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International Law

ANU Law School is globally renowned for its excellence across international law, ranging from doctrinal inquiries into the fundamentals of public international law to cutting-edge research in key domains of international law. This work helps advance expert and public understanding of international law in Australia and worldwide, including through the operation of the Centre for International and Public Law and publication of the Australian Year Book of International Law.

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Emma Aisbett

Associate Professor

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Environment, Climate & Health
Environmental Law

Donald Anton

Honorary Professor

International Environmental Law

Nina Araneta-Alana

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Critical Legal Scholarship
Environment, Climate & Health

Hina Aslam

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Environment, Climate & Health
Environmental Law

Bill Boothby

Honorary Professor

International Law
Law & Technology

Bill Campbell

Honorary Professor

International Law

Wenting Cheng

Grand Challenges Fellow

Environmental Law
International Law

Wanshu Cong

Lecturer

Critical Legal Scholarship
International Institution
International Law

Elizabeth Curran

Honorary Associate Professor

International Human Rights Law
Australian Indigenous Rights
Law & Society

Fiona de Londras

Honorary Professor

Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law

Jeremy Farrall

Professor

International Institution
International Law
Peace & Conflict

Jolyon Ford

Professor

Business & Human Rights
International Human Rights Law
Law & Politics

Ryan Goss

Executive

Administrative Law
Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law

Jessica Hambly

Senior Lecturer

Gender, Sexuality & the Law
Health Law & Ethics
International Refugee Law

Sarah Heathcote

Honorary Associate Professor

International Law

Michael Kobetsky

Honorary Professor

International Law

Eve Lester

DECRA Fellow

Administrative Law
International Human Rights Law
International Law

David Letts

Honorary Associate Professor

International Law

Ron Levy

Professor

Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law

Jonathan Liljeblad

Associate Professor

Comparative Law
Environment, Climate & Health
International Environmental Law

Desmond Manderson

Professor

Comparative Law
Critical Legal Scholarship
International Law

Justin McCaul

Postdoctoral Fellow

Australian Indigenous Rights
International Human Rights Law
International Indigenous Rights

Robert McLaughlin

Honorary Professor

International Law

Anne McNaughton

Senior Lecturer

European Law
International Law
Private Law

Anton Moiseienko

Senior Lecturer

Criminal Justice
Criminal Law
Financial Crime and Sanctions

Rebecca Monson

Professor

Critical Legal Scholarship
Environment, Climate & Health
Gender, Sexuality & the Law

Wayne Morgan

Associate Professor

Gender, Sexuality & the Law
International Human Rights Law
International Law

Matthew Neuhaus

Honorary Professor

International Law

Mark Nolan

Honorary Professor

Criminal Law
International Human Rights Law
Law & Society

Molly Townes O'Brien

Honorary Associate Professor

Criminal Law
International Human Rights Law
Law & Society

Kate Ogg

Professor

Comparative Law
Gender, Sexuality & the Law
International Human Rights Law

Donald Rothwell

Professor

International Law
Law & Politics
Law of the sea

Richard Rowe

Honorary Professor

International Law

Kim Rubenstein

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law

Anna Saunders

Lecturer

Intellectual Property Law
International Dispute Resolution
International Economic Law

Imogen Saunders

Associate Professor

International Law
Law & Politics

Esmé Shirlow

Associate Professor

International Dispute Resolution
International Economic Law
International Law

Lisa Strelein

Honorary Professor

International Human Rights Law
Australian Indigenous Rights
Legal Theory

Margaret Thornton

Emerita Professor

International Human Rights Law
Gender, Sexuality & the Law
Legal Education

Christopher Ward

Honorary Professor

International Law

Ernst Willheim

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law
Australian Indigenous Rights
Constitutional Law

Asmi Wood

Distinguished Professor

Australian Indigenous Rights
Constitutional Law
International Indigenous Rights

Matthew Zagor

Associate Professor

Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law
International Law

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10 July

Textbooks and the international legal gaze

10 July 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU Law School

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law 2025

03 July

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law -The International Court and Historic Responsibility for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

03 July 2025 9:00am - 10:15am

Australian Centre on China in the World
The Australian National University, Building 188, Fellows La, Acton ACT 2601, Australia

26 March

Sea Level Rise and International Law

26 March 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm

This is an online event

24 February

Trump 2.0: Tariffs, Territory, and Treaties

24 February 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Moot Court, College of Law, Governance and Policy, ANU

27 November

Ending contemporary forms of slavery: what is Australia’s position?

27 November 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Law Lecture Theatre, Building 5, ground floor, ANU College of Law

27 November

Ending contemporary forms of slavery: what is Australia’s position?

27 November 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Law Lecture Theatre, Building 5, ground floor, ANU College of Law

14 November

Climate migrants as the new stateless persons

14 November 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law

14 November

Climate migrants as the new stateless persons

14 November 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law

20 November

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Claiming Queer Liberty

20 November 2024 5:00pm - 7:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court

Fellows Road

20 November

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Claiming Queer Liberty

20 November 2024 5:00pm - 7:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court

Fellows Road

24 July

The ICC, and the Hamas/Israel conflict

24 July 2024 6:00pm - 7:30pm

ANU College of Law, Moot Court

27 February

Genocide and the International Court of Justice: Recent Developments

27 February 2024 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Law Link Theatre, ANU College of LawFellows La, Acton ACT 2601, Australia

27 February

Genocide and the International Court of Justice: Recent Developments

27 February 2024 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Law Link Theatre, ANU College of LawFellows La, Acton ACT 2601, Australia

12 February

Sustainability in the Boardroom: A View from the UK

12 February 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1. ANU College of Law, Building 7 Fellows Road, Acton, ACT, 2601

21 February

Reimagining Migrant and Refugee Justice - Launch and Panel Discussion

21 February 2024 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1. ANU College of Law, Building 7 Fellows Road, Acton, ACT, 2601

29 November

Book talk: Olivera Simic

29 November 2023 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law

09 November

Australia on the world stage: how the Australian Government engages in litigation before international courts and tribunals

09 November 2023 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Attorney-General’s Department, 3-5 National Circuit, Barton

07 November

Book launch: 'Human Rights and Populism'

07 November 2023 5:30pm - 7:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, 6A Fellows Road, Acton

07 November

Book launch: 'Human Rights and Populism'

07 November 2023 5:30pm - 7:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, 6A Fellows Road, Acton

03 October

5 pathways to justice for Ukraine

03 October 2023 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Haydon-Allen Lecture Theatre (Haydon-Allen Tank), 23 University Avenue, Australian National University

03 October

5 pathways to justice for Ukraine

03 October 2023 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Haydon-Allen Lecture Theatre (Haydon-Allen Tank), 23 University Avenue, Australian National University

26 September

Israel’s constitutional crisis – a turning point for the region’s future?

26 September 2023 6:00pm - 7:30pm

RSSS Auditorium, Room 1.28, 146 Ellery Crescent, Australian National University

21 August

Business, Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders: from conflict to potential alignment?

21 August 2023 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law

24 August

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: The International Criminal Court and global criminal justice: are we making progress?

24 August 2023 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Australian Centre of China in the World,
Building 188, Fellows Lane
The Australian National University
Acton, Canberra, ACT

05 July

AYBIL Highlights: Quarantine Island

05 July 2023 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Zoom

04 July

Countering foreign interference: Canada, Australia and the Five Eyes

04 July 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1.

ANU College of Law, Building 7 Fellows Road, Acton, ACT, 2601

09 May

Beyond borders: careers in international law

09 May 2023 12:00pm - 1:45pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court 5 Fellows Road Acton, ACT 2600

24 May

The Australian Human Rights Commission’s model for a Human Rights Act

24 May 2023 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Superfloor, Marie Reay Teaching Centre (Building 155) 155 University Avenue Canberra, ACT 2601

24 March

From discrimination to death: genocide process through a human rights lens

24 March 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, Building 6A Fellows Road

22 February

Critical capital: recovery and justice

22 February 2023 5:00pm - 7:45pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1. 6 Fellows Road Acton, ACT 2601

02 February

The Role of the ILC & VCLT in International Investment Law

02 February 2023 10:00am - 11:30am

Zoom

14 December

Reconceiving engagement with international law in a populist era

14 December 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Australian Centre for China in the World Lecture Theatre, Building 188, Fellows Lane, Acton

01 December

Schools, Blood, Guns, & Bombs: Education in Myanmar’s Pro-Democracy Struggle

01 December 2022 11:00am - 12:30pm

Zoom Webinar

16 November

The power to go to war

16 November 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law

24 November

AYBIL Highlights: An MH17 Roundtable Discussion

24 November 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Zoom

13 December

Twenty-fourth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture: Human Rights: Beyond Tragedies and Atrocities

13 December 2022 5:30pm - 7:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, 6A Fellows Road, Acton

13 December

Twenty-fourth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture: Human Rights: Beyond Tragedies and Atrocities

13 December 2022 5:30pm - 7:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, 6A Fellows Road, Acton

25 October

UNCLOS III and the LOSC Dispute Settlement Framework

25 October 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Zoom

26 September

Demystifying Law Careers: International and comparative law

26 September 2022 5:30pm - 7:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot court

19 August

Climate and international law

19 August 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Garth Evans Theatre, RG Casey Building, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, John McEwen Crescent, Barton, ACT 2600 and online

09 November

Book launch: Coastal state jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone

09 November 2022 6:00pm - 7:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, 6A Fellows Road, Acton

24 August

Judicial Loyalty to the Military in Authoritarian Regimes: How the Courts are Militarised in Myanmar

24 August 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

24 August

Judicial Loyalty to the Military in Authoritarian Regimes: How the Courts are Militarised in Myanmar

24 August 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

04 August

Japan-Australia relations: human rights and environmental protection

04 August 2022 6:00pm - 7:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court

Building 6

Fellows Road

Acton, ACT 2601

23 August

UNCLOS III and the LOSC institutions and implementing agreements

23 August 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Zoom

30 June

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Why It’s Time to Terminate the TRIPS Agreement

30 June 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU

05 May

Creative thinking: a tradition of international legal scholarship at ANU

05 May 2022 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1. and on Zoom

11 May

The afterlife of criminal evidence

11 May 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

11 May

The afterlife of criminal evidence

11 May 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

27 April

Human goods and human rights law

27 April 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Zoom

27 April

Human goods and human rights law

27 April 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Zoom

24 March

International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law

24 March 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

24 March

International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law

24 March 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

26 April

Pacific perspectives on the negotiations at UNCLOS III

26 April 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Zoom

13 April

Book launch: 'The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars'

13 April 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Law Lecture Theatre, ANU College of Law, Building 5, Fellows Road, Acton ACT 2600

13 April

Book launch: 'The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars'

13 April 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Law Lecture Theatre, ANU College of Law, Building 5, Fellows Road, Acton ACT 2600

01 March

LRSJ Launch and Recruitment Drive 2022

01 March 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm

ANU College of Law lawns

Fellows Road, Canberra ACT 2600

17 March

Book launch: Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes

17 March 2022 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Zoom

24 February

Australian and New Zealand perspectives on the negotiations at UNCLOS III

24 February 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Zoom

18 June

Twenty Minutes With The Devil

18 June 2022 7:30pm - 25 June 2022 9:00pm

The Street Theatre, 15 Childers St, City West ACT 2601

18 October

Modern slavery in supply chains: Assessing corporate reporting

18 October 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Online

20 October

Alumni panel: Careers in social justice, law reform and advocacy

20 October 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Online via Zoom Webinar

30 September

State Responsibility and Rebels: The History and Legacy of Protecting Investment Against Revolution

30 September 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Zoom

07 October

Menzies Cyber Law Series #3: Lost and found in space

07 October 2021 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Online via Zoom Webinar

01 September

A Latent Encounter with the Court: How Australia and Japan Settled a Dispute over the Regulation of Pearl Fisheries

01 September 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Online via Zoom

09 September

For One Day Only: Law, Space, Matter

09 September 2021 12:00pm - 10 September 2021 10:30am

Online

11 October

Panel discussion: LGBTIQA* journeys

11 October 2021 12:00pm - 12:00pm

15 June

Problem or Panacea? The Puzzle of General Principles of Law as a Source of International Law

15 June 2021 5:30pm - 7:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Courts

27 May

Modern slavery event series

27 May 2021 5:30pm - 28 May 2021 12:00pm

Australian Centre on China in the World Auditorium, Fellows Lane, ACT 2600

ANU College of Law Moot Court, Building 6, Fellows Road, Acton, ACT 2600

30 June

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: International Law and the Provocation of the Digital

30 June 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Online via Zoom

23 June

The Antarctic Treaty at 60: Reflections, Current Realities and Future Challenges

23 June 2021 9:00am - 12:30pm

The ANU College of Law Moot Courts
Law Building #6

27 April

Developments in cyber and international law at the UN

27 April 2021 12:30pm - 1:30pm

The Diplomatic Academy
Level 1, 44 Sydney Ave
Forrest, ACT 2603

Or via WebEx

06 May

Judging at the Interface: Deference to Domestic Authority in International Adjudication

06 May 2021 5:30pm - 7:00pm

The ANU College of Law Moot Courts
Law Building #6

21 April

The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice

21 April 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

24 March

Book Launch: War and Peace in Outer Space

24 March 2021 9:00am - 10:00am

via Zoom Webinar

04 May

Book Launch: Better Law for a Better World

04 May 2021 5:30pm - 7:15pm

Online via Zoom

18 March

Artemis and the Moon: An International Law Conundrum

18 March 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Courts

03 March

LRSJ Virtual Recruitment Drive 2021

03 March 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Online via Zoom

24 February

Human Rights Act 2004 of the ACT

24 February 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Level 4, Room 7.4.1

05 March

The Politics of International Law Seminar Series

05 March 2021 12:00pm - 11 August 2022 2:00pm

Online via Zoom Webinar

04 March

Law, Capitalism and Political Economy: Public and International Perspectives

04 March 2021 5:00pm - 7:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Courts

14 December

The Government's COVID-19 Response: Legal advising in the middle of a pandemic

14 December 2020 5:30pm - 6:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Courts, Law Building #6

01 December

Constitutional Struggles in Asia

01 December 2020 2:00pm - 03 December 2020 7:15pm

05 November

The US elections and their implications for Australian-US ties

05 November 2020 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Online via Zoom Webinar

27 October

The pandemic paradox in international law

27 October 2020 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Via Zoom Webinar

09 September

Reading the tea leaves of China’s rule-of-law project

09 September 2020 6:00pm - 7:15pm

Via Zoom Webinar

05 August

Transparency and accountability in the ‘age of information’

05 August 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library / Zoom

29 July

Protection from Refuge: The Role of Courts along the Refugee Journey

29 July 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library / Zoom

25 February

Book launch: The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law

25 February 2020 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Fellows Road Lecture Theatre 2, ANU College of Law, 6 Fellows Road, Acton

23 June 2025

The prospect of the conflict of US attacking Iran

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to ABC Radio

23 June 2025

Did a fleet of trucks remove Iran's nuclear assets before US strikes?

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to The Age

25 March 2025

Greenland's PM slams visit by US officials

Professor Matt Qvortrup speaks to ABC

14 March 2025

Any Australian involvement in a potential peacekeeping mission to Ukraine could jeopardise its success

Professor Don Rothwell speaks to ABC Radio

26 February 2025

Chinese warships fired missiles off the high seas near Australian coast, exhibiting activity in the region

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to ABC Radio

19 February 2025

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Honorary Professor Matthew Neuhaus interviewed by ABC Radio

18 February 2025

Professor Donald Rothwell spoke to Michael West Media about Oscar Jenkins – an Australian that has been captured by Russia

25 February 2025

Chinese Navy conducting two live-fire military exercises in waters near Australia and New Zealand was expected giving proper notices

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to 2CC

25 February 2025

China didn’t violate any rules with its live-fire exercises. So why are Australia and NZ so worried?

Professor Donald Rothwell writes in Crikey

24 February 2025

Why China's live-fire military exercises in waters near Australia and New Zealand cause unsettling

Professor Don Rothwell writes in The Conversation

24 February 2025

Why China's live-fire military exercises in waters near Australia and New Zealand cause unsettling

Professor Don Rothwell writes in The Conversation

15 February 2025

Refugees released from detention denied tertiary education

Professor Kate Ogg cited in The Saturday Paper

17 February 2025

‘This is not a joke’: Could the US buy Greenland?

Professor Donald Rothwell cited in The Age

17 February 2025

The top diplomat who thinks Australia — and the world — should embrace Trump

Associate Professor Imogen Saunders quoted in SBS News

26 June 2024

VIDEO: Assange case sends signal about US prosecution of foreign nationals

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to ABC News

19 June 2024

Australian Border Force questions three people suspected of travelling to join Israeli army

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to The Guardian

11 June 2024

UN ceasefire resolution may signal turning point

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to ABC Radio

30 May 2024

Japan is determined to keep hunting whales. And now it has a brand new ‘mothership’

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to CNN

30 May 2024

Is international law powerless in the face of conflicts like Gaza?

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to ABC Radio

24 May 2024

The colourful Haas family and their long trail of misery

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to The Australian

23 May 2024

The ICC will consider arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders. How has Australia responded?

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to The Guardian

21 May 2024

International law professor explains ICC warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas leaders

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to Sky News

20 May 2024

NRL star's father sent drugs from Mexico: investigators

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to Sydney Morning Herald

16 May 2024

Israeli 'extremists' are going after Gaza aid convoys. Will they be held to account?

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to SBS News

07 May 2024

‘A dangerous act’: how a Chinese fighter jet intercepted an RAAF aircraft and what happens next

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to The Guardian

27 April 2024

The challengers to Australia's sanctions against Russia

Dr Anton Moiseienko speaks to SBS News

20 April 2024

Three Australians joining challenge to Israeli sea blockade of Gaza

Professor Donald Rothwell speaks to SBS News

12 January 2024

A lawyer’s perspective: what does South Africa’s genocide court case in the Hague mean for the war in Gaza?

Professor Donald Rothwell