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The Australian Defence Department has identified “trusted autonomous systems” as a priority area of work for strategic research, but Dr Eve Massingham says there are many international and domestic legal questions yet unanswered.

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This post attempts to survey the legal standards relevant to the development, acquisition, and use of an AWS in armed conflict and highlights some of the particular challenges that autonomy in weapon systems can pose to States and to those who set the standards and are responsible for compliance.

Australia had no counter-terrorism laws before 9/11 and now we have 92. UQ's Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Griffith University's Keiran Hardy examine if the new laws have actually made us safer.

Discover what makes the courses offered in The University of Queensland Master of Laws (LLM) ideal for practising lawyers looking to specialise in an area of law.

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Since March 2020, the UQ Pro Bono Centre has been involved in a partnership project with Mount Gravatt Community Centre Inc. (MGCCI) to provide a community legal education program for leaders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities.

UQ Associate Professor Paul Harpur and Peter D. Blanck of Syracuse University argue that university students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases, and COVID-19 is no different.

INTERVIEW | Disadvantaged children can receive criminal sanctions after committing crimes of necessity.

ARTICLE | Who’s Liberal? What’s Labor? Professor Graeme Orr argues the new bill to give established parties control of their names is poorly drafted and full of holes.

Creating a better future for people with disabilities is the vision of a leading academic who has received a highly competitive ARC Future Fellowship.

UQ constitutional law expert Professor Nicholas Aroney argues the idea of ‘passports’ to enable citizens to travel within Australia is not a good precedent to set.

ANALYSIS | Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations by separating military and civilian networks

UQ Law School students were recognised for their outstanding contributions to pro bono legal service at the recent UQ Law Awards.

Dr Mark Deng has travelled a long road – from his childhood home in war-torn South Sudan, through refugee camps, and finally, to Australia – to arrive at his current position at the TC Beirne School of Law.

Professor Tamara Walsh finds that for some children, the basic comforts available in youth detention facilities make their incarceration far more appealing than life in the sometimes disadvantaged homes they were fleeing.

Students, their family and friends, staff, special guests and members of the profession came together to celebrate the 2021 UQ Law Awards.

The UQ Pro Bono Centre regularly partners with seven Brisbane-based Community Legal Centres each semester to offer students work-integrated learning for academic credit.

South Sudan’s Chief Justice, Chan Reec Madut, has been implicated in serious corruption allegations since independence. As a consequence, the constitutional lines of power have become blurred as his overreach interferes with the separation of powers.

A parliamentary inquiry has endorsed Professor Patrick Parkinson’s proposal for a multidisciplinary tribunal to manage parenting disputes for those unable to afford legal representation.