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🔎 UniSQ Law Academic Research Seminar Join us for a presentation by Dr. Wayne Petherick 📊 Topic: Australian Victims of Serial Murder 📅 When: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (AEST) 🎯 RSVP: February 24, 2026 Register: forms.office.com/r/dVw8W3sXhXby @unisqaus

📣 New volume (Volume 6) of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion is out! ✨ 📖 You can read it at: ausjlr.com/issue-archive/ @AusJLR @unisqaus

What happens in countries where there's a constitutional right to a self-determined death, including third party assistance, but no access to pentobarbital? I discuss this in the German context👇 tinyurl.com/2rk8kptv

🎉Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 UniSQ Law and Religion Essay Competition🎉The judges were impressed with the quality of the essays received. 🏆First Place: Jacob Carson, Newcastle 🏆Second Place: Jashan Singh, QUT 🏆Third Place: Ruairi Grant, QUT @unisqaus

𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: Submission deadline for 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 for the UniSQ School of Law and Justice interdisciplinary scholarly colloquium 'Religious Hatred in Australia — Social Influences & Legal Responses' is 𝟮𝟴 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. lawfully.unisq.edu.au/call-for-paper…

UniSQ School of Law and Justice is hosting the interdisciplinary colloquium 'Religious Hatred in Australia: Social Influences & Legal Responses'. 📅 28 November 2025 📍 UniSQ Toowoomba Campus ✉️ Expression of interest for presenters by 28.8. 2025 @unisqaus #UniSQ #colloquium

Australian Journal of Law and Religion - 📣#CallForPapers 2025: • Special Issue on Accommodation of Religion (submission deadline: 30 May 2025) • General Issue (submission deadline: 30 September 2025) @AusJLR

CALL FOR ENTRIES 📣: UniSQ 2025 Law and Religion Essay Competition. 📆 Submission are due 1 June 2025, midnight AEST. More information and essay topics: lawfully.unisq.edu.au/call-for-entri… Please share. #Law #Religion #EssayCompetition #LLBStudent #JDStudent #Australia @AusJLR

Issue # 5 of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion has now been published: ausjlr.com/issue-archive/. Special Topic Forum: The Rise of the Nones (co-published with Canopy Forum) #AusJLR #LawAndReligion @AusJLR

@CrimJustJournal staffprofile.unisq.edu.au/Profile/Kersti… #GermanJusticeSystem #FemaleVictims #AbusiveIntimatePartners #NonConfrontationalCircumstances #LongTermDomesticViolence #LawReform #GenderBasedViolence #DomesticAbuse #VictimsOfAbuse #LegalReform #IntimatePartnerViolence

How can the German justice system better acknowledge the situation of female victims who kill their abusive intimate partners in non-confrontational circumstances in response to long-term domestic violence? @DrKerstinBraun discusses avenues for law reform: crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/3…

Do safe access zone laws limiting anti-abortion protests around abortion clinics comply with the human rights of protesters in Australia? @DrKerstinBraun and @sarahbutcher argue they do in the latest issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/in…

New episode of the Law and Religion Down Under Podcast: “How We Talk About Religious Freedom” (Guest: Dr Elenie Poulos). The episode focuses on the dramatic changes in Australian political discourse on religious freedom in recent years. audioboom.com/posts/8512185-…

In Australia, the public display of Nazi symbols and gestures has recently been criminalised. @DrKerstinBraun @unisqaus and @khardyGCI @GriffCrimInst talk about this here 👇 talkabout.iclrs.org/2024/05/28/cri… @iclrsorg

Out now: Reid Mortensen and @SarahMcKib, ‘Family Provision Across Borders’ (2024) 46(1) Sydney Law Review (advance) sydney.edu.au/content/dam/co… #auslaw #conflictoflaws #PrIL #privateinternationallaw @unisqaus

My article reflects on the significance of the first Convict and Lived Experience Criminology Symposium held at @UniSQLJResearch. It’s important that we continue the dialogue beyond the conference - what are you doing to privilege lived experience voices in your work? Link ⬇️

Check out this important Conversation piece: @drjoncrowe and Gianni Ribeiro, ‘Most states now have affirmative sexual consent laws, but not enough people know what they mean’, The Conversation (26 March 2024) theconversation.com/most-states-no…

Hot off the Press: Ciprian Radavoi, ‘Ante-factum Legislative General Vaccination Mandates, as a Solution to Legal Hypocrisy in Pandemics’ (2024) 16 World Medical and Health Policy (advance access) @medical_policy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Out just in time to keep you busy over the long weekend: Volume 4 of the @AusJLR: a special issue on “Theology and Jurisprudence” containing 7 research articles, including one from the world leader in the field, John Witte Jr. ausjlr.com/issue-archive/ #LawAndReligion #Theology

Out now: Guzyal Hill and Jonathan Crowe, ‘Harmonising Sexual Consent Law in Australia: Goals, Risks and Challenges’ (2024) 49 Monash University Law Review (advance access) bridges.monash.edu/articles/journ…