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The University of Queensland’s Law subject area has jumped ahead by four places in the 2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject, improving its position to 39th in the world. 

A University of Queensland research project designed to develop a better understanding of the legal response to domestic violence has secured federal government funding for 2020.

For The Conversation: Dr David Jefferson explains the intellectual property law that gives courts more options to protect plant breeders' rights.

For The Conversation: Professor Tamara Walsh says many young people are being charged with criminal offences while in the child protection system.

Two Law School staff members were among those honoured at UQ's Faculty of Business, Economics and Law staff excellence awards.

For The Conversation: Professor Graeme Orr breaks down Scott Morrison's vow to outlaw boycott campaigns helmed by activists - and explains why the mining industry doesn't need protection.

For The Conversation: Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh explains what an Australian Media Freedom Act might look like and how it could work.

Inspiring tales of collaboration between researchers from UQ’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) and their non-profit and community partners are the focus of the 2019 BEL Research Profile.

Federal Government Wrong to Take the Moral High Ground on the Legal Claims of the Tamil Family: opinion piece featured in The Guardian, written by Associate Professor Peter Billings and Dr Joseph Lelliott on the Tamil family’s plight.

For The Conversation: Professor Graeme Orr explains the substance and process at play in the challenges to the results in the Victorian seats of Kooyong and Chisholm at the 2019 federal election.

The University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard University researchers have been contracted by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission to undertake research to help protect the rights of people living with a disability and decrease the likelihood they will experience abuse, neglect and exploitation.

Victoria’s commitment to a non-fatal strangulation offence will make a difference to vulnerable women. Heather Douglas writes for The Conversation.

Rebecca Ananian-Welsh writes an explainer: What are the media companies’ challenges to the AFP raids about?

How a UQ researcher helped design new laws to protect migrants and refugees in Pakistan

Rebecca Ananian-Welsh writes for The Conversation about recent raids by the Australian Federal Police on journalists.

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 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.