Chief Justice Andrew Bell welcomes the appointment of Stephen Free SC to the New South Wales Court of Appeal.

When Lillian Ireland moved from Tasmania (lutruwita) to Canberra (Ngunnawal-Ngambri Country) in 2016 to study at The Australian National University (ANU), she was excited about growing within a supportive community of Indigenous students.

Lawyer, storyteller and PhD candidate gets boost in research exploring how art practices can be used to advance coronial justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

News

In late 2024, Professor James Stellios FAAL FASSA, former Head of the ANU Law School, was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. On 21 February 2025, he will be welcomed at a Ceremonial Sitting in Sydney.

Student profile

Read about Kate's journey at the ANU Law School.

Research

Dr Susan Bartie is a passionate socio-legal historian at the ANU Law School. She is currently working on a 50-year history of Australian environmental lawyers (both academic and practising). This project builds on her prior studies of the discipline of law and is part of her broader academic agenda: to strengthen the empirical dimensions of law and better integrate them into mainstream legal studies and cognate disciplines.