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  • Turning back the boats is a moral and legal failure, say academics

    Published on: 13 March 2015
    The first academic analysis of Australia’s “turning back” of asylum seeker boats concludes the policy is a fatally risky, moral and legal failure that is “severely damaging” the country’s reputation.

  • Class of 2015 Law Students Welcomed

    Published on: 13 March 2015
    On Thursday 5th March the TC Beirne School of Law welcomed the class of 2015 law students with an informal reception at the UQ Art Museum. The students were welcomed by Professor Sarah Derrington, Dean of Law, who encouraged the new students to connect with their fellow cohort, to join the available societies and clubs, and to stand out in their future steps towards their career goals.

  • Expert welcomes organised crime inquiry

    Published on: 23 February 2015
    The Queensland Government’s move to establish a commission of inquiry into organised crime has been welcomed by University of Queensland law academic Andreas Schloenhardt.
  • Partners of the

    Solomon Islands Workshop for Developing Research Capacity

    Published on: 2 February 2015
    The University of Queensland has had a long association with the Solomon Islands Government, fostered by the UQ Solomon Islands Partnership (UQSIP) at UQ, which is convened by Professor Jennifer Corrin (Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at the TC Beirne School of Law) and Professor Clive Moore (McCaughey Chair in History).

  • Panel Discussion: Penetrating Covert Policing Practice

    Published on: 30 January 2015
    Damian Carrick from Radio Nation’s Law Report discussed the legal, ethical and operational complexities of covert policing in the following podcast: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/

  • CPICL Founder and Director, Emeritus Professor Suri Ratnapala is honoured for his contribution to law and legal scholarship

    Published on: 28 January 2015
    After 27 years of service to the Law School and a decade of leadership at the helm of CPICL, Suri Ratnapala retired from the School and from his role as a CPICL Director in December[2014].

  • DNA evidence and due process paper

    Published on: 23 January 2015
    UQ Law PhD Candidate Jessica Ritchie has recently published an article on the principles of procedural justice and due process in relation to DNA evidence. Probabilistic DNA evidence: the layperson’s interpretation in the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences.
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    The Great Barrier Reef should not be listed as 'in danger'

    Published on: 18 December 2014
    The Australian government has stepped up its campaign this month to prevent the Great Barrier Reef being listed as a World Heritage site “in danger” at international meetings next year.

  • UQ student named New Colombo Plan Fellow to India

    Published on: 18 December 2014
    University of Queensland student Zoe Brereton was in the thick of studying for law exams when she learned she had been selected as Australia’s New Colombo Plan Fellow to India.
  • Scarborough, Queensland

    Complacency rules as Queensland makes risky edict on sea-level rise

    Published on: 12 December 2014
    As certainty over future sea-level rise increases, planning protections are being wound back right across Australia.

  • ACPL: Hedley Byrne Symposium

    Published on: 24 July 2014
    On 24 July 2014, the Australian Centre for Private Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, in co-operation with the Bar Association of Queensland, held a one-day symposium to commemorate 50 years since the land-mark decision of the House of Lords in Hedley Byrne v Heller on liability for negligent misstatement and pure economic loss.

  • ACPL launches illuminating collection of essays

    Published on: 26 February 2014
    The Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) hosted the official launch of ‘Private Law: Key Encounters with Public Law' (Cambridge University Press) at an event in Brisbane on 13 February, 2014.
  • Law books on a shelf

    Book launch: Private Law - Key Encounters with Public Law

    Published on: 11 December 2013
    UQ private law experts Professor Kit Barker and Dr Darryn Jensen have recently published an edited collection of essays entitled Private Law - Key Encounters with Public Law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2013).

  • UQ Law Academic Appointed Inaugural Professor in Residence at QSCL

    Published on: 5 November 2013
    Dr Warren Swain has been appointed the first Professor-in-Residence at the Queensland Supreme Court Library.
  • Professor Kit Barker; Dr Warren Swain; Professor Ross Grantham; Dr Darryn Jensen

    UQ Law School officially launches private law research centre

    Published on: 9 October 2013
    UQ researchers and members of the legal profession were among the guests who attended the official launch of UQ's Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) on 19 September, 2013.
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    Carbon farming could restore Australia’s southern coastal wetlands

    Published on: 8 May 2013
    Carbon farming could be encouraged in coastal wetlands, with restoration and improved management providing the possibility of benefits for biodiversity, fisheries, coastal protection and recreation.

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