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UTS makes strong debut in Oxford law moot

12 Aprn 2012

A team from UTS has come close to taking out this year's International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot at Oxford University in what was a first appearance by an Australian university.

UTS's team of Andrew Berriman, James Chin, Briony Daley-Whitworth and Silas Morrison reached the finals from a starting field of more than 50 law schools from around the world, including City University London and New York Law School.

A law unto himself

5 Aprn 2012

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) loss is UTS’s gain with the appointment of Murray Green as Research Associate in the UTS Communications Law Centre (CLC).

A judicious match

9 Novn 2011

Last year, law and international studies student Michael Munk found himself paired with Australian former high court justice and human rights advocate the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG.

A world of achievement at the UTS Alumni Awards

7 Novn 2011

UTS graduates were honoured for their achievements in business, the arts and science, along with service to the community both in Australia and internationally, at the 2011 UTS Alumni Awards.

Food for thought: Mental Health Breakfast Forum calls for attitude change

7 Novn 2011

When promising young lawyer and part-time comedian, Tristan Jepson, took his own life, the legal profession was reminded of a bare and seemingly universal truth: depression does not discriminate.

UTS opens the door wider for Open Day 2011

21 Sepn 2011

There's a lot packed into UTS Open Day and this year it's spilling out into the streets.

Offensive language impresses in 3 Minute Thesis final

19 Sepn 2011

Law student Elyse Methven triumphed at the UTS 3 Minute Thesis final last week with a presentation on offensive language crimes.  

Seizing the opportunity

5 Augn 2011

Lecturer Laurie Berg’s commitment to inclusion shines through in her language. The words engage, engaging and engagement permeate the conversation as she talks about her current project: broadening student participation in the Faculty of Law’s research culture.

Outstanding award for an outstanding student

15 Junn 2011

The $10,000 Law Alumni Foundation Outstanding Achievement Scholarship was made possible by a generous grant from the UTS Law Alumni Foundation. It aims to award students who have excelled academically and have taken initiative on personal or professional life.

UTS:Law students win Asia Australia Endeavour Award

4 Mayn 2011

UTS:Law third year student Douglas McDonald was recently awarded the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Undergraduate Award. While research students Vianello and Myra Cheng were awarded Endeavour Research Fellowships. These awards are highly competitive and sought after internationally.

Seeking justice

5 Aprn 2011

Nasima Rahmani is a fighter. A law graduate and Afghani human rights defender, she has survived displacement from her birth province by Soviet Union troops, five years of oppressive Taliban rule, and most recently, the US-led war in her home country.

Socialise, relax, study & your new space awaits

31 Marn 2011

Haymarket's new look, upgraded spaces are now officially open!

Sir Gerard Brennan: Measuring Freedom with the Law

22 Marn 2011

Former Chief Justice of the High Court, Sir Gerard Brennan, officially launched the Brennan Justice Leadership Program at the first UTS Law Students' Society Speaker's Series Reflections on Justice Seminar.

Professor Michael Fraser AM named new ACCAN Chairperson

15 Decn 2010

Professor Michael Fraser AM, Director of the Communications Law Centre (CLC) at UTS, has been named as the new Chair of the Australian Comunications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) Board following a meeting held in ACCAN's Sydney office on 9 December.

Campaign draws community attention to human trafficking

7 Decn 2010

A campaign to focus community attention on human trafficking and slavery is being launched by the University of Technology Sydney’s Anti-Slavery Project this week.

Graduate goes a long way to found law scholarship

30 Novn 2010

If Michael Whitbread thought he had lapses in motivation studying for his law degree he's making up for it now.

Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Scholarships Boost Research at UTS:Law

19 Octn 2010

Australia's first female Governor-General Quentin Bryce has lent her name to the newly established doctoral scholarships to be offered by the UTS Faculty of Law from 2011.

Peer Mentoring Programs ease transition into Law School

9 Sepn 2010

Law students- from school leavers to Juris Doctor - are known to burn the candle at both ends as they try to juggle studies, work and a social life. This is why UTS:Law has launched the First Year Peer Mentoring Program in addition to three other new programs aimed at international students and high achievers.

Major UTS: Law Research Project Puts IVF Law Under the Microscope

19 Augn 2010

Thirty-two years following the birth of the world’s first IVF baby, the ethical debate surrounding the use of embryos by parents pursuing IVF continues. All About the Embryo is a new study hoping to find answers to those issues and to provide recommendations for legal change.

Shanghai World Expo – Visit of Australian Law Deans July 2010

2 Augn 2010

The Dean, Professor Jill McKeough visited Shanghai in July 2010 as part of a delegation of Australian law deans.

UTS Law student shines light on issue of youth and cancer

14 Juln 2010

Chris Boyd, a twenty-one-year old law and international studies student at UTS is at the forefront of an exciting new charity, following his recent recovery from sinus cancer.

To improve is to change, Juris Doctor students waste no time

9 Junn 2010

The Juris Doctor (JD) is a graduate entry law degree, and is a postgraduate qualification recognised internationally. It is the only postgraduate law degree in Sydney which incorporates Practical Legal Training (PLT) into the program...

Unveiling hope

31 Mayn 2010

Inspiring and brave is how Arezo Malakooti describes many of the women she met in Afghanistan. And like these women, she too hopes to break through veiled barriers.

Breaking new ground: Postdoctoral Fellowship a first for the Faculty of Law

11 Mayn 2010

Dr Karen O'Connell has been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious UTS Chancellors' Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2010 the Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme attracted 90 quality applicants with outstanding track records from around the world with only eight fellowships in total offered.

Success at the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

10 Mayn 2010

In the week before Easter, the UTS Faculty of Law participated in the 17th Annual Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.

Communications Law Centre now 'all systems go'

12 Marn 2010

Senator Stephen Conroy officially launches Communications Law Centre to a 'who's who' of Australian media and law

Huckerby scoops top alumni award in China

8 Marn 2010

The inaugural Australia China Alumni Awards were held recently in Beijing, recognising the most outstanding Australian alumni in China. UTS Law alum Martyn Huckerby...

New Estate Planning subject for financial planners

14 Decn 2009

Are you a financial planner? Looking to improve your understanding of estate planning theory and practice?

2009 UTS: Law Mooting Teams announced...

23 Sepn 2009

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to represent UTS: Law following two mooting competitions in 2009.

Bringing law to life wins 2009 LexisNexis/ALTA Award

31 Juln 2009

Podcasts, vodcasts and a bilingual textbook - it's all in a day's work for up-and-coming UTS: Law lecturers Sophie Riley and Grace Li.

Silver-lining: Katerina Surkova named UTS Law LLM Scholarship winner

29 Juln 2009

Czech student Katerina Surkova has won an LLM scholarship worth $2,500 from the UTS Faculty of Law. The first of its kind to be offered at UTS, the scholarship is fully sponsored by UTS: Law and is awarded every semester.

UTS: Law hosts 2nd Anti-Slavery Project Labour Trafficking Forum

21 Juln 2009

Advocacy groups, NGOs, government, unions and academics united to address the critical issue of labour trafficking at the second annual Anti-Slavery Project Trafficking Forum...

The Age of the Cyber Warrior

30 Junn 2009

Day 3 of the Australian High Tech Crime Conference

Bugs, Botnets and Black Hats

30 Junn 2009

Day 2 of the Australian High Tech Crime Conference

Turning the Tables on Cybercrime

30 Junn 2009

Day 1 of the Australian High Tech Crime Conference sheds light on a US$100bn underground economy

The Australian High Tech Crime Conference: As cybercrime gets organised, so does law enforcement

3 Junn 2009

British broadcaster BBC made headlines in March of this year when it successfully hacked into 22,000 computers as part of a TV tech show expose of the insidious nature of cybercrime.

Justice Sackville calls for further study of ethics

3 Junn 2009

UTS: Law Adjunct Professor Justice Ron Sackville on judicial ethics under scrutiny

Obama trumps Bush in US Climate Change policy

3 Junn 2009

In the wake of the 2008 US election, visiting University of Arizona Professor Mona L. Hymel considers the legacy of former President Bush against his successor's climate change promises

2009 UTS: Law Shine Roche McGown Torts Mooting Team announced...

3 Junn 2009

Congratulations to the following students...

Bodies of Mind?

15 Mayn 2009

An historical perspective on evidence & proof in claims of mental incapacity.      

Nothing arbitrary about these UTS: Law successes!

15 Mayn 2009

We are used to hearing about the success of UTS: Law student mooters, but how does that success translate once the mooters enter legal practice?

UTS: Law Awards Night - The Gathering of the UTS: Law Extended Family

8 Mayn 2009

The celebration of staff excellence, faculty progress and student achievement was attended by the legal professionals, UTS: Law Alumni and industry bodies.

Good Faith: What is it anyway?

6 Aprn 2009

Good faith is a legal concept attracting increased interest following a slew of corporate scandals...

The myth of Terra Nullius & the absence of indigenous law in legal education

2 Aprn 2009

Australia's most famous example is the myth of terra nullius - a Latin expression meaning 'land belonging to no one'...

UTS: Law named top in its field for the 3rd year in a row

11 Marn 2009

For the third year in a row, UTS: Law has been singled out for its excellence in teaching and learning by Federal Minister for Education, Julia Gillard.

'I should not have to adopt my own child'.

10 Marn 2009

Professor Nancy Polikoff, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, still recalls the time when US Family Law hit its tipping point and changed forever.

2009 Law Orientation Days - Photo Diary

2 Marn 2009

Welcome to Law School. Have a UTS: Law USB. Fill it with colour coded class timetables and carefully annotated, underlined and formatted notes in Week 1, LSS pub crawl invitations in Week 2, photos from your summer break in Week 3...

Same/Same, Gay/Straight.

2 Marn 2009

Marriage has come in from the cold, and out of the closet. While marriage rates steadily decline and divorce statistics continue to climb, the gay rights movement has found itself...

Where were the Tuna Watchers? The Past and Future of Litigation between Australia and Japan

5 Febn 2009

January 8th, 2008. In the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean, Australian customs patrol ship MV Oceanic Viking is under orders to collect photographic and video evidence of Japanese whaling vessels for possible use in an international court challenge against Japan.

Reforming the Dilettante Lawyer

27 Jann 2009

Professor Fraser is one of several formidable legal talents to join UTS: Law as an academic in 2009. He leaves in his wake 21 years at the helm of the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).

Eat Me! How to Save Yourself from the Myth of Being Supergirl/boy.

20 Jann 2009

Stop. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing. Checking emails, procrastinating study, planning your summer break, worrying over your diminishing career prospects...

The 2009 Corporate Law Teachers Annual Conference explores the ticking bomb beneath our global financial markets

9 Jann 2009

In 2002, iconic investor Warren Buffet made a prophetic observation about derivatives and the instability of the burgeoning world markets. He describe derivatives, an ill-defined but much hyped financial instrument, as "financial weapons of mass destruction."

Surrogacy - a legal minefield

22 Decn 2008

Ensuring the child's best interest in custody battles is complicated enough. Will mum still be mum? Or is it now step-mum who is mum? And no matter what the law recognises, who are the true parents of adopted children? If these questions are difficult, try one more - Surrogacy - a legal minefield unto itself.

Sue the Educators: Why disgruntled university students are turning to the courts

22 Decn 2008

Self-represented, legally naive university students are increasingly choosing to litigate tertiary institutions, alleging discrimination, appealing against fail grades, findings of academic misconduct and even breaches of the Trade Practices Act.

Major new funding to fight human-trafficking in Australia

22 Decn 2008

The Federal Government has given a major new grant to the Anti-Slavery Project of $250,000 to raise awareness about people trafficking in Australia.

The Recent PRC Telco Reform and its Implications to the PRC Telco Market

22 Decn 2008

With over 253 million internet users, 530 million mobile phone subscribers, and an expected total of 976 million combined mobile and fixed-line phone users by the end of 2008, China's telecommunications industry is a force to be reckoned with.

UTS: Law graduate Katie Price Hague - bound after winning prestigious internship

22 Decn 2008

Yelping and jumping up and down is not behaviour you generally expect to find in the sleek offices of Sydney law firm, Gilbert + Tobin. However, for UTS:LAW graduate Katie Price, it was simply the only reasonable response when she found out she was the latest to join the select ranks as an intern for The Hague Conference on Private International Law.

When biological gold is struck, who gets a cut?

22 Decn 2008

From miracle drugs to herbicides and sunscreen, our world is awash with products that owe their existence to the hidden work of the foraging bioprospector - a hunter of biological samples plucked from the jungles of South America or the desert wastes of inland Australia, which might be put to medicinal, scientific or commercial use.

Students without borders: UTS: Law hosts exchange program for Santa Clara University and Widener University

22 Decn 2008

Now in its sixth year running, UTS: Law once again plays host to summer school exchange students via programs with Santa Clara University and Widener University.

Visual Surveillance and Identification Evidence: Facial mapping in criminal cases

22 Decn 2008

"It's him. I'm sure it's him." The act of identifying a criminal is loaded moment. Convictions can live and die by the positive identification by witnesses, police officers or, with the advent of an entrenched proliferation of city-wide CCTV networks, an emerging class of 'facial mapping experts.'

The New Takeover Regulations in China

22 Decn 2008

As of September 2006, China slipped off the last vestige of centrally-based state control of its economy. It happened quietly, without breaking headlines, perhaps because to many economic observers it already seemed like a foregone conclusion.

Go West, Young China: Exploring China's Experiments with US Corporate Culture

22 Decn 2008

China, early 1980s. The tumult of the Cultural Revolution still lingers. Socialism with 'Chinese characteristics' has come to the fore, a policy that will pave the way for rapid liberalisation and modernization of the economy.

Bigger Picture Darwinism: How one woman judge in China is changing the lives of criminal teens.

22 Decn 2008

Survival of the fittest. Expel the weak, wayside-fallen criminal delinquents for the overall good of society. Though Social Darwinism has long been disproved, its harsh reasoning can be seen to underpin the juvenile justice system of the People’s Republic of China...

Agree to Disagree: Regulatory Hesitation in the EU and US

22 Decn 2008

As global markets converge, the grand arena of competition law seems set for a clash of political, economic and regulatory ideologies. In the left corner, poised, trim and ready to regulate the slightest whiff of monopolistic behaviour out of existence, is the European Union, offering its highly-interventionist policy of 'gentlemanly competition.'

Events

Law Postgraduate Info Evening

18 April 2012

Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, International Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Studies, Intellectual Property, Australian Law, Practical Legal Training.

2012 Law Awards Ceremony

17 April 2012

Careers Advisers Day

22 March 2012

UTS: Careers Fair

22 March 2012

UTS Info Day 2012

4 January 2012

Law Postgraduate Info Session (Lunchtime)

7 December 2011

Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, International Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Studies, Intellectual Property, Australian Law, Practical Legal Training.

Law Postgraduate Info Evening

16 November 2011

Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, International Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Studies, Intellectual Property, Australian Law, Practical Legal Training.

Law Postgraduate Info Evening

27 October 2011

Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, International Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Studies, Intellectual Property, Australian Law, Practical Legal Training.

UTS: Law Electives Fair

25 October 2011

Law Postgraduate Info Evening

27 September 2011

Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, International Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Studies, Intellectual Property, Australian Law, Practical Legal Training.

UTS Open Day

27 August 2011

UTS Careers Fair 2011

11 April 2011

Linklaters' Presentation

15 March 2011

UTS Info Day 2011

5 January 2011

Communications Policy & Research Forum 2010

15 November 2010 to 16 November 2010

Annual John Marsden Lecture

9 November 2010

Electives Fair

26 October 2010

For LLB, Combined UG Law, LLM and JD students.

LSS Law Ball 2010

15 October 2010

Exam Preparation Workshop

14 October 2010

Exam Preparation Workshop

13 October 2010

Exam Preparation Workshop

11 October 2010

2010 National Indigenous Legal Conference

1 October 2010 to 2 October 2010

NSW Bar Association Open Day

20 September 2010

Opera Fundraising Dinner

14 September 2010

International Students’ Peer Mentoring Sessions

10 September 2010 to 15 October 2010

Australian High Tech Crime Conference 2010

7 September 2010 to 9 September 2010

Mooting Information Evening

1 September 2010

UTS Open Day 2010

28 August 2010

Law Postgraduate Lunchtime Information Session

29 June 2010

Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, International Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Studies, Intellectual Property, Australian Law, Practical Legal Training.

Law Week 2010

17 May 2010 to 22 May 2010

2010 Law Awards Ceremony

28 April 2010

Hong Kong Law Fair

22 April 2010

Expert Witness

1 April 2010

UTS Advisory Day 2010

5 January 2010

Summer session commences

30 November 2009

Summer Enrolments Open

12 October 2009

A Career at the Bar Open Day

28 September 2009

Endnote for Law - Workshop

17 September 2009

UTS Information Day

29 August 2009

2009 Law Awards Ceremony

22 April 2009

UTS:LAW Orientation

20 February 2009 to 21 February 2009

Advisory Day - 6 Jan

6 January 2009

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