New legal research collaboration with the University of Cambridge

Melbourne Law School is delighted to announce a new research collaboration with the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge.

The purpose of this partnership is to increase collaboration by stimulating new and exciting research relationships between the two institutions, specifically by providing funding for a series of workshops, initially one per calendar year. These workshops are to be co-organised by members of both institutions, and co-funded with an amount of up to $20,000 per workshop.

Commenting on this initiative, Professor Pip Nicholson, Dean of Melbourne Law School, said: “Melbourne Law School warmly welcomes this development to support collaboration between the excellent scholars at the Cambridge Faculty of Law and Melbourne Law School. Over the years, the links between Melbourne Law School academics and their colleagues at Cambridge have deepened. This collaborative research initiative cements our existing links and enables new and exciting research partnerships to be supported.”

Professor Mark Elliott, Chair of the Cambridge Law Faculty, said: “I am very pleased that we are in a position to announce the establishment of this collaborative endeavour with Melbourne Law School. A number of informal links already exist between Cambridge Faculty Members and their counterparts at Melbourne; we greatly look forward to reinforcing those links and to forging new ones under the auspices of this initiative.”

Further details on the research collaboration scheme will be announced internally, and joint applications by Melbourne and Cambridge faculty members for the first workshop will be invited from January 2022.