News and Insights

Red Wine for Justice is a fundraising event held annually by QPILCH. This year UQ Law alumni, Marissa Dooris, Josh McGeechan and Bianca Kabel, presented on QPILCH’s recent accomplishment in assisting a client experiencing significant mental health concerns trying to avoid homelessness.

When Lachlan Campbell attends the G20 Youth Summit (Y20) in August as the Head of the Global Voices Australian delegation, he will be representing thousands of young Australians as part of a unique opportunity.

For three weeks in August 2015 Professor Leigh Goodmark of the Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law visited Australia as a Fulbright Specialist Scholar.

The Centre of Public International and Comparative Law and the Law School were honoured to host ‘a conversation’ between Emeritus Professor Suri Ratnapala of the TC Beirne School of Law and Professor Jimly Asshiddiqie, the first Chief Justice of the Indonesia Constitutional Court.

The Centre of Public International and Comparative Law and the Law School were honoured to host ‘a conversation’ between Emeritus Professor Suri Ratnapala of the TC Beirne School of Law and Professor Jimly Asshiddiqie, the first Chief Justice of the Indonesia Constitutional Court.

If work ethic is anything to go by, aspiring Olympian and University of Queensland law graduate Aisling Scott will one day be a gold medal lawyer.

The 16th Annual International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot 2015 was held in Melbourne from 3 – 7 July 2015.

On 10 and 11 July the TC Beirne School of Law and CPICL hosted the conference ‘Judicial Independence in Australia: Contemporary Challenges, Future Directions’. This was an initiative of CPICL Fellows Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Associate Professor Jonathan Crowe.

A University of Queensland arts/law graduate with a passion for human rights has won Cambridge University’s coveted Whewell Scholarship in International Law.

The University of Queensland's Law Associate Professor Jonathan Crowe has his paper 'Human, All Too Human: Human Fallibility and the Separation of Powers' featured on the Australian Public Law website today.

Human rights are under attack from the creep of anti-terror style legislation to the criminal justice system, UQ law lecturer Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh has warned in a recent report.

The TC Beirne School of Law 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) was held Friday 19th June. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) celebrates the exciting research conducted by PhD students.

He has presided over some of Queensland’s highest profile criminal trials, but former Justice George Fryberg is probably best known for taking on the Newman Government’s controversial anti-bikie laws.

The University of Queensland’s Law Professor Nicholas Aroney has his paper 'Federalism Reform: Pathways and Obstacles’ featured on the Australian Public Law website today.

The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law was honoured to play host to a visit by Dr Thomas Albrecht, the Regional Representative for Australia and Oceania of UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Twenty-two young indigenous Australians were given a sneak peek at their possible futures during the first InspireU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law Camp in March.

The Attorney-General Australia, Senator George Brandis QC, has announced Professor Heather Douglas from The University of Queensland TC Beirne Schoool of Law, will develop a National domestic violence benchbook in partnership with the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration.

The TC Beirne School of Law Annual Awards Ceremony was held on 20 May 2015. This event has become an important tradition for the school to acknowledge it’s fine students, the quality of the teaching staff and the significant contribution made by it’s stakeholders who generously contribute each year to make the awards for academic excellence possible.