Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory

The 18th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory (DFLT-18) is an annual interdisciplinary workshop hosted by graduate researchers at Melbourne Law School. The Forum brings together graduate researchers and early career scholars from diverse backgrounds to reflect critically, methodologically, and collaboratively on law and legal theory.

We aim to foster a welcoming, supportive, and intellectually generative environment for researchers at all stages of their doctoral journeys. Whether your work is theoretical, empirical, doctrinal, historical, community-based, or practice-informed, we warmly invite you to participate.

The theme for this year’s Forum is Of Communities and Their Laws. This theme invites reflection on how laws create, govern and resist relationships between people, institutions, ideas, and communities.