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2019 UQ Law Awards

30 May 2019 5:15pm–7:30pm

in 2019 UQ Law Awards

Join us as we celebrate our students and teaching staff achievements from 2018 and 2019.

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

Text Analytics in Legal Practice: Opportunities and Challenges

16 May 2019 6:00pm–7:00pm

in Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession Lecture Series

Recent developments in text analytics offer new tools for legal practice. Increasingly, these techniques will identify argument-related information in legal decisions raising the possibility of ever more effectively matching documents’ substantive concepts and argument roles with those required to solve users’ particular legal problems.

Text Analytics in Legal Practice: Opportunities and Challenges

How Computational Models of Legal Reasoning Can Help Legal Apps

16 May 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession Lecture Series

Due to popular demand, Professor Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, will present a second lecture at noon in the UQ Law boardroom. Professor Ashley has kindly agreed to present at St Lucia in addition to Queensland Supreme Court Library in the evening. We hope the additional time allows for more UQ academics to attend and learn from Professor Ashley, an expert on computer modelling of legal reasoning and cyberspace legal issues.

Meet the Profession networking event for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law students

15 May 2019 6:00pm–8:00pm

in Featured events

Join us during Law Week to hear from a panel of distinguished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law alumni, drawn from Griffith, Bond, QUT and UQ, to discuss: "Where are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in law and justice?"

Opening of first Federal Parliament, 1901

2019 Supreme Court of Queensland Oration—100 years after Federation, is it different?

13 May 2019 5:15pm

in Supreme Court Library events

2019 Supreme Court of Queensland Oration—100 years after Federation. Is it different? Presented by the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, Governor-Delegate of New South Wales

Free Speech on Campus in the United States and Australia

10 May 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm

in Research Seminar Series

Presented by Professor Kristine Bowman, Michigan State University.

Corporate Commitment to Human Rights in Australia

9 May 2019 5:00pm–6:45pm

in Current Legal Issues Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Sally Wheeler, Australian National University
Chair: The Honorable Justice Sue Brown, Supreme Court of Queensland
Commentator: Tim L’Estrange, Partner, Jones Day

Customary Land Tenure Reform: Adopting a Different Approach (Sri Lanka and Solomon Islands)

3 May 2019 2:00pm

in HDR Milestone Presentations

Presented by Anne Pickering, mid-candidature review presentation

Dealing with the unrepresented defendants in criminal matters - A comparative study between Australia and Bhutan

3 May 2019 1:00pm

in HDR Milestone Presentations

Presented by Karma Tshering, mid-candidature review presentation

May Coffee Conversations

1 May 2019 10:15am–11:30am

in Coffee Conversations Series

May Coffee Conversations with Andrea Perry Petersen—lawyer, clinical legal educator, legal tech adviser, social justice advocate and Churchill Fellow.

Naturalizing Dangerousness: Risk technologies and the realities they create

29 April 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Research Seminar Series

Presented by Dr Robert Werth, Rice University.

Naturalizing Dangerousness: Risk technologies and the realities they create

29 April 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm

in UQ Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series

Presented by Dr Robert Werth, Rice University.

A Path to Syrian Accountability led by Non-state Actors: The ‘System’ of International Criminal Law and the Case of CIJA

17 April 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm

in School events

This presentation/paper addresses the options for accountability for senior leaders of the Syrian government suspected of atrocity crimes.

Moral Machines: The Ethical Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars

16 April 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm

in UQ Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series

Presented by Dr Azim Shariff, University of British Columbia.

Women in Law 2019

11 April 2019 5:30pm–8:00pm

in Women in Law

Join us for an invigorating discussion about career development with a panel of successful women from the legal profession.

Indigenous people in legal education: reading group

9 April 2019 1:30pm

in School events

Reconceptualising the Law of the Dead by Expanding the Interests of the Living

8 April 2019 12:30pm–1:30pm

in Australian Centre for Private Law Events

Kate Falconer challenges the traditional formulation of the law of the dead by bringing the interests of the deceased to the forefront.

Religious Freedom after Ruddock

6 April 2019 9:00am–5:00pm

in Religious Freedom after Ruddock

Naida Huxton Lecture

2 April 2019 4:45pm–7:15pm

in School events

UQ Law Society will welcome The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG to present the annual Naida Haxton Lecture.

Justice Kirby presents: High Court of Australia and Beyond

2 April 2019 1:30pm–2:45pm

in School events

First-year law students are invited to attend a presentation from The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG, who will speak on the ‘High Court of Australia and Beyond’.

April Coffee Conversations

2 April 2019 10:15am–11:30am

in Coffee Conversations Series

April Coffee Conversations with Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Is QCAT (still) a court? Super-tribunals and Ch III of the Constitution

28 March 2019 5:30pm–6:30pm

in Current Constitutional Controversies - Occasional Colloquium Series

Since Burns, decisions in New South Wales and South Australia have found that their super-tribunals are not Ch III courts. In light of these developments, is QCAT still a court? And what does the fallout from Burns v Corbett mean for Queensland?

Accessory Fiduciary Liability

27 March 2019 12:00pm–2:00pm

in Australian Centre for Private Law Events

Not everyone understands that assistants engaged in serving particular beneficiaries for their employers are themselves accountable as fiduciaries directly to those beneficiaries. Professor Flannigan, University of Saskatchewan, discusses the basis for that conclusion.

March Coffee Conversations (#2)

27 March 2019 10:15am–11:30am

in Coffee Conversations Series

March Coffee Conversations (#2) with Patrick O’Brien, planning and environment lawyer at McCullough Robertson.

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