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Public Law

ANU Law School is one of the nation’s premier centres for the study of public law, including domestic and comparative constitutional and administrative law. Our academics are recognised experts and sought-after commentators on law and politics, in Australia and elsewhere. We also contribute to public discourse through the Centre for International and Public Law and publication of the Federal Law Review.

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Will Bateman

Professor

Administrative Law
Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law

Moeen Cheema

Associate Professor

Asian Law
Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law

Natasha Cica

Honorary Professor

Private Law
Public Law

Tony Connolly

Executive

Australian Indigenous Rights
Constitutional Law
Legal Theory

Robin Creyke

Emerita Professor

Administrative Law
Law & Development

Dominique Dalla-Pozza

Senior Lecturer

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Law & Politics

Fiona de Londras

Honorary Professor

Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law

Michael Foran

Visiting Fellow

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Gender, Sexuality & the Law

Jolyon Ford

Professor

Business & Human Rights
International Human Rights Law
Law & Politics

Robert French

Distinguished Professor

Public Law

Jelena Gligorijevic

Senior Lecturer

Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law
Media Law

Ryan Goss

Executive

Administrative Law
Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law

James Hathaway

Visiting Fellow

International Human Rights Law
International Law
International Refugee Law

Eve Lester

DECRA Fellow

Administrative Law
International Human Rights Law
International Law

Ron Levy

Professor

Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law

Andrew Macintosh

Professor

Administrative Law
Environmental Law
Law & Development

Leighton McDonald

Professor

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Jurisprudence

John McMillan

Emeritus Professor

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law

Anton Moiseienko

Senior Lecturer

Criminal Justice
Criminal Law
Financial Crime and Sanctions

Linda Mulcahy

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law
Gender, Sexuality & the Law
Private Law

Dennis Pearce

Emeritus Professor

Administrative Law

Kieran Pender

Honorary Lecturer

Constitutional Law

James Popple

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Law & Technology

Heather Roberts

Associate Professor

Constitutional Law
Courts & Tribunals
Gender, Sexuality & the Law

Alan Robertson

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law

Donald Rothwell

Professor

International Law
Law & Politics
Law of the sea

Kim Rubenstein

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law

Imogen Saunders

Associate Professor

International Law
Law & Politics

Amelia Simpson

Honorary Associate Professor

Constitutional Law

Peter Sutherland

Visiting Fellow

Administrative Law

Stephen Thomson

Associate Professor

Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Health, Law and Bioethics

Greg Weeks

Professor

Administrative Law

Fiona Wheeler

Emerita Professor

Constitutional Law

Ernst Willheim

Honorary Professor

Administrative Law
Australian Indigenous Rights
Constitutional Law

Asmi Wood

Distinguished Professor

Australian Indigenous Rights
Constitutional Law
International Indigenous Rights

Clement Yongxi Chen

Lecturer

Administrative Law
Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law

Matthew Zagor

Associate Professor

Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Law
International Law

13 March

So you want to be an Associate

13 March 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm

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

Fellows Lane

26 October

Twenty-fifth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture: The curse of the sausage: laws, expectation and complexity in modern elections

26 October 2023 5:30pm - 7:00pm

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

26 July

Legal Education and Practice: A matter of knowledge or experience?

26 July 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1.

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

10 August

Is the UK populist?

10 August 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1.

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

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

12 July

Introduction to financial crime law with Dr Anton Moiseienko

12 July 2023 5:00pm - 6:00pm

12 July

Introduction to financial crime law with Dr Anton Moiseienko

12 July 2023 5:00pm - 6:00pm

02 May

Environmental constitutionalism: A masterclass with A/Prof Ron Levy

02 May 2023 6:00pm - 7:00pm

22 March

CANCELLED - Sanctions through a 'South African lens': from political sovereignty to consumer sovereignty

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

ANU College of Law Moot Court, Building 6A

19 May

Questions of national (be)longing – critical and theoretical engagements with citizenship

19 May 2023 9:00am - 5:00pm

Moot Court, ANU College of Law

25 October

UNCLOS III and the LOSC Dispute Settlement Framework

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

Zoom

09 November

The patterns and purposes of anti-abortion legal experimentalism

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

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

19 October

Love; Thoms – belonging, citizenship and identity

19 October 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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

21 September

Common Law Constitutionalism and Australia’s Implied Freedom of Political and Governmental Communication

21 September 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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

21 September

Common Law Constitutionalism and Australia’s Implied Freedom of Political and Governmental Communication

21 September 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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

23 August

UNCLOS III and the LOSC institutions and implementing agreements

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

Zoom

26 April

Pacific perspectives on the negotiations at UNCLOS III

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

Zoom

24 February

Australian and New Zealand perspectives on the negotiations at UNCLOS III

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

Zoom

20 October

The Rule of Law in Context: Australia

20 October 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Zoom

15 May

From coups to crises: where next for Thailand?

15 May 2019 5:30pm - 7:00pm

The Auditorium, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU

11 August

Voluntary assisted dying and discrimination on the basis of state residence

11 August 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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

01 April

ICON•S AUS/NZ Constitutional Theory Group Annual Conference 2022

01 April 2022 10:00am - 5:30pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court

30 June

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Deliberative peace referendums

30 June 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Online via Zoom

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.

03 March

Regulating truth and lies in political advertising: Implied freedom considerations

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

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

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

10 November

The People in Question – Web Symposium

10 November 2020 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Via Zoom Webinar

23 September

Why the law is what it ought to be

23 September 2020 6:00pm - 7:00pm

02 September

The Commonwealth’s power to use the ADF to provide civil aid during disasters and pandemics

02 September 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm

12 August

Freedom of Expression, Liberalism and Harmful Expression

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

via Zoom

16 June 2025

A natural selection years in the making

Honorary Professor Kim Rubenstein writes in The Canberra Times

15 June 2025

A groundbreaking appointment, but this evolution has not been natural

Honorary Professor Kim Rubenstein write in The Canberra Times

18 April 2025

Legal warning for Dutton's 'unconstitutional' gas plan

Associate Professor Emma Aisbett speaks to Sydney Morning Herald