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​The Common Article 1 obligation to “ensure respect” for international humanitarian law (IHL) has become a topic of considerable reflection and debate.

SPEECH | Jo-Anne Bragg, General Counsel for the Environmental Defenders Office, talks about cultural change and the legal profession.

Bachelor of Laws (Honours) alumnus and former Australian Law Student of the Year Milan Gandhi has been awarded the Lee Liberman John Monash Scholarship for 2022.

Universities should be a model for the broader community for disability inclusion.

Four UQ students have taken home $10,000 after competing against 100 other students to win the 2021 #TransformLaw KWM Prize. 

Recent Queensland police data points to a steady rise in reporting of domestic and family violence, and the UQ Pro Bono Centre is at the frontline of law reform in this area.

Mandy Shircore, Director of UQ Pro Bono Centre, introduces pro bono work and specific projects underway, including the Vulnerable Persons Project and the Climate Justice Initiative. This article was originally published in Proctor.

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.

For advocacy for survivors of sexual assault and for law reform, and exceptional achievements as an author and for outstanding commitment to serving others.

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.

Thank you very much for your distinguished service and ongoing contribution to our School and our region.

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.