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  • How to win moots and influence people

    Published on: 3 November 2016
    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

    Peacekeeping operations require strong leadership

    Published on: 2 November 2016
    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.
  • Karim Issa

    Young leaders strengthen Australia-China ties

    Published on: 2 November 2016
    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)

    Supporting legal arguments for Afghanistan women

    Published on: 1 November 2016
    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.
  • Law books on a shelf

    The Law of Misstatements receives glowing review

    Published on: 1 November 2016
    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.
  • Ambassador Dr Bernhard Zimburg (Ambassador of Austria to Australia), Professor Andreas Schloenhardt (UQ), Professor Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf (UQ, U:Vie), Professor Sarah Derrington (UQ), Ms Alison Carrington (DFAT)

    Corruption: Concepts, Control, Concerns

    Published on: 1 November 2016
    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’.
  • UQ Pro Bono Centre

    17 year olds in the criminal justice system

    Published on: 31 October 2016
    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.
  • UN World Flags

    UQ law students attending the UN this week

    Published on: 31 October 2016
    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.
  • Jocelyn Bosse with Negotiating Outcomes on Time (NOOT) award.

    UQ law students win multiple awards in NOOT Competition

    Published on: 31 October 2016
    Congratulations to UQ law students who placed highly in the finals of the 2016 Negotiating Outcomes on Time (NOOT) Competition.
  • Courting the Greats

    Law graduate receives UQ Graduate of the Year award

    Published on: 28 October 2016
     Mr Gabriel Perry was named UQ Graduate of the Year at Courting the Greats, UQ's annual alumni awards ceremony held earlier this month.
  • Paul Harpur walking up stairs with his assistance dog.

    Disability assistance animals – have your say

    Published on: 27 October 2016
    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.
  • Queensland Women in Legal Professional Celebrated

    Queensland Women in Legal Profession Celebrated

    Published on: 25 October 2016
    The Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) hosted its 38th Annual Awards dinner on Friday 21st October at the Hilton Hotel Brisbane.
  • Camille Boileau

    Law alumna wins inaugural Access to Justice Prize

    Published on: 21 October 2016
    A University of Queensland law alumna is the inaugural recipient of the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation’s Access to Justice (A2J) Prize.

  • Abortion reform: Why has Parliament dragged the chain?

    Published on: 19 October 2016
    Professor Graeme Orr published an article in the Brisbane Times, Abortion reform: Why has Parliament dragged the chain? asking why parliament has left the task of modernising abortion laws to the courts. Professor Orr argues that if we are to have laws that reflect the nuances of modern society, our politicians must take a more proactive role in considering law reform.  

  • Long lives aren’t necessarily happy ones in Africa

    Published on: 12 October 2016
    Dr Paul Harpur published an article in The Conversation with Simon Ngalomba of the University of Dar es Salaam, contrasting rising health improvements in Africa with the lack of enforcement of laws protecting the elderly, particularly women.

  • Recent developments in abortion law

    Published on: 12 October 2016
    Professor Heather Douglas (UQ) and Caroline de Costa (JCU) have a new publication in the Medical Journal of Australia on recent developments regarding abortion law in NSW and Queensland.

  • Putting the Cartel Before the House?

    Published on: 12 October 2016
    Professor Graeme Orr recently published a book chapter 'Putting the Cartel Before the House? Public Funding of Parties in Queensland' in Professor Marian Sawer and Dr Anika Gauja (ed), Party Rules? Dilemmas of Political Party Regulation in Australia (ANU Press, Australia 2016) 123-145.

  • Paid domestic violence leave: how do other countries do it?

    Published on: 10 October 2016
    Dr Paul Harper published an article in The Conversation examining how employers support employees dealing with domestic violence.
  • The Tim Carmody Affair

    Carmody crisis the perfect storm for UQ law lecturer

    Published on: 6 October 2016
    Judicial independence expert Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh knew her time in Queensland wasn’t going to be boring when Chief Justice Tim Carmody was controversially sworn into office within a week of her moving to The University of Queensland from New South Wales in 2014.
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    PhD students receive Universitas21 research grant

    Published on: 6 October 2016
    Congratulations to Law PhD students Ana Alexander and Maree Kaiser, and Alexandra Ridgway (Hong Kong University) who have received a Universitas21 graduate research project grant.

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