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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.

For UQ Law and Economics graduate Mikhara Ramsing, the journey to her dream career included a double degree, a rural road trip, volunteering at Mount Everest and some honest conversations about mental health in Australia. Read more via UQ's Small Change blog.

A future where impairment is accepted as part of human diversity without question or fanfare is the dream of The University of Queensland School of Law’s latest Fulbright Scholar.

Pursuing their passions abroad will be made easier for four University of Queensland business, economics and law students thanks to financial support from the Australian Government’s 2019 New Colombo Plan program.

Professor John Devereux and colleagues discuss the complex issues surrounding the use of genetic data.

Despite sleeping through most of his classes, Kirby Bell was an im-paw-tant guest at The University of Queensland’s December graduation ceremonies.

The four-year-old terrier cross had a job to do – assisting owner Brianna Bell as she graduated from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) program.

Time Magazine has just announced its “Person of the Year” for 2018, and for once, it isn’t one person. This time it is four people and a newspaper.

In name alone, I Dreamed a Dream could well be the appropriate title track to multi-talented Sarah Copley’s time at The University of Queensland.

The high achieving School of Law and UQ Business School graduate not only spent 2018 completing her Bachelor of Business Management/Bachelor of Laws (Honours), but also played the lead role in an amateur theatre production of Les Miserables.

Experts from government, military and academia have convened in Brisbane to discuss the legal and practical implications for states of rapidly advancing weapons technologies.

The TC Beirne School of Law’s Dr Justine Bell-James will be engaged in two new research projects that have attracted more than $600,000 in Australian Research Council funding. 

UQ final year law student Sarah Copley shares her experience presenting her essay at the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Conference and the reasons she decided to focus her research on ‘cyborg athletes’.

A three-year partnership between The University of Queensland Law School and national law firm Holding Redlich will provide new research opportunities for students interested in property law.

The University of Queensland Law School is partnering with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to develop university modules on wildlife, forest, and fisheries crime.

University of Queensland law students have been acknowledged for their outstanding mooting achievements at the Law School’s seventh annual David F Jackson Mooting Dinner.