Radio National’s Paul Barclay speaks with an expert panel including UQ Law Professor Graeme Orr, Stephen Mills (University of Sydney and former speechwriter to Labor PM Bob Hawke), Professor Darren Halpin (Australian National University) and Paula Matthewson (political columnist and former media advisor to John Howard in the early 1990s) on money and politics.
PhD student David Jefferson’s research, is interested in how the legal evolution in Ecuador is representative of a conceptual shift in IP law away from a narrow orientation of privatization and economic growth, towards the utilization of intellectual property (IP) to support communitarian ends.
Dr Justine Bell-James has published an article in The Conversation series examing the strategies, political alignment and policy platforms of ten lobby groups that can influence the upcoming election.
In May, law students Nicholas Lindsay and Rosemary Deeb were selected to help DV Connect develop an organisational policy in relation to ethical fundraising.
Community Legal Centres and university researchers, including academics from UQ TC Beirne School of Law, are meeting on 1 June in Brisbane to ‘nut out’ a solution to the lack of funding to undertake research on the need for free legal help for people living in Queensland.
Two University of Queensland law students have proven their legal prowess by winning the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Mooting competition at the Supreme Court of Queensland.
The future of Australia’s legal profession is bright, based on the sharp young minds honoured for academic achievements and contributions to Australia’s legal services industry at the University of Queensland last night.
May is Domestic and Family Violence Prevention month. At the TC Beirne School of Law, researchers are making an important contribution to community education, policy implementation and law reform.
After winning the national round of the KMPG International Case Competition, four UQ Faculty of Business, Economics and Law students have claimed runner-up position for Australia in the world finals of the prestigious competition.
UQ Law PhD student, Garth Wooler has had an article published in the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. The Singapore Journal of Legal Studies is the flagship law journal of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and one of the oldest law journals in the Commonwealth.
UQ Law Professor Heather Douglas, along with Caroline de Costa, Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at James Cook University, has been published on Crikey.
TC Beirne School of Law student Colin Craig has been offered an internship in Vienna by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for four months from April.
Professor Jennifer Corrin facilitated a Panel on Pacific Legal Systems, Past, Present and Future at The Australian Association of Pacific Studies’ Tides of Transformation conference.
