News and Events Archive

News | Events

2009 UTS: Law Mooting Teams announced...

23 Sep 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 2009

Day 3 of the Australian High Tech Crime Conference

Bugs, Botnets and Black Hats

30 Jun 2009

Day 2 of the Australian High Tech Crime Conference

Turning the Tables on Cybercrime

30 Jun 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

03 Jun 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

03 Jun 2009

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

Obama trumps Bush in US Climate Change policy

03 Jun 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...

03 Jun 2009

Congratulations to the following students...

Bodies of Mind?

15 May 2009

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

Nothing arbitrary about these UTS: Law successes!

15 May 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

08 May 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?

06 Apr 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

02 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 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

02 Mar 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.

02 Mar 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

05 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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

09 Jan 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."

Conscience: Do lawyers need one?

22 Dec 2008

Thane Rosenbaum, a novelist, essayist and law professor, said that "legal ethics is a misnomer... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally." If something is legal, then does it follow that it is right? Or is moral integrity a further threshold that one must go through after determining that something is 'legal'?

Surrogacy - a legal minefield

22 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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.'