The TC Beirne School of Law and the University of Queensland were honoured on 11 April 2017 to host an important lecture by the Attorney-General for Australia, Senator the Honourable George Brandis QC.
Dr Melanie O'Brien, an expert in genocide studies from the UQ school of law, has condemned the recent anonymous distribution of Holocaust denial flyers around The University of Queensland.
Dr Susannah Chapman, a Research Fellow at UQ, joined the TC Beirne School of Law in 2016 as part of an ARC Laureate Fellowship awarded to Professor Brad Sherman, Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security. In addition to Dr Chapman and Professor Sherman, the project also involves three research fellows and four PhD students.
Mark Deng has joined the UQ School of Law as a PhD student on an Australian Postgraduate Award. After spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, Mark arrived in Australia as a teenage refugee from South Sudan.
A University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law PhD graduate has received a prestigious grant to work with UQ researchers on developing her thesis recommendations into practical guidelines for law reformers in the Pacific Islands.
