TC Beirne School of Law
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The TC Beirne School of Law is the Law Faculty of the University of Queensland. Founded in 1910, the TC Beirne School of Law is one of the most prestigious law faculties in Australia and worldwide. The Law School is named after your founder, Thomas Charles Beirne and the oldest Law School in Queensland. It is part of the Faculty of Business, Economics & Law.
History
The TC Beirne School of Law took on their teaching in 1936, but was founded in 1910 as a "shadow Faculty ". In this non- active time honorary degrees and other honorary titles were on the law school mainly awarded to well-known graduates of other universities, such as the 1912 loaned to Samuel Griffith an honorary doctorate. 1920 chose a Committee of the University of Queensland that the establishment of a law school should be first placed and instead set up at another faculty an introductory course in jurisprudence and students should prepare for the test of the Bar Association.
A donation from the estate of James Garrick, a local lawyer and politician allowed the University of Queensland to establish a first Law Department in the year 1926. 1935 promised the owners of a large local department store, Thomas Charles Beirne, University 20,000 Australian pounds for the to provide establishment of a Faculty of Law are available. The Senate of the University named the Faculty by the donor in TC Beirne School of Law. The first graduate of the School of Law was Una Prentice, who graduated in 1938 and was admitted as the first woman to Queensland bar. 1939 thirty students were already enrolled at the faculty - including Harry Gibbs, later Chief Judge ( Chief Justice ) of the High Court of Australia. In 1948, the Faculty began the publication of the University of Queensland Law Journal, the first university law journal in Australia and moved into the Forgan Smith Building a new home on the St Lucia campus.
2005 won by a team from the University of Queensland 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 Law Library of Queensland ), the Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court ( nachgebauter a courtroom with the original equipment of the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is used for reality- and hands-on training of students ) and 24/7 available computer and group study rooms. The range of programs ranging from Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ), Master of Laws ( LL.M.) and Master of Philosophy ( MPhil ) to doctoral degrees, such as Ph.D. - and a Doctor of Laws ( LLD) programs.
Famous people
The TC Beirne School of Law has spawned in your history numerous, Queensland, Australia and globally significant legal scholars. Among others, these include:
- Quentin Bryce ( b. 1942 ), Governor-General of Australia
- Harry Gibbs (1917-1995), Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Paul de Jersey ( b. 1948 ), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Margaret White ( b. 1943 ), the first woman to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland