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Will text analytics render lower-level law jobs redundant as machines learn to search files and produce answers? How far away is digital legislation that can be executed by machines? Should lawyers learn how to code?

After years of uncertainty about the future of the family law system, the next government now has a clear roadmap for how to amend the law, and improve the system of justice, Academic Dean and Head of TC Beirne School of Law, Patrick Parkinson writes for The Conversation.

A new competition will give Law students the opportunity to transform the profession through technology, with a prize of $10,000.

International business lawyers must have a good understanding of the Chinese legal system, University of Queensland Academic Dean and Head of UQ School of Law Professor Patrick Parkinson has confirmed.

Our School has partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to develop modules on wildlife, forest, and fisheries crime. UQ Law students joined their counterparts from Vienna and Zurich to trade knowledge and ideas and meet some of the animals they’d be working to save.

The High Court has decided, for the first time, the approach that should be taken to resolving native title compensation claims.

University of Queensland researchers working in criminal justice and domestic violence have influenced key legal reforms designed to better protect Australian women from domestic violence.

Researchers are launching a $9 million study which aims to embed ethics and the law into autonomous defence systems, such as self-driving military vehicles.

In a nation described by a World Bank report as “one of the most unequal”, a University of Queensland Law School expert has detailed the correlation between child sex abuse and poor socio-economic groups.

The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law will once again send a team to Washington DC to compete in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Why Filipino journalist Maria Ressa’s arrest should matter to all of us

The Hayne Royal Commission has been described as “one of the most consequential royal commissions ever conducted in Australia”. Dr Vicky Comino breaks down what the commissioner has promised - and explains why it might not be delivered.

Australia Day 2019 Honours have been conferred on four alumni and friends from the TC Beirne School of Law.

UQ Law students are taking their skills from the Queensland class room to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as they complete internships to expand their practical law experience.

Dr Justine Bell-James explains the recent NSW Land and Environment Court's landmark judgement, confirming a decision to refuse a new open-cut coal mine.

A team of University of Queensland staff and students have taken the next step in their project on trafficking in persons, following a presentation to a group of international experts at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria.

Migrant women with temporary visa status are particularly vulnerable when it comes to domestic and family violence. That vulnerability is intensified when you add technology to the mix.

How did you spend your summer vacation? Six University of Queensland Law students decided to expand their horizons with a study trip to the United States. Students Emily McClelland and Harry Meixner share their experience.

“Make Australia Great.” So began several million text messages, sent last week from Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party. Palmer’s bumptious campaign techniques actually predated those of Donald Trump.

Some of Australia’s top legal minds will gather at The University of Queensland to collaborate on the relationship of law to emerging technologies as part of an international legal summit.