Students currently enrolled in an LLB or JD university law program in Australia are invited to enter the 2025 Law and Religion Essay Competition. The University of Southern Queensland School of Law and Justice invites submissions for the 2025 Law and Religion Essay Competition. All entries will be…
Associate energised by field of law
A stint as an environmental law research assistant while studying at QUT opened up a world of possibilities for newly admitted lawyer Ally Clark. The Jones Day Associate and Honours student was admitted in December 2024 to the Supreme Court of Queensland along with more than 130 new…
The most common diseases linked with voluntary assisted dying
More and more countries are legalising voluntary assisted dying. This lets a doctor, or sometimes a nurse practitioner, give life-ending medication to an eligible person who requests it. As of 2023, 282 million people lived in regions where voluntary assisted dying is legal. Jurisdictions such as the Netherlands,…
Government of Western Australia to review their Voluntary Assisted Dying system
Western Australia, the second jurisdiction to enact voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws, has undertaken its first review of its VAD system since it came into effect in July 2021. Professor Lindy Willmott, Professor Ben White and Casey Haining were engaged by the Western Australian Department of Health to…
Recognition for Professor Ben Mathews
The Australian has recently unveiled its list of the Top 250 Researchers for 2025, showcasing leaders across 250 diverse fields of study—those whose work has made a profound impact on their disciplines. Congratulations to Professor Ben Mathews, who has been recognised as the leading Australian researcher in the…
Professor Andrew Stewart joins QUT
We’re excited to announce that Andrew Stewart, currently John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, will take up a new position at QUT as Professor of Work and Regulation in early 2025. Andrew is widely recognised as Australia’s leading expert in employment law and workplace…
New Issue | Law, Technology and Humans
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 6(3) includes a collection of symposium articles from Law as Data, Data as Law. Guest editors Rónán Kennedy (University of Galway) and Brian Barry (Trinity College Dublin) provide analysis from multiple disciplinary perspectives on the latest…
Gender inequality baked into treatment of women, dementia and aged care
Dementia disproportionately affects women whether living with dementia or supporting someone living with dementia in aged care, a fact largely ignored in the final report of the Aged Care Royal Commission, an analysis by QUT health law researchers has found. Analysis of the RC into Aged Care Quality…
Models of care for voluntary assisted dying: a qualitative study of Queensland’s approach
Australian voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws are very similar, but how VAD is implemented by each state and territory can make a significant difference. Recently published research by Ben White, Amanda Ward, Rachel Feeney, Laura Ley Greaves and Lindy Willmott examines how the VAD system has been working…
The Summit of the Future: A QUT Symposium
Professor Matthew Rimmer and Dr Muhammad Zaheer Abbas from the School of Law, together with HDR student Himani Sabharwal, are among the presenters at The Summit of the Future – a QUT Symposium which will analyse The Pact for the Future, The Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration…