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Some of Australia’s top legal minds will gather at The University of Queensland to collaborate on the relationship of law to emerging technologies as part of an international legal summit.

A future where impairment is accepted as part of human diversity without question or fanfare is the dream of The University of Queensland School of Law’s latest Fulbright Scholar.

Pursuing their passions abroad will be made easier for four University of Queensland business, economics and law students thanks to financial support from the Australian Government’s 2019 New Colombo Plan program.

Professor John Devereux and colleagues discuss the complex issues surrounding the use of genetic data.

Despite sleeping through most of his classes, Kirby Bell was an im-paw-tant guest at The University of Queensland’s December graduation ceremonies.

The four-year-old terrier cross had a job to do – assisting owner Brianna Bell as she graduated from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) program.

Time Magazine has just announced its “Person of the Year” for 2018, and for once, it isn’t one person. This time it is four people and a newspaper.

In name alone, I Dreamed a Dream could well be the appropriate title track to multi-talented Sarah Copley’s time at The University of Queensland.

The high achieving School of Law and UQ Business School graduate not only spent 2018 completing her Bachelor of Business Management/Bachelor of Laws (Honours), but also played the lead role in an amateur theatre production of Les Miserables.

The TC Beirne School of Law’s Dr Justine Bell-James will be engaged in two new research projects that have attracted more than $600,000 in Australian Research Council funding. 

UQ final year law student Sarah Copley shares her experience presenting her essay at the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Conference and the reasons she decided to focus her research on ‘cyborg athletes’.

A three-year partnership between The University of Queensland Law School and national law firm Holding Redlich will provide new research opportunities for students interested in property law.

The University of Queensland Law School is partnering with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to develop university modules on wildlife, forest, and fisheries crime.

University of Queensland law students have been acknowledged for their outstanding mooting achievements at the Law School’s seventh annual David F Jackson Mooting Dinner.

Inspired by his own university experience, leading funds manager Matt McLennan has donated $1 million to The University of Queensland Law School to provide students with collaborative learning spaces.

International lawyer Melinda Taylor talks to Contact about her duty to stand up for basic human rights – even when her own safety is at risk.

Chloe Widmaier is in her first week at law firm Ashurst, and studying at night to finish this semester’s work. She’ll soon graduate with a Bachelor of Laws with a Diploma of Languages in Chinese. In her third year of studying Law, Chloe volunteered at the UQ Pro Bono Centre. She helped refugees on Saturdays at a free clinic run by the Uniting Church to understand the process of applying for asylum.

International experts in law, poverty and social policy will gather at The University of Queensland this week to address some of the key issues associated with homelessness in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

University of Queensland law graduate Anne-Marie Rice has been named the Leneen Forde AC Woman Lawyer of the Year at the annual Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) awards night.

A number of human rights experts at The University of Queensland Law School have welcomed the Queensland Government’s Human Rights legislation tabled in Parliament yesterday. 

An advocate for women’s empowerment, University of Queensland student Sophie Ryan will continue the fight against sexual and gender-based violence in conflict regions as this year’s George George’s Research Scholarship recipient.

It's a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous – and the legal profession is not exempt.