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  • The 'I' behind AI

    Published on: 23 August 2018
    Since meeting while studying at UQ's TC Beirne School of Law, Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry and Samuel Irvine Casey have gone from strength to strength in what can only be described as a cutthroat professional environment.

  • Outstanding law alumni honoured

    Published on: 20 August 2018
    A UQ law graduate has been recognised with a 2018 UQ Alumni Award.
  • Winning team

    UQ law students win Indigenous mooting contest

    Published on: 17 August 2018
    Teamwork, advocacy and sharp legal minds have guided three University of Queensland law students to victory at the fourth annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students’ Moot at the Federal Court of Australia in Brisbane.

  • Defending death-row inmates: insights from Richard Bourke

    Published on: 16 August 2018
    A leading advocate for ending capital punishment in the United States has shared his insights on what it’s like to represent defendants on death row with University of Queensland law students and staff.

  • Embedding regulators in banks can help change cultures of wrongdoing, despite the risks

    Published on: 8 August 2018
    The federal government’s adoption of ASIC chair James Shipton’s proposal to embed ASIC supervisors in the banks is an important initiative. The Global Financial Crisis and the procession of corporate and financial scandals since then have led to what Shipton calls a “trust deficit”.

  • What is the future of prison sentences in Australia?

    Published on: 3 August 2018
    Racial inequality, poverty and incarceration rates in the United States and Australia were the focus of a workshop led by a renowned Harvard University sociologist at The University of Queensland this week.

  • UQ students launch national deaths in custody database

    Published on: 2 August 2018
    A team of law students and staff at The University of Queensland has developed Australia’s first comprehensive deaths in custody website.

  • New edition of domestic and family violence book released

    Published on: 1 August 2018
    Australian judges and legal professionals now have access to a new version of the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book – an online resource to improve judicial understanding of family violence.

  • UQ law students meet Australian Ambassador to Austria

    Published on: 24 July 2018
    Seventeen University of Queensland law students participating in the University of Vienna Summer School have met with Dr Brendon Hammer, Australia’s Ambassador to Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.  
  • Eloise Gluer

    And the winners are: Law graduates scoop UQ medals

    Published on: 20 July 2018
    Four 2017 Honours graduates from The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law have been named University medallists.

  • ‘Crimmigration’ workshop first of its kind in Australia

    Published on: 17 July 2018
    The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law will host a group of leading Australian academics on July 19 for a workshop on ‘crimmigration’ in Australia.
  • Biodiversity, genetic resources and intellectual property book cover

    Cracking the code: new book to help govern use of genetic resources

    Published on: 13 July 2018
    A Research Fellow at UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law has co-edited a new book that will guide global researchers and policy makers in the regulation of genetic resources.
  • Australian currency

    Restructuring alone won’t clean up the banks’ act

    Published on: 12 July 2018
    Many entrenched motivations for misconduct in the banking sector have been uncovered by the ongoing royal commission. Not least are the conflicts of interest inherent in the major Australian banks providing financial, insurance and mortgage advice and selling related products.
  • Students studying in law library

    UQ scholarship gives deserving students an opportunity to study law

    Published on: 12 July 2018
    The University of Queensland is offering scholarships for up to 17 students from diverse backgrounds to study at UQ’s internationally-renowned TC Beirne School of Law.

  • Australia Pacific workshop on marine oil spills

    Published on: 11 July 2018
    University of Queensland researchers, government representatives and delegations from six Pacific island states have met to discuss the implementation of the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN).

  • UQ sails to victory in international maritime law competition

    Published on: 9 July 2018
    UQ has claimed its second international mooting title this year after winning the 19th International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot Competition (IMLAM).

  • UQ hosts largest maritime moot competition

    Published on: 29 June 2018
    Almost 200 law students from around the world have converged at The University of Queensland to battle it out for the world champion title of the 19th International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot (IMLAM).

  • Addressing the complexities of legal pluralism

    Published on: 29 June 2018
    Collaborating with international researchers and non-government organisations, The University of Queensland’s Professor Jennifer Corrin is working to find solutions to the problems that arise from legal pluralism – the co-existence of different legal systems within one social field.

  • Book honours UQ law students killed in WWII

    Published on: 26 June 2018
    Eleven young University of Queensland lawyers who died in World War II have been commemorated in a book released yesterday.

  • Law alumni lauded in Queen's birthday honours

    Published on: 22 June 2018
    Four law graduates were among the honourees on the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours list.

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