The UQ Law Research Seminar Series provides an opportunity to explore and critically discuss legal and interdisciplinary issues in an academic environment. The seminars are an integral part of the School’s research culture.

For further enquiries about this Seminar Series or if you are interested in presenting a seminar, please contact the Research Office (research@law.uq.edu.au).

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Virtual Hearings and Due Process

4 December 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Lucy Martinez, via Zoom.
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Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law

20 November 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Dr Eve Massingham, via Zoom.

Solitary Confinement in Queensland

30 October 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Tamara Walsh | Via Zoom

Tortious Misfeasance in Public Office – Raw Statistics from the Front Line

9 October 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Professor Kit Barker and Katelyn Lamont | Via Zoom

Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Law of Armed Conflict: Compatibility with International Humanitarian Law

11 September 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
This seminar will briefly outline the defining technical characteristics of autonomous weapon systems and the aspects of machine autonomy which underlie legal concerns.
Presented by Dr Tim McFarland (Research Fellow, UQ Law School, Law and the Future of War Research Group).

The Cognition of Contract Interpretation

21 August 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Hypothetical and real case examples to explain what judges and lawyers are doing when construing a contract.
Presented by Dr Ryan Catterwell, he will demonstrate that an interpretive dispute is resolved by ascertaining what was objectively intended by the choice of words in the contract.

Regulating Artificial Intelligence in the European Union: Legal and Ethical Aspects

17 April 2020 9:00am3 May 2020 11:45pm
Recorded seminar presented by Dr Jan De Bruyne, Ghent University
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Right Wing Populism and the Constitution

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20 March 2020 3:00pm4:15pm
Presented by Prof Keith Ewing, King's College, London, UK
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Enforcement Mechanisms for Norms Governing the Use of Public Powers

14 February 2020 3:00pm4:15pm
Presented by Professor Lionel Smith, McGill University, Canada

The living legacies of Spanish colonial property rights: natural resources and the law of the prior sovereign in the United States

11 October 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Professor Michael Brescia, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
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Competition law models fit for transplantation? The US, EU, and China

16 August 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Professor Mark Furse (University of Glasgow) and Doctor Wendy Ng (University of Melbourne)
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Free Speech on Campus in the United States and Australia

10 May 2019 1:00pm2:30pm
Presented by Professor Kristine Bowman, Michigan State University.
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Naturalizing Dangerousness: Risk technologies and the realities they create

29 April 2019 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Dr Robert Werth, Rice University.
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European Union Measures Concerning Drug Trafficking, Addiction and International Cooperation

22 March 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Dr Monika Stempkowski, University of Vienna.
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Intellectual Property Laws: Are We Ready For Dancing Robots?

1 March 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Dr Mathilde Pavis, the University of Exeter.
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Public Inquiries, Policy Learning and the Threat of Future Failure

26 October 2018 3:00pm4:30pm
Presenter: Dr Alastair Stark, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland
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Constitutional Unamendability and Comparative Method

10 August 2018 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Professor Adrienne Stone
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Victims who kill: Improving section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (E and W)

20 July 2018 11:30am1:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Nicola Wake
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The Gestalt of Autonomous Systems

18 May 2018 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Professor Thomas Burri
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Experiences of the Referendum Council and Constitutional Reform

20 April 2018 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Professor Megan Davis
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It’s all about the money: a transsystemic mapping of free trade law

2 March 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Professor Csongor István Nagy
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Perspectives on Legal Research: The Case of 'Preventive Justice'

3 November 2017 3:00pm4:00pm
Presenter: Professor Andrew Ashworth

Aligning Transnational Public Policy with State Sovereignty

20 October 2017 3:00pm4:00pm
Presenter: Professor Leon Trakman
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Reflections on the Miller Case

1 September 2017 3:00pm4:00pm
Presenter: Associate Professor Nick Barber, Fellow of Trinity College at Oxford University
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Can Norms Die? Violation and International Law

19 May 2017 3:00pm4:00pm
Presenter: Associate Professor Sarah Percy
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The Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in The Walking Dead, World War Z and The Rising

17 March 2017 3:00pm4:00pm
Some critics have argued that the recent popular proliferation of zombie narratives suggests a collective failure of imagination: that what the trope of the zombie signifies is the very impossibility of thinking outside of the prevailing logics of consumption—or Capital.

Quistclose trusts

17 April 2015 12:00pm1:00pm

On rules and rulings

10 April 2015 12:00pm1:00pm