Initial investigations by a team of UQ law student researchers into whether the new Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS) represents “slavery or salvation” for unskilled migrant workers will be presented at a public lecture next week.

13 September 2010

An alumnus of UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law, Dr Kala Mulqueeny, has been named a Yale World Fellow for 2010.

16 August 2010

A research project undertaken by a group of UQ TC Beirne School of Law undergraduate students has exposed the widely believed election myth that boat people are “flooding our borders”.

16 August 2010

The most comprehensive postgraduate mining law course in Queensland, presented by 20 of Australia’s leading mining lawyers, is being offered by UQ next month.

28 July 2010

A new UQ report, launched by The Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, has found that there is no coherent system in place for proof or pleading of Indigenous customary law in Queensland and this forms a barrier for those relying on these laws in...

20 July 2010

The Trade Practices Act (TPA) has recently been amended and company officers can now be jailed for breaching its cartel provisions.

2 July 2010

TC Beirne School of Law Director of Postgraduate Studies Dr Alan Davidson has been invited to become a foundation member of the Council of International Standby Practices (CISP).

29 June 2010

In the lead up to Refugee Week (June 21) a group of University of Queensland law students has taken their coursework beyond the classroom to advocate for the legal rights of asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.

22 June 2010

Landholders will find it easier to understand the laws affecting the sustainable management of their land once a research project by a UQ law academic is complete.

10 June 2010

A one-day seminar taking place at the University of Queensland in July will facilitate the continuing urgent debate about Australia’s offshore constitutional laws and the unsatisfactory nature of the federal issues between the States and the...

25 May 2010

Controversial issues currently confronting the legal profession, such as revisions to the Trade Practices Act 1974, aspects of the law of damages, and sentencing, will be topics for investigation in the 2010 Current Legal Issues (CLI) Seminar Series.

20 May 2010

Company law authority Professor Robert (Bob) Austin will present the TC Beirne School of Law 2010 McPherson Lecture Series in Brisbane next month.

30 April 2010

Students and mentors involved in the UQ Law Mentor Program celebrated the program’s outstanding success at a 2010 welcome function last night (Wednesday 21 April).

22 April 2010

Students from UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law are being sought by one of Japan’s leading law firms for legal editor positions in 2011.

31 March 2010

Two UQ law academics have raised serious concerns regarding proposed Federal Government legislation to extend aspects of the NT emergency response and to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in the Northern Territory.

9 March 2010