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Racial inequality, poverty and incarceration rates in the United States and Australia were the focus of a workshop led by a renowned Harvard University sociologist at The University of Queensland this week.

A team of law students and staff at The University of Queensland has developed Australia’s first comprehensive deaths in custody website.

Australian judges and legal professionals now have access to a new version of the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book – an online resource to improve judicial understanding of family violence.

The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law will host a group of leading Australian academics on July 19 for a workshop on ‘crimmigration’ in Australia.

A Research Fellow at UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law has co-edited a new book that will guide global researchers and policy makers in the regulation of genetic resources.

University of Queensland researchers, government representatives and delegations from six Pacific island states have met to discuss the implementation of the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN).

Collaborating with international researchers and non-government organisations, The University of Queensland’s Professor Jennifer Corrin is working to find solutions to the problems that arise from legal pluralism – the co-existence of different legal systems within one social field.

Professor Andreas Schloenhardt will chair the Council of Europe’s new Working Group on the Prevention of Smuggling of Migrants to coincide with World Refugee Day (Wednesday 20 June).

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?

A student, graduate and lecturer from UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law are among a panel of experts who will discuss the future of artificial intelligence (AI) at an innovation event in Brisbane today.

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.