A new publication from legal scholars has highlighted the conflicts involved in the contemporary focus of bibliometrics in assessing researcher quality. Kieran Tranter (QUT) and Timothy Peters (UniSC) report on a study of Australian-based law researchers’ H-index and total citation counts, as recorded on Google Scholar in September…
Professor Sharon Christensen, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at QUT, has been awarded the Queensland Law Society’s highest accolade, the President’s Medal for 2025. The award recognises Professor Christensen for her outstanding contribution and commitment to the profession and in particular her significant contributions…
QUT School of Law Lecturer Dr Samuel Roach is one of six QUT educators in the fields of health, law and creative industries awarded a citation for his outstanding contribution to student learning at the recently held 2024 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) ceremony. The annual awards…
ACHLR members Dr Sam Boyle and Professor Ben Mathews have published a paper in the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy which assesses a program for young people involved in the youth justice system in Queensland. Sam and Ben worked with former ACHLR PhD student Dr…
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is currently lawful in all Australian states and will be lawful in the Australian Capital Territory from November 2025. A Report published by an Independent Expert Advisory Panel has recommended that VAD laws be introduced in the Northern Territory. VAD laws permit adults with…
End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) has launched a new FREE online training course for residential aged care, home and community care, and aged care providers. The course focuses on common legal issues in aged care at the end of life, and health professionals’ legal roles and…
Volume 5 of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion, co-edited by Associate Professor Alex Deagon of QUT Law, has now been published. The Special Topic Forum on ‘The Rise of the Nones’, which discusses the emergence of the ‘spiritual but not religious’ community in the national and…
Voluntary assisted dying is lawful in all Australian states. This allows terminally ill adults who are suffering and have decision-making capacity to choose to receive help to die. Victoria’s law was the first, coming into effect in 2019. New South Wales was the last state, with its voluntary…
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…
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,…
