour

Bachelor of Laws Court Tour

16 February 2024 8:30am4:00pm
Join your fellow first-years for an exclusive UQ introductory welcome experience to the legal profession, beginning from the Supreme Court of Queensland.

Retroactive Constitutional Amendment

14 February 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Join us for a seminar presented by Dr Dwight Newman KC.

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