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The Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) hosted its 38th Annual Awards dinner on Friday 21st October at the Hilton Hotel Brisbane.

A University of Queensland law alumna is the inaugural recipient of the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation’s Access to Justice (A2J) Prize.

A special edition of the Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal has just been published with a collection of papers that address a range of current commercial and regulatory issues within the shipping and maritime spheres in the Asia-Pacific region.

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.

Dr Paul Harper published an article in The Conversation examining how employers support employees dealing with domestic violence.

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.

Discover how understanding your personality can help you plan for a healthy and successful career by attending TC Beirne School of Law’s Finding Fit - Making Wellness part of your Career Plan on 12 October.

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.

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.

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.