TC Beirne School of Law
| TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland |
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| founding | 1910 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Brisbane , Australia |
| dean | Sarah Derrington |
| Students | 2,000 (2013) |
| Employee | 43 (university professor, 2013) |
| Website | www.law.uq.edu.au |
The TC Beirne School of Law is the law school of the University of Queensland . Founded in 1910, the TC Beirne School of Law is now one of the most prestigious law schools in Australia and worldwide. The Law School is named after its founder, Thomas Charles Beirne , and is the oldest law school in Queensland . She is part of the Faculty of Business, Economics & Law.
history
The TC Beirne School of Law began teaching in 1936, but was founded in 1910 as a "shadow faculty". During this non-active period, honorary doctorates and other honorary degrees were mainly awarded to well-known graduates from other universities, such as the honorary doctorate awarded to Samuel Griffith in 1912 . In 1920, a University of Queensland committee decided that the establishment of a law school should be postponed and an introductory law course should be set up in another school instead, preparing students for the Bar Association test.
A donation from the estate of James Garrick , a local lawyer and politician has enabled the University of Queensland set up a first Law Department in 1926. 1935 promised the owner of a large local department store, Thomas Charles Beirne , the University of 20,000 Australian pound for Establish a law faculty. The university senate named the faculty after the donor at TC Beirne School of Law. The first ever to graduate from the School of Law was Una Prentice, who graduated in 1938 and became the first woman to be admitted to the Queensland Bar. By 1939, thirty students were enrolled at the faculty - including Harry Gibbs , later Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia . In 1948, the Law School began publishing the University of Queensland Law Journal, Australia's first university law journal, and moved to the Forgan Smith Building as a new home on the St. Lucia campus.
In 2005, a University of Queensland team won the prestigious Philip C. Jessup Moot Court . Today the TC Beirne School of Law has over 2,000 students and is home to the Walter Harrison Law Library (the largest legal library in Queensland), the Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court (a reconstructed courtroom with the original furnishings of the Supreme Court of Queensland , which is for real and practical training is used by students) and computer and group work rooms available 24/7 . The courses on offer range from the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) , the Master of Laws (LL.M.) and the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) to doctoral degrees such as Ph.D. and Doctor of Laws (LLD) programs.
Personalities
The TC Beirne School of Law has produced numerous legal scholars of great importance for Queensland , Australia and worldwide. These include:
- Quentin Bryce (born 1942 ), Governor General of Australia
- Harry Gibbs ( 1917 - 1995 ), Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Paul de Jersey (born 1948 ), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Margaret White (* 1943 ), the first woman judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland was appointed
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c TC Beirne School of Law: Heritage and History. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: law.uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Topuniversities: QS World University Rankings by Subjetc 2013 - Law. On: topuniversities.com. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
- ^ TC Beirne School of Law: Heritage and History. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: law.uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ↑ International Law Students Association: Jessup Archives. On: ilsa.org. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ TC Beirne School of Law: The Student Body. On: law.uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ TC Beirne School of Law: Facilities. ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: law.uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ TC Beirne School of Law: Law Students. On: law.uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
