The Australian Centre for Military Law and Justice, set up on 1 January 2008 is one of only two Centres in an Australian university which is focused on military law.

Military law is not a discrete area of law. Criminal law, administrative law, constitutional law and international law all have a place in military law. Military law comprises these and other branches of law applied in a military context. The military context, however, is influenced by the origins of law relating to defence which is sourced to the prerogative power to defend the realm.

The ANU Centre has been created to develop a research capability into military law. The research work of the Centre will complement the postgraduate teaching program for Defence lawyers, the contract for which was won by the ANU in 2005. The teaching program has been running since 2006 and is conducted by an enthusiastic team of ANU law teachers, in conjunction with Defence’s Military Law Centre, Randwick. Students in that program graduate with either a Masters in Military Law or a Masters in Law.

NEWS & EVENTS

PUBLIC SEMINAR
Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
Speaker: Mr Kevin Heller, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Friday 30 October 2009
2.30 - 3.30pm
Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law (Bldg 5) Fellows Rd, The Australian National Univeristy
Audio Link mp3

Don Rothwell
Courts martial the answer to defence dilemma (ANU News)

Simon Bronitt and Mark Nolan
Our sights must be set on justice
(The Age)

CMLJ Newsletter Jan 09

Seminar 26 November 2008
DEFENCE WATCHDOGS: The Administrative Oversight of Military Justice
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