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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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...

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In Bradfield, the election is not yet over. What happens when a seat count is ultra close?

The 2025 election has produced some extremely close seat results. Here’s what happens when there’s just a handful of votes in play.

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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...

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Can Murray Watt fix Australia’s broken nature laws? First stop, Western Australia

Australia’s nature laws are now in even worse shape than when Labor was elected in 2022. But this is why things could be different this term.

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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...

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📢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

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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.

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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...

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Law in Non-Places: A Comment on Siva Thambisetty, ‘The Unfree Commons: Freedom of Marine Scientific Research and the Status of Genetic Resources beyond National Jurisdiction’ (2025) 88(2) MLR 300 - Th...

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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...

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Visitor Program

How to apply as a visiting academic, research student, fellow or Indigenous fellow.

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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)

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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...

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Protecting salmon farming at the expense of the environment – another step backwards for Australia’s nature laws

After shelving plans to reform Australia’s nature laws, the prime minister wants to walk back existing protections with new legislation introduced this week.

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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...

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Organised crime and corruption: Taking a modern approach to an age-old problem

Thousands of crimes – from bootlegging to murder – were committed under the reign of US organised crime boss Al Capone. Yet, the Prohibition-era gangster, who oversaw a criminal network worth an estim...

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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-...

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The Heart and Science of Aged Care: A Conversation

With panellists Professor Sarah Holland-Batt and Dr Glenda Powell OAM

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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Could a PhD in law save the environment?

When you envision studying a Doctor of Philosophy in law, you may not immediately associate it with combating climate change or saving endangered habitats. But for UQ PhD supervisor Justine Bell-James...

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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.

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

[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: buff.ly/4hvf9V8

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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...

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“The prime and fountain-power”: Law, sovereignty, and constituent power in Samuel Rutherford’s Lex, Rex (1644) - Nicholas Aroney, Simon P Kennedy, 2025

Many scholars claim that Abbé Sieyès (1748–1836) was the first to deploy the concept of a pouvoir constituant (constituent power) as the power that establishes ...

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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...

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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...

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The Concept of International Law Reform and the Case of Negotiated Settlements in Foreign Bribery Matters

Abstract. The concept of reform is present in its absence in the literature on international law-making and legal theory. The international legal system is

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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...

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Conventions All the Way Down | 4 | The Emergence of Parliamentary Conv

How do conventions emerge? What forces explain their stickiness or plasticity? Conventions are often studied in the abstract, as sets of generalised norms. This

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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...

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Hart Publishing @hartpublishing.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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

Banner showing the cover image of 'Life and Death in Private Law' and the text: A fascinating study of how life and death shape private law and conversely how private law’s engagement with life and death illustrates their meaning and value.

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UQ Law School @uqlaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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...

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Indigenous peoples’ rights should be recognized and strengthened to boost food innovation research - Nature Food

Indigenous peoples are frequently denied the right to own, control and use their traditional lands and resources. Using the example of the Burdekin plum, we explore how this undermines resource access...

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