Professor Sarah Derrington, Academic Dean & Head of School at The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law has been reappointed to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Board.
The University of Queensland is increasing its focus on access to justice for marginalised people by unlocking the benefits digitalisation is delivering for the legal profession.
Dr Paul Harpur explores the hurdles faced by people with print disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia and quadriplegia in his new book, Discrimination, Copyright and Equality – Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled.
Five talented mooters from The University of Queensland came face to face with esteemed Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz during a trip of a lifetime to Washington D.C.
It’s been 25 years since Eddie Koiki Mabo’s campaign for Indigenous land rights led the High Court to famously overturn the previous laws of traditional land ownership but the gravitas of time and his extraordinary achievements isn’t lost on The University of Queensland.
UQ Constitutional Law Professor Nicholas Aroney, together with Professor John Kincaid (Lafayette College, USA), has edited the just-released Courts in Federal Countries: Federalists or Unitarists?
Sam Walpole entered an esteemed group of The University of Queensland Alumni this month when he was named one of 10 University Medallists from the UQ Business School, School of Economics and TC Beirne School of Law.
Law students from The University of Queensland and the University of Zurich have joined forces for UQ’s flagship human trafficking and migrant smuggling working group.
Almost 200 students from Queensland’s oldest law school have been recognised for their diverse achievements at an award ceremony at Brisbane’s Customs House.
Dr Melanie O'Brien, an expert in genocide studies from the UQ school of law, has condemned the recent anonymous distribution of Holocaust denial flyers around The University of Queensland.
Dr Susannah Chapman, a Research Fellow at UQ, joined the TC Beirne School of Law in 2016 as part of an ARC Laureate Fellowship awarded to Professor Brad Sherman, Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security. In addition to Dr Chapman and Professor Sherman, the project also involves three research fellows and four PhD students.
New-to-UQ contract law lecturer, Ryan Catterwell, moved cross-country to teach at UQ. Hailing from Adelaide, Ryan Catterwell is a selfproclaimed die-hard AFL fanatic (Adelaide Crows) who enjoys writing, running and a good pun. A move into legal practice after university saw Ryan undertake an Associateship with Federal Court Judge, The Honourable Justice Besanko, and then a position at King & Wood Mallesons (Sydney).
The University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law’s highest achieving female law graduate from 2016 was honoured at the Una Prentice Awards this week.
Mark Deng has joined the UQ School of Law as a PhD student on an Australian Postgraduate Award. After spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, Mark arrived in Australia as a teenage refugee from South Sudan.
Earlier this month, the High Court disqualified Family First Senator Bod Day from holding office, on grounds that his election was invalid due to a perceived conflict of interest. ABC Radio's Law Report interviewed Professor Graeme Orr on the implications of this case.
A University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law PhD graduate has received a prestigious grant to work with UQ researchers on developing her thesis recommendations into practical guidelines for law reformers in the Pacific Islands.