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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most of us wouldn’t question the need for a blind person to have their seeing-eye dog with them as they travel in the community, but what if it was an assistance rat or a cat?
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.
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.
Professor Graeme Orr has published an article in The Conversation explaining both why Australians should say "Yes" in the upcoming same-sex marriage plebiscite, and why this is an issue that should be decidided by a direct vote of the electorate.
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.
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.