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- 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.
- 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 near Gloucester in the Hunter Valley.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.