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Located in the Brisbane CBD, Working Women Queensland is the service delivery arm for not-for profit organisation Queensland Working Women’s Service Inc. 

The third joint course on transnational organised crime of The University of Queensland and the University of Vienna opened on 26 September 2016 with a reception at the Australian Embassy in Vienna.

Final year UQ TC Beirne School of Law student Matthew Tsai was recently highly commended in an international competition that has been dubbed ‘the junior Nobel Prize’, the Undergraduate Awards.

Two UQ TC Beirne School of Law students fought their way to the grand final of the Australia and New Zealand Air Law Moot on 3-4 September.

The TC Beirne School of Law celebrated the School’s outstanding research outputs and acknowledged excellence in research on Thursday 18th September during UQ Research Week.

On Thursday, 15 September 2016, Legal industry expert Margaret Jolly and UQ’s Dr Mark Burdon presented on using social media to maximise law employment opportunities.

From July to August, the Centre examined the availability of legal support services for families involved in coronial inquests in Queensland, in situations where a relative has suffered a workplace fatality.

The TC Beirne School of Law’s Marine and Shipping Law Unit convened and facilitated a workshop on the implementation of the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN) on behalf of, and in conjunction with, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) on 1 and 2 September 2016.

Anorexic patients should be allowed to refuse treatment if they are assessed as having capacity to make that decision, according to University of Queensland Law PhD candidate who won a recent faculty-level competition to pitch his thesis topic in a three minute pitch.

The Women in Law Awards announced University of Queensland student Megan Applegarth as a finalist for Law Student of the Year.

On Monday, 12 September 2016, The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG delivered the lecture “After the High Court of Australia: the Growing Globalisation of Law” at the University of Queensland.

A $2 million donation from the University of Queensland Endowment Fund (UQef) will create opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study at UQ’s prestigious TC Beirne School of Law.

On Wednesday evening, hosted by the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney and video-linked to courts in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, Adjunct Professor Holmes QC delivered the AMTAC Address on the topic "Maritime Arbitration - Old & New" on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission (AMTAC).

The University of Queensland has been awarded almost $1 million in the latest round of Federal Government New Colombo Plan mobility program funding.

The TC Beirne School of Law is enjoying a research renaissance, charting a 68 percent increase in research income according to deputy head Professor Simon Bronitt.

University of Queensland law students shared their knowledge with their Myanmar counterparts during a recent visit, in an effort to increase their understanding of access to justice.

Professor Heather Douglas is quoted on the Gerard Baden-Clay's murder conviction.