Research scholarships provide funding to help students with general living costs while they focus on research studies, and the QUT Faculty of Law’s scholarship round is now open. Dr Eliana Close, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law, received scholarships from the QUT Faculty of Law to…
Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep up?
Is technology doomed to always be regulated by out-of-date rules? Or, worse, will the world become lawless as technology leaves dusty law codes behind? The recent QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar with Professor Joshua Fairfield discussed these challenges and is now available to watch online. The…
Applications now open for Higher Degree Research scholarships
QUT Law has opened their annual scholarship round for HDR scholarships. These scholarships are available to support new PhD/MPhil students interested in pursuing research in law. The Law School is uniquely placed in having legal experts available to supervise topics that involve innovative research that can make an…
Further recognition for the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been ranked by Criminology Open as the second most cited “diamond journal” in criminology internationally. Criminology Open compiles all the open access publications in this space and has started a ranking for different open access models using citation…
Physician attitudes to voluntary assisted dying
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) became legal in the Australian state of Victoria on 19 June 2019 and will be legal in Western Australia from 2021. Other Australian states are progressing similar law reform processes. In Australia and internationally, doctors are central to the operation of all legal VAD…
ACHLR launches new online seminar series: Coffee with a Colleague
The Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) has launched a new online seminar series called Coffee with a Colleague. In this series, ACHLR researchers will discuss their research and projects with key collaborators and colleagues. In the first episode (introduced by Associate Professor Tina Cockburn), Dr Eliana…
QUT Journal ranked as top Law journal in Australia
The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been ranked by Scopus as a Q1 (Quartile 1) for journal quality in the subject category, ‘LAW’ in the latest Scimago* rankings. The Journal is the only Law journal in Australia with a Q1 status – and the…
Procedural fairness in mental health review tribunals
Dr Sam Boyle and Professor Tamara Walsh from UQ conducted a study into the decision-making of the Queensland Mental Health Review Tribunal. They conducted group interviews with 36 lawyers and advocates for people with matters before the tribunal. The first paper arising from this study has just been…
New Issue: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
A new issue of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been released. This second issue for 2020 features diverse articles from scholars in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago and Australia. This international, open access journal publishes…
Face masks and the two critical public health principles at the heart of the confusion
Why are some governments and agencies willing to recommend mask use when others aren’t, and why are recommendations changing? Fiona McDonald, Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, together with Professor Claire Horwell from Durham University, has co-written an article for The Conversation UK on face…