Election day was over four weeks ago. Yet the outcome in one House of Representatives remains unclear. Professor Graeme Orr explores policies around electoral seats being challenged, the impact of informal votes and accountability in campaigning. theconversation.com/in-bradfield...

Professor Justine Bell-James writes for The Conversation Australia + NZ. Can Murray Watt fix Australia’s broken nature laws? First stop, Western Australia theconversation.com/can-murray-w...

Age-Ed is a new support network for care partners for older persons at the University of Queensland. Join us on May 27 for a relaxed morning tea designed to bring care partners for older persons from the UQ community together. Find out more and register at: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/age-ed-car...

📢New publication "3D bioprinting innovation and the patentability hurdle" by Dr Pratap Devarapalli, Dianne Nicol and Jane Nielsen ‪ @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @arccoesb.bsky.social @utas.edu.au

With the election of Sussan Ley as the new leader of the Liberal Party, Professors Justine Bell-James (UQ) and Samantha Hepburn (Deakin) have co-authored a timely analysis for The Conversation Australia + NZ exploring where Ley stands on 4 key environmental and energy issues.

Brad Sherman places the arguments in Siva Thambisetty’s article in historical context to reflect on the ‘unprecedented’ nature of the BBNJ, and the novelty of its relationship with other international laws that regulate access and use of genetic resources. www.modernlawreview.co.uk/sherman-tham...

Visitor Program! Applications for UQ Law's Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Indigenous Fellowships are now open, and close 30 April 2025. We welcome applications from those who wish to undertake a period of research at the School between 1 July 2025 and 1 Dec 2026. law.uq.edu.au/research/vis...

Jennifer Corrin (UQLaw) recently chaired and presented at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism, University of Texas. Joining her on the Panel on Pacific Island Constitutions were Mele Tupou Vaitohi (Uni of Wellington) Vito Bredaand (UNISQ) & Dr Unaisi Narawa (recorded presentation-Uni of Waikato)

Phillipa McCormack (University of Adelaide) and Justine Bell-James (UQ Law) share thoughts on how an amendment to the EPBC Act to protect the salmon industry in Macquarie Harbour, is at the expense of the environment. theconversation.com/protecting-s...

Goncagul Baris, a PhD student with our University of Queensland @uqlaw.bsky.social node is working with @ebrc.org on #SpaceHealth to develop a roadmap for the US space agency, #NASA. 🚀👩‍🚀 #SyntheticBiology Check out the full story 👇 bit.ly/4iq7CYF

Organised crime and corruption: Taking a modern approach to an age-old problem UQ Law academics Andreas Schloenhardt & Radha Ivory discuss the need for a broader legal approach to target not just individual crimes, but also the organisations and financiers behind them law.uq.edu.au/article/2025...

Join us for Age-Ed Launch Event, “The Heart and Science of Aged Care”. Speakers: Professor Sarah Holland-Batt and Dr Glenda Powell AM, in conversation with Associate Professor Radha Ivory. 13 March 2025, 12–1pm Register at: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-heart-...

UQ PhD supervisor Justine Bell-James and her candidate Rose Foster, discuss what it’s like to complete a PhD in environmental law at UQ and how their findings can make a real and lasting difference to the world we live in. study.uq.edu.au/stories/coul...

UQ Law welcomes Prof Eva Lohse (University of Bayreuth, Germany). Prof Lohse is visiting under the Qld-Bavaria Collaborative Research Program to collaborate with Prof Justine Bell-James on commonalities and differences in EU and Australian policy approaches to renewable energies and climate change.

[New Blog 🖋️] Dr. Rebecca Ananian-Welsh examines the High Court of Australia’s ruling, which struck down curfews & electronic monitoring for ‘undeportable’ migrants as unconstitutional, and discuss this major shift in limiting administrative power over liberty: https://buff.ly/4hvf9V8

New European Journal of Political Theory article by @nicholasaroney.bsky.social & Simon P Kennedy from ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems. "The prime and fountain-power”: Law, sovereignty, and constituent power in Samuel Rutherford’s Lex, Rex (1644) doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Congratulations @nicholasaroney.bsky.social, George Duke & Stephen Tierney on the article ‘A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems’ listed in the top ten best articles published in 2024 by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. doi.org/10.1017/S204...

International lawyers never run out of ideas about changing international law. However, the concept of ‘reform’ lacks elaboration in international legal theory, argues Radha Ivory. In her new EJIL article, she tackles this gap head-on. doi.org/10.1093/ejil...

An interesting read by UQ Law’s Prof Graeme Orr, considering constitutional conventions surrounding the question of who decides (and how) if an MP is qualified to sit in Parliament. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

📢 In collaboration with @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social , we've launched Best Practice Guidelines for scientists working with genetic resources. #NagoyaProtocol Take a look here ⬇️ www.coesb.com.au/research/nag...

UQLaw students w Prof Andreas Schloenhardt in the International Law Program at the University of Vienna, to explore international courts, tribunals and laws relating to space technologies and human rights, among others Applications for 2026 open in August employability.uq.edu.au/university-v...

Now published: 'Life and Death in Private Law' edited by Kate Falconer, Kit Barker and Andrew Fell bit.ly/3D6Wksr #PrivateLaw @uqlaw.bsky.social

A new article in Nature Food by Kamalesh Adhikari, Brad Sherman, Henrietta Marrie et al examines the right to control the use of traditional lands and genetic resources, access and benefit-sharing schemes for Indigenous peoples, using the example of the Burdekin plum www.nature.com/articles/s43...