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A conversation with Alastair Blenkin, the founder of Hyra iQ, a tech startup and digital platform that automates high volume contract negotiation using artificial intelligence.

The practical steps to embarking on a political career.

Take every opportunity, find a mentor and be honest with yourself – this was the key advice shared at the annual University of Queensland Women in Law event.

Can the legal system help tackle its expert evidence problems by embracing the principles of the open science movement? Listen now.

Our team won the Best Overall Respondent Side during the championship rounds at the 2019 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC, USA.

Will text analytics render lower-level law jobs redundant as machines learn to search files and produce answers? How far away is digital legislation that can be executed by machines? Should lawyers learn how to code?

After years of uncertainty about the future of the family law system, the next government now has a clear roadmap for how to amend the law, and improve the system of justice, Academic Dean and Head of TC Beirne School of Law, Patrick Parkinson writes for The Conversation.

A new competition will give Law students the opportunity to transform the profession through technology, with a prize of $10,000.

International business lawyers must have a good understanding of the Chinese legal system, University of Queensland Academic Dean and Head of UQ School of Law Professor Patrick Parkinson has confirmed.

The High Court has decided, for the first time, the approach that should be taken to resolving native title compensation claims.

University of Queensland researchers working in criminal justice and domestic violence have influenced key legal reforms designed to better protect Australian women from domestic violence.

Researchers are launching a $9 million study which aims to embed ethics and the law into autonomous defence systems, such as self-driving military vehicles.

In a nation described by a World Bank report as “one of the most unequal”, a University of Queensland Law School expert has detailed the correlation between child sex abuse and poor socio-economic groups.

The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law will once again send a team to Washington DC to compete in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Why Filipino journalist Maria Ressa’s arrest should matter to all of us

The Hayne Royal Commission has been described as “one of the most consequential royal commissions ever conducted in Australia”. Dr Vicky Comino breaks down what the commissioner has promised - and explains why it might not be delivered.

Australia Day 2019 Honours have been conferred on four alumni and friends from the TC Beirne School of Law.

UQ Law students are taking their skills from the Queensland class room to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as they complete internships to expand their practical law experience.

Dr Justine Bell-James explains the recent NSW Land and Environment Court's landmark judgement, confirming a decision to refuse a new open-cut coal mine.

A team of University of Queensland staff and students have taken the next step in their project on trafficking in persons, following a presentation to a group of international experts at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria.