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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.

Power imbalances are rife through modern society. The State has wide-ranging discretions as to whether it should grant a business licence, take custody of a child, or rezone a property – all of which have the potential to harm or help individuals.

UQ researchers and members of the legal profession were among the guests who attended the official launch of UQ's Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) on 19 September, 2013.

Dr Warren Swain has been appointed the first Professor-in-Residence at the Queensland Supreme Court Library.

UQ private law experts Professor Kit Barker and Dr Darryn Jensen have recently published an edited collection of essays entitled Private Law - Key Encounters with Public Law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2013).

The Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) hosted the official launch of ‘Private Law: Key Encounters with Public Law' (Cambridge University Press) at an event in Brisbane on 13 February, 2014.

On 24 July 2014, the Australian Centre for Private Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, in co-operation with the Bar Association of Queensland, held a one-day symposium to commemorate 50 years since the land-mark decision of the House of Lords in Hedley Byrne v Heller on liability for negligent misstatement and pure economic loss.