Continuing Professional Development events

Events which are eligible for CPD points are listed here. These events are usually held in Brisbane city and are organised by UQ Law or the Supreme Court Library, or are a collaboration between UQ, the Library, QUT, and the Bar Association of Queensland.

Upcoming events
Past events

The Prospects for Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement

17 October 2019 5:00pm–6:45pm

in Current Legal Issues Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Chester Brown, University of Sydney
Chair: The Honorable Justice James Douglas, Supreme Court of Queensland
Commentator: Professor Anthony Cassimatis, UQ Law School

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

Unjust Enrichment and Equity

13 June 2019 5:00pm–6:45pm

in Current Legal Issues Seminar Series

Speaker: The Honorable Justice Julie Ward, Chief Judge in Equity, Supreme Court of New South Wales
Chair: The Honorable Justice Catherine Holmes, Chief Justice of Queensland
Commentator: Professor Kit Barker, UQ Law School

Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation

23 May 2019 5:15pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Selden Society 2019 lecture series—lecture one, the third annual Lord Atkin lecture—Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation
Presented by Professor Paul Brand

Law and politics in McCawley’s case

22 November 2018 5:15pm–7:30pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Presented by Professor Nicholas Aroney.

Barwick—his place in the legal pantheon

25 October 2018 5:15pm–6:30pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Presented by the Hon John Dowsett AM, President of the National Native Title Tribunal

The Irish convict doctor who delivered Dick Atkin—Dr O’Doherty

30 August 2018 5:15pm–7:00pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Presented by the Hon Justice Patrick Keane AC

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

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

Justices of the High Court of Australia—Justice Mary Gaudron, presented by the Hon Justice Roslyn Atkinson AO

24 August 2017 5:15pm–7:00pm

in Selden Society Lectures

Justice Atkinson will discuss the life and career of Justice Mary Gaudron—Australia’s first woman appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia, serving as one of its most influential members for 16 years.

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