The University of Queensland is preparing for an increased uptake in post-graduate legal courses as lawyers, consultants and accountants prepare to implement the Government’s carbon tax scheme, due to take effect in July 2012.

26 July 2011

Research undertaken by legal academics from The University of Queensland suggests that Australia is right to act with caution in dealing with Sharia law.

20 July 2011

UQ’s Professor John Quiggin has been named the 2011 Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.

20 July 2011
Family tradition: Elizabeth Mathews shares her graduation day joy with her parents Peter and Robyn-Ann and her brother James, who are all UQ alumni.

What began as a blind game of chance has turned into a dedication to helping people understand the complexities of refugee and asylum laws.

20 July 2011

Law professionals will get the opportunity to share their expertise and engage with some of the world’s leading legal academics at two law conferences being hosted by The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law this month.

19 July 2011

Graeme Wood is one of Queensland's most successful entrepreneurs and a national leader in philanthropy for education, arts, the environment and youth.

13 July 2011
Lucy Bechtel (right) with members of The Global Sunrise at UQ

A University of Queensland graduate is playing her part in an ambitious solar energy project in Africa.

12 July 2011

Winning The University of Queensland (UQ) Business School’s Enterprize business plan competition a few years ago gave Queensland entrepreneur and UQ IT graduate Mark Bathie just the lift into the “cloud” he needed.

10 July 2011
2011 Churchill Fellow Associate Professor Andreas Schloenhardt

UQ academic Andreas Schloenhardt has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to help Australian law enforcement agencies fight the $15 billion problem of organised crime.

6 July 2011

UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law has been ranked 35th for law in the Social Sciences category of the latest QS World University Rankings® survey.

5 July 2011
UQ law academic, Paul O’Shea’s, research into disclosure statements was incorporated into the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Bill 2011.

Research conducted by The University of Queensland’s (UQ) TC Beirne School of Law was used to support new consumer credit protection legislation passed by the Senate yesterday.

5 July 2011
Jack Manning Bancroft

Singer Jessica Mauboy and youth mentoring advocate Jack Manning Bancroft are among the young indigenous leaders who will help celebrate NAIDOC Week at The University of Queensland.

24 June 2011
The Northern Territory is one of Australia's most popular tourist destinations. Image Cameron McCool

An international expert has highlighted the importance of the Chinese tourism market at a recent symposium hosted by The University of Queensland.

20 June 2011

The University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law has again joined forces with leading law firm Minter Ellison to present its first intensive Corporate Takeovers course.

17 June 2011

Students from Brisbane State High School were presented with prizes donated by UQ's TC Beirne School of Law at the International Humanitarian Law Paper Presentation Competition held at the Federal Court of Australia recently.

15 June 2011
A UQ research project aims to understand the ANZAC spirit in the 21st century

People who have an interest in the ANZAC tradition including those who have made a pilgrimage to Gallipoli are invited to take part in a new UQ research project.

6 June 2011

The race is on for innovative Australians with a great start-up idea to win 100,000 dollars by entering the nation’s richest business competition.

2 June 2011

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PAY FOR is a new public awareness campaign, to be launched on Wednesday, June 1, designed to raise awareness about the reality of human trafficking in Australia.

30 May 2011
University of Queensland Business School student Joshua Hammond

In a short space of time, University of Queensland Business School student Joshua Hammond has established a successful filmmaking business and has his mission all mapped out.

28 May 2011

A forthcoming UQ Water Law course will use lessons learned from Queensland’s floods as part of an intensive introduction to Australian water resources law and policy.

28 May 2011