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  • UQ Pro Bono Centre

    17 year olds in the criminal justice system

    Published on: 31 October 2016
    In October, law students Jane Hall and Jessica Downing-Ide researched and drafted a submission to the Education, Tourism, Innovation and Small Business Committee in support of the proposed youth justice Bill which would allow 17 year olds to be treated as children in the criminal justice systems.
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    UQ law students attending the UN this week

    Published on: 31 October 2016
    Two UQ law students, Annabelle Simpson and Georgina Papworth, are attending the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law at the UN in Vienna this week with Dr Alan Davidson.
  • Jocelyn Bosse with Negotiating Outcomes on Time (NOOT) award.

    UQ law students win multiple awards in NOOT Competition

    Published on: 31 October 2016
    Congratulations to UQ law students who placed highly in the finals of the 2016 Negotiating Outcomes on Time (NOOT) Competition.
  • Courting the Greats

    Law graduate receives UQ Graduate of the Year award

    Published on: 28 October 2016
     Mr Gabriel Perry was named UQ Graduate of the Year at Courting the Greats, UQ's annual alumni awards ceremony held earlier this month.
  • Paul Harpur walking up stairs with his assistance dog.

    Disability assistance animals – have your say

    Published on: 27 October 2016
    Comments are invited on the Disability Assistance Animals or Not? Problems in Policy and Practice Workshop: Summary and Scoping Discussion Paper published last week by UQ’s Professor Paul Harpur, Dr Martie-Louise Verreynne, Professor Nancy Pachana, Associate Professor Peter Billings and Professor Brent Ritchie.
  • Queensland Women in Legal Professional Celebrated

    Queensland Women in Legal Profession Celebrated

    Published on: 25 October 2016
    The Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) hosted its 38th Annual Awards dinner on Friday 21st October at the Hilton Hotel Brisbane.
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    Law alumna wins inaugural Access to Justice Prize

    Published on: 21 October 2016
    A University of Queensland law alumna is the inaugural recipient of the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation’s Access to Justice (A2J) Prize.

  • Abortion reform: Why has Parliament dragged the chain?

    Published on: 19 October 2016
    Professor Graeme Orr published an article in the Brisbane Times, Abortion reform: Why has Parliament dragged the chain? asking why parliament has left the task of modernising abortion laws to the courts. Professor Orr argues that if we are to have laws that reflect the nuances of modern society, our politicians must take a more proactive role in considering law reform.  

  • Long lives aren’t necessarily happy ones in Africa

    Published on: 12 October 2016
    Dr Paul Harpur published an article in The Conversation with Simon Ngalomba of the University of Dar es Salaam, contrasting rising health improvements in Africa with the lack of enforcement of laws protecting the elderly, particularly women.

  • Recent developments in abortion law

    Published on: 12 October 2016
    Professor Heather Douglas (UQ) and Caroline de Costa (JCU) have a new publication in the Medical Journal of Australia on recent developments regarding abortion law in NSW and Queensland.

  • Putting the Cartel Before the House?

    Published on: 12 October 2016
    Professor Graeme Orr recently published a book chapter 'Putting the Cartel Before the House? Public Funding of Parties in Queensland' in Professor Marian Sawer and Dr Anika Gauja (ed), Party Rules? Dilemmas of Political Party Regulation in Australia (ANU Press, Australia 2016) 123-145.

  • Paid domestic violence leave: how do other countries do it?

    Published on: 10 October 2016
    Dr Paul Harper published an article in The Conversation examining how employers support employees dealing with domestic violence.
  • The Tim Carmody Affair

    Carmody crisis the perfect storm for UQ law lecturer

    Published on: 6 October 2016
    Judicial independence expert Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh knew her time in Queensland wasn’t going to be boring when Chief Justice Tim Carmody was controversially sworn into office within a week of her moving to The University of Queensland from New South Wales in 2014.
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    PhD students receive Universitas21 research grant

    Published on: 6 October 2016
    Congratulations to Law PhD students Ana Alexander and Maree Kaiser, and Alexandra Ridgway (Hong Kong University) who have received a Universitas21 graduate research project grant.
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    Supporting women at work - Working Women Queensland

    Published on: 1 October 2016
    Located in the Brisbane CBD, Working Women Queensland is the service delivery arm for not-for profit organisation Queensland Working Women’s Service Inc. 
  • Professor Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf, Professor Paul Oberhammer (Dean of the Faculty of Law), Ms Gaia Puleston (First Secretary, Australian Embassy), Professor Hein Fassmann (Deputy Vice Chancellor Research & International), and Professor Andreas Schloenhardt

    Third Joint UQ-U:Vie organised crime course opens in Vienna

    Published on: 28 September 2016
    The third joint course on transnational organised crime of The University of Queensland and the University of Vienna opened on 26 September 2016 with a reception at the Australian Embassy in Vienna.

  • Separating the sheep from the goats: when is an ‘assistance animal’ a pet?

    Published on: 27 September 2016
    Most of us wouldn’t question the need for a blind person to have their seeing-eye dog with them as they travel in the community, but what if it was an assistance rat or a cat?
  • Professor Anthony Cassimatis and Matthew Tsai

    UQ law student research paper honoured in ‘junior Nobel’ prize

    Published on: 26 September 2016
    Final year UQ TC Beirne School of Law student Matthew Tsai was recently highly commended in an international competition that has been dubbed ‘the junior Nobel Prize’, the Undergraduate Awards.

  • Finals success for UQ ‘underdog’ mooters

    Published on: 26 September 2016
    Two UQ TC Beirne School of Law students fought their way to the grand final of the Australia and New Zealand Air Law Moot on 3-4 September.
  • Published books arranged on a table at the 2016 Law Awards

    TC Beirne School of Law research awards

    Published on: 20 September 2016
    The TC Beirne School of Law celebrated the School’s outstanding research outputs and acknowledged excellence in research on Thursday 18th September during UQ Research Week.

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