Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law

CPICL Director of Public Law, Associate Professor Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, spoke with ABC’s The Law Report about the High Court’s decision

On 11 October 2025, CPICL Fellow and Acting Executive Director (Comparative Law), Dr Renato Costa, had the privilege of being chosen as the honoured academic for the graduating class of 2025 and to deliver the keynote address at the 2025 UQ Law Society Valedictory Dinner.

CPICL Fellow Dr Kim D Weinert hosted the CPICL Comparative Law Seminar, Doing Good by the Book: The Modernisation of Charity Law, at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney.

CPICL Fellow Dr Kim D Weinert, together with Professor Ross Grantham, launched their edited collection, Charity Law and Governance: Private Benefit, Public Purpose and the Regulatory Strategy, at McCullough Robertson.

CPICL warmly congratulates our Director, Professor Nicholas Aroney, who received the Research Excellence Award, and Dr Barbora Jedličková, Coordinator of the International and Comparative Competition Law Program, who received the Research Impact and Engagement Award.

CPICL is proud to announce that Yongjeong Lee, a former CPICL Visiting Fellow under the Korean Law Program, has been appointed as a judge in South Korea.

UQ School of Law hosted a Queensland Academic Roundtable to inform the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor’s Defining Terrorism Review

The University of Queensland Law School had the pleasure of welcoming the President of the Nauru Law Society together with Shahin R. Ali, Legal Specialist with the Nauru Accountable and Inclusive Governance Project (United Nations Development Programme)