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- University of Queensland legal researchers are spearheading the formation of an international network of experts to help address global issues such as cybercrime, food security, and climate change.
- A two-year probe by Australia’s consumer watchdog has resulted in criminal charges against ANZ, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, as well as six of their senior executives, over alleged “cartel-like” behaviour.
- A University of Queensland researcher is among a team of international experts working with the United Nations (UN) on a new electronic commerce Model Law for international trade.
- ASX data shows that 80 percent of companies expect an increase in cyber risk over the next year, but who is responsible when cybercrimes occur?
- 17 May 2018Professor Jennifer Corrin has contributed to the ILA Reporter, discussing the application of international human rights standards relating to the rights of the child in the South Pacific.
- Dr Mark Burdon, a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law, sheds light on the issues that artificial intelligence raises in the legal sector and explores the new technological advances providing ‘sensor data’.
- It’s World Intellectual Property Day. Some of TC Beirne School of Law’s intellectual property researchers working in the area of food security talk about protecting IP and the role of IP in innovation and creativity.
- The Weekend Australian Magazine has featured the work of TC Beirne School of Law domestic violence researcher Professor Heather Douglas.
- Reports recently emerged of accusations against Uber drivers in the United Kingdom regularly refusing to take a cerebral palsy sufferer as a passenger because of her service dog.
- The Gold Coast Commonwealth Games have finally kicked off, but esports have been left out of the schedule. Esports are video game competitions – generally strategy and fighting games, but also sports. It is a burgeoning field, especially among younger demographics and in Asia Pacific and the United States.
- Academics, lawyers, judges, economists, and students from around the world will gather in Brisbane today to progress research on anti-cartel law enforcement.
- 21 March 2018Scholars and practitioners of democracy and constitutional law will soon have access to an international reference point thanks to a new handbook co-edited by the Law School’s Professor Graeme Orr.
- Australians who commit white-collar crimes such as fraud should face stronger penalties according to a University of Queensland researcher.
- The TC Beirne School of Law has leapt ahead in the QS World University Rankings by Subject improving 12 places from 48th to 36th position.
- On any given night in Australia one in 200 people are homeless, and according to a UQ law researcher, homelessness among women and children is becoming a growing problem.
- 15 February 2018More effective cross-border cooperation between Australia and China on the prevention and policing of terrorism in the Asia-Pacific is the focus of a TC Beirne School of Law research project.
- Constitutional law expert Professor Nicholas Aroney is one of five people to be appointed by the Prime Minister to an Expert Panel to examine whether Australian law adequately protects the human right to freedom of religion.
- 5 February 2018TC Beirne School of Law's Dr Susannah Chapman has been successful in securing a 2018 University of Queensland Development Fellowship for her project to explore the transformation of intellectual property (IP) and the effects on the Australian agricultural sector.