Professionals seeking to strengthen their international expertise now have the option to complete two international Masters degrees in two years in an exciting new University of Queensland offering.
After noticing defendants fare evading and sleeping rough in order to get into the city for a court hearing, two UQ postgraduate students teamed up to do something about it.
Modern democracies need to break through wooden political sloganeering and judicial paternalism to reach a more rational, cooperative and democratic process, according to UQ law Professor Graeme Orr.
UQ law student Matthew Paterson placed as a finalist in the 2016 Governor-General’s Prize, a national essay competition with a judging panel chaired by High Court Justice Stephen Gageler.
Two UQ TC Beirne School of Law academics have published a comprehensive guide to mooting that will inform and influence the School’s academic and mooting programs.
Dr Melanie O’Brien recently spoke to Al Jazeera news about the issues raised in the UN Special Investigation report into the failure of the UN Mission in South Sudan to protect civilians amidst an outbreak of violence in July this year.
Corporate law associate and University of Queensland (UQ) Fellow Karim Issa has spent the weekend in Hong Kong to promote political, economic, and cultural relations.
Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights (SAHR) is a non-profit organisation that aims to increase women’s access to justice through strategic litigation. SAHR’s work is primarily conducted in Afghanistan, and comprises legal research and assistance in litigation and petitions.
The Law of Misstatements: 50 Years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller, edited by UQ Professors Kit Barker, Ross Grantham and Warren Swain received a glowing review from Nicholas Hoggard, Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and Doctoral Scholar at Durham Law School.
Presentation by Dr Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf, Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology at the University of Vienna and Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland on ‘Corruption: Concepts, Control, Concerns’.
In October, law students Jane Hall and Jessica Downing-Ide researched and drafted a submission to the Education, Tourism, Innovation and Small Business Committee in support of the proposed youth justice Bill which would allow 17 year olds to be treated as children in the criminal justice systems.
Two UQ law students, Annabelle Simpson and Georgina Papworth, are attending the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law at the UN in Vienna this week with Dr Alan Davidson.
Comments are invited on the Disability Assistance Animals or Not? Problems in Policy and Practice Workshop: Summary and Scoping Discussion Paper published last week by UQ’s Professor Paul Harpur, Dr Martie-Louise Verreynne, Professor Nancy Pachana, Associate Professor Peter Billings and Professor Brent Ritchie.