Unisq School of Law and Justice Research

🔎 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 Required by February 24, 2026
Register: https://forms.office.com/r/dVw8W3sXhXby

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

🎉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

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. https://lawfully.unisq.edu.au/call-for-papers-religious-hatred-in-australia-social-influences-legal-responses/

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

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

CALL FOR ENTRIES 📣: UniSQ 2025 Law and Religion Essay Competition.
📆 Submission are due 1 June 2025, midnight AEST.
More information and essay topics: https://lawfully.unisq.edu.au/call-for-entries-2025-law-and-religion-essay-competition/
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Issue # 5 of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion has now been published: https://ausjlr.com/issue-archive/. Special Topic Forum: The Rise of the Nones (co-published with Canopy Forum)

Issue Archive - Australian Journal of Law and Religion All issues of the AJLR are available as PDFs for free download under the terms of Gold Open Access. This means they can downloaded and…

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? discusses avenues for law reform: https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/3571

Do safe access zone laws limiting anti-abortion protests around abortion clinics comply with the human rights of protesters in Australia? and argue they do in the latest issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.T2024070200002691098681049

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. https://audioboom.com/posts/8512185-how-we-talk-about-religious-freedom-guest-dr-elenie-poulos