Inaugural AALTRA Prize 2022
Inaugural AALTRA Australian Animal Law Research PrizeThe Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association Inc (AALTRA) Australian Animal Law Research Prize will be awarded for the most outstanding contribution to the field of animal law by an Australasian scholar/student (whether by residence or birth) or whose work has a focus on these jurisdictions.Inaugural AALTRA Australian Animal Law Research Prize 2022
Digital Campaigning And Political Finance In The Asia And The Pacific Region
The report studies the intersection between digital campaigning in elections, and political finance and its regulation in Asia and the Pacific region.
Climate Change Law and Mitigation
Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law researchers have been investigating the potential impact of the global greenhouse gas mitigation scheme, Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), on indigenous and local community rights. This project has involved fieldwork in REDD+ recipient countries as well as with international organisations (the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)) and civil society groups.
Laws and the Humanities for the Anthropocene Reading Group
This is an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional reading group, focused on encounters between laws and cognate disciplines in the context of the Anthropocene thesis. Hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Boyd van Dijk
Academic profile of Dr Boyd van Dijk, Melbourne Law School
Researching public law: a panel discussion on legal method
This CCCS Global Public Law Seminar addressed the issue of method, and feature leading scholars who have contributed to the important forthcoming book, Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems (Edward Elgar). This collection, edited by Professors Paul Daly and Joe Tomlinson, is the first to offer a systematic treatment of public law methods in common law systems. Our international panel of leading public lawyers reflected on the issue of legal method, with a specific focus on doctrinal method and legal reason, Indigenous approaches, and comparative law.In this seminar, our panellists critically reflected upon the development of the constitutional freedom over the last 30 years and shared their thoughts in relation to its future. The panel consisted of barrister Kathleen Foley S.C., Professor Dan Meagher (Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University) and Professor Adrienne Stone (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne). Professor Michael Crommelin AO (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne) chaired the event.
Robert Burrell
Academic profile of Professor Robert Burrell, Melbourne Law School
As the Tokyo Games begin, the stakes could not be higher for Japan — and the Olympics themselves
Engage
Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness offers an online intensive course, engages with a network of graduate researchers and publishes an online journal.
Call for Paper: Environmental Law Doctoral Researchers' Workshop 2022
Call for PaperMelbourne Law School’s Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL) and UNSW Sydney’s Faculty of Law & Justice are delighted to invite abstracts for papers to be presented virtually at the Environmental Law Doctoral Researchers’ Workshop 5-6 July 2022.Call for Papers: Environmental Law Doctoral Researchers' Workshop
Adil Hasan Khan
Academic profile of Dr Adil Hasan Khan, Melbourne Law School
Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law
The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations aims to contribute to the development of labour and employment law throughout Australia and the world.
Undergraduate Law - Breadth
Find out about Competition Law study options in Undergraduate degrees
Can Robots Really be Companions for Older Adults?
Dr Simon Coghlan and Dr Jenny Waycott discuss the perspectives of elderly people on the use of social robots to combat social isolation in their community.
Bougainville referendum and beyond
In 2019 the National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea and the Constitutional Transformation Network prepared two studies to inform leaders in Bougainville and PNG on the future governance of Bougainville.
Marie Bismark
Academic profile of Senior Fellow Dr Marie Bismark, Melbourne Law School
Primary Sources
Australia's Declarations submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Major Research Projects
View current and past major research projects conducted by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School.
Publications
The Laureate Visiting Fellowships in Constitutional Law offers outstanding female doctoral and female early career researchers the opportunity to participate in an intensive mentoring program relative to the Laureate Program with Professor Adrienne Stone, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow, for up to two months; and includes involvement in events, workshops, and conferences.
Creating New Codes: How can art explore digital ethics?
As part of Melbourne Design Week, CAIDE's Art, AI and Digital Ethics research stream present Creating New Codes: How can art explore digital ethics?
News and Events
Electoral Regulation Research Network current and past news and events
Choice blasts Airbnb for using ‘secretive algorithm’ that judges if users are ‘trustworthy’
Professor Jeannie Paterson and Dr Marc Cheong spoke to The New Daily about Choice findings that Airbnb is using an algorithm to decide the trustworthiness of its users.
