News and events
News | Events
Finding a home for Orphan Works
The Communications Law Centre at UTS welcomed the public and a team of panellists to the launch of the orphan works discussion paper on the evening of 3 May 2012.
UTS professor to head Australian Copyright Council
The Director of UTS's Communications Law Centre, Professor Michael Fraser, has been elected the new Chairman of the Australian Copyright Council.
The Council is an independent non-profit organisation, partly funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, with a mission to advance the arts and creative industries in Australia by promoting the value of copyright.
Academic excellence shines at UTS:Law Awards 2012
On a typically brisk late April autumn evening, UTS:Law played host to a record 300 guests gathered to recognise the Faculty’s highest academic achievers and scholarship winners, and celebrate excellence in its active mooting, mentoring and internal legal competition programs.
Youth Reporter will join the Child Rights Taskforce in Geneva
UTS law student Janani Muhunthan has been selected to join the Child Rights Taskforce in Geneva as their Youth Reporter in June 2012.
A milestone for free access to law - the 500th AustLII database
On Tuesday 1 May the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) will mark a significant milestone for the free access to law movement when it makes available on its website the 500th database of public legal information.
Return to Your Roots - UTS:Law Inaugural Alumni Reunion
On the warm early autumn evening of the 22nd March 2012, UTS:Law threw open its doors to welcome back its alumni for its first official Alumni Reunion.
Michael Kirby lifts the purple curtain
“Every day I’d have a new novel which was an appeal book. Stories of love, hate, cruelty, passion, envy, money, and corruption,” remarked former Justice Kirby, “Our whole life is listening to stories of a case and the solution to the story. We have a chance to play a part in that.”
The Use of Subject Matter with Missing Owners - Australian Copyright Policy Options
A discussion paper by David Brennan and Michael Fraser which puts forward two copyright reform options to address the 'orphan works' problem.
UTS to partner Leadbolt on mobile commerce standard
The Communications Law Centre (CLC) at the University of Technology Sydney and leading web and mobile advertising company Leadbolt have announced today the formation of a research partnership to develop a mobile commerce standard.
UTS Dean of Law appointed to head copyright inquiry
Dean of the UTS Faculty of Law Professor Jill McKeough has been appointed by the Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon as Commissioner in charge of the Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) Inquiry into Copyright Law.
Change towards an anti-discrimination nation
As the Federal Government sought public comment on the consolidation of anti-discrimination laws, timely discussions were being generated at ‘Discrimination in Modern Australia’, the second UTS Law Students’ Society Speaker Series event of the year titled.
An evening of opera welcomes new UTS:Law Equity Scholarship Endowment Fund
Hosted under the iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House, harbour views, modern opera and a delectable menu were highlights of the annual the UTS:Law Equity Scholarship program fundraising event.
Subject to change: law and your career
Attended by representatives from the cross section of the legal field- Government and not-for-profit organisations, corporate and family lawyers, financial services and management consultants – the networking event gave students a great opportunity to gain practical tips and advice from industry professionals.
Shenzhen, en garde! UTS JD Student to represent Australia at World University Games
UTS Juris Doctor Student, Cheryl Chan has been selected to represent Australia and UTS at the upcoming World University Games.
Kevin Lindgren QC: Ethics in legal practice, a balancing act on the high wire
In a world where much emphasis is placed on corporations, the markets and transactions, issues of legal ethics beyond the buck are often neglected.
Generation next
What do asylum seekers, offensive language, healthcare and climate change have in common? They're four of the areas under examination by the first-ever Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral scholars.
The first Legal Rite of Passage
With bright eyes and eager attitudes, UTS:Law’s newest recruits filed into the Law Building in the last week of February to begin the next phase of their academic lives.
Haymarket Campus Refurbishment
The refurbishments aim to improve campus public spaces at Haymarket, in the hopes of creating new flexible environments, informal learning spaces, group collaboration and social hubs.
Smart regulation: the must-have telecommunications accessory
The Australian telecommunications industry needs fewer rules but more principles to deal fairly with its customers according to a new report by the UTS Communications Law Centre (CLC).
Trafficking a blissfully innocent crime: Anti-Slavery forum finds
Human trafficking is active in Australia – and may well be happening in your local neighbourhood.
Public good V private profit
The human body is comprised of 20 000 genes, 20 per cent of which are owned by biotech companies. As the international uproar over gene patenting grows louder, Natalie Stoianoff argues the solution lies not in changes to the law, but in rethinking Australia’s medical system.
Spill your secrets, it's legal
In an age of friendships born through a single click, we now have the freedom to broadcast our every droll, witty thought (or lack thereof) online to social networks spanning Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the latest online media arrival, FourSquare.
The case for compensation
Internationally, over 12 million people are in forced labour and 2.45 million have been trafficked across borders. In Australia, victims of slavery and trafficking are entitled to compensation, yet few know their rights.
New Equity Scholarship: Helping students reach the high note
Black ties, fine wine and a high note of opera - it was a grand fundraising dinner hosted by UTS:Law.
Breaking the legal mould
Super-fast and super-connected. That is the Labor Government’s vision for the National Broadband Network (NBN) to be rolled out across the country, at a cost of $43 billion, over eight years.
AustLII wins best openness initiative
.auDA and InternetNZ, the Internet domain name administrators for Australia and New Zealand, announced today the inaugural winners of the Australia and New Zealand Internet Best
Practice Awards.
Tax break
The Australian tax system is complex. John Taggart and Elaine Xu, reveal how an online video, designed to help students understand basic income tax, is helping local and international students succeed.
2010 Law Awards Ceremony
The 2010 Faculty of Law Awards Ceremony recognises and celebrates the achievements of the top students from the 2009 academic year.
Digital age demands a revolution in copyright regulation
Australia must adopt the infrastructure to enable a national content network and lead reform in the management and regulation of online digital creative content, Director of the UTS Communications Law Centre Prof Michael Fraser has said.
A Firm Step Ahead
Kirsty Watkins, a final year Law and International Studies student, considers herself lucky. She has been offered a graduate position at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and is yet to complete her degree...
UTS: Law Orientation 2010 - What we did this summer...
Over 400 students descended upon UTS: Law over the two days of Orientation – making 2010 the biggest ever Orientation in Faculty history.
Laws of survival
Wenee Yap is not one to sit idly by. An Orientation Coordinator and journalist in the Faculty of Law, she is also a 2009 Communication/Law graduate and the founder of Survive Law – a project aimed at tackling the high rate of depression among law students.
A new voice in protecting freedom of expression
Australia's only independent centre representing the public interest in the media and communications industries is being launched early next month by UTS.
Study gives insight on handling student complaints
Universities have a new resource for developing more effective student grievance and discipline processes at the end of a nationwide study by legal academics from three NSW universities, including UTS.
ALRC internship now part of Community Justice Studies
Work with senior academics and members of the law profession, as well as learn about law reform, its value and the processes involved.
UTS winner of Sir Harry Gibbs Moot 2009
Eight weeks of preparation. Four moot team members, some seasoned, some fresh. Four intense days of competition. Six rounds, one winner - this is the UTS Gibbs Moot 2009.
Dinner, drinks & murder most foul
Dinner, drinks and a side of murder most foul marked the 2009 Perspectives on Law Dinner, an annual event hosted by the UTS Law Student Society and the UTS Faculty of Law.
Following your heart's desire: Anny Slater Woman Lawyer of the Year in Private Practice
Taking the risk to go after your heart's desire is no small feat. Dorothy was knocked around in a cyclone, propelled into the Land of Oz and thrust back out again; realising that she only had to look in her own backyard for what she truly loved.
India's battle over cheap medicine for the masses
From third-world copycat to wealthy R&D drug development hub, the rise of India's pharmaceutical industry reveals an unlikely story in the economic ascendancy of developing nations.
UTS: Law Alumni Honoured at UTS:ALUMNI Awards
Across the globe, around 140,000 UTS alumni can be found working in a vast range of professions - from government, private business and the community sector.
"Now I have freedom": The Anti-Slavery Project
A client of the Anti-Slavery Project visited their office to collect a letter from the Department of Immigration informing her that she had been granted permanent residence in Australia. She took the letter and she said "Now I have freedom".
Michael Kirby: Twitter is "the voice of freedom"
The Honourable Michael Kirby used his role as a keynote speaker at the UTS: Law Spring Graduations to promote the role of new technologies in mobilising support for human rights causes.
Digital revolution overshadows parallel import controversy, says bookshop CEO
CEO and Director of the Melbourne University Bookshop, Graeme Connelly, declared the controversy over allowing parallel imports of books into Australia...
How to be an insufferable law school know-it-all...without really trying.
It's Week 1. What you thought would be an ease-in introduction to studying law has turned into a whirlwind of lectures, imminent deadlines, and frenzied textbook-buying, culminating in an impossibly high pile of readings, all due yesterday.
Hamburg Law Student wins UTS:Law LLM Scholarship
"I am convinced that life is what you make it," said Annika Guhse, UTS:Law's latest LLM Scholarship winner for continuing LLM students.
The GFC - Global Financial Crisis or Great For Change?
The GFC tag has attracted many meanings in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis but the resounding message from the UTS Faculty of Law Forum 'Surviving the Downturn: Planning for the Recovery' is that this time is Great For Change in the legal profession.
Reforms protecting slaves in Australia a welcome change
Members of the Anti-Slavery Project have welcomed the Australian Government's announcement today of major reforms to visas that are available for victims of trafficking and slavery.
On the brink
In 50 years, our overcrowded planet will struggle to support an extra two billion people. As debate rages over what we can do to ensure a sustainable future, five UTS experts offer a glimpse of what life might be like.
Protecting public interest
Lesley Hitchens looks at how the Federal Government’s planned national broadband network raises broader issues about the future role of the media and the public’s access to information they can trust.
