Research centres

Reflecting our research strengths, and supporting our scholars and experts, the ANU College of Law hosts multiple research centres covering the areas of international law, public law, law and social justice, military law, commercial law, and law and the humanities.

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The ANU College of Law Centre for Commercial Law is a centre of excellence in private and government commercial law reform, advice and policy evaluation, and a leader in commercial law research and teaching. It also provides a national forum for academics, practitioners and regulators working in private and government commercial law.

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The Centre for International and Public Law seeks to enrich legal research into the relationship between governments, and between governments and their citizens from both domestic and international perspectives.

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The Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities (CLAH) brings together humanities-based research into questions of law and justice, both within the ANU College of Law and across diverse disciplines including art history and theory, literature, philosophy, human rights, history, and cultural studies at ANU.

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The Centre for Military and Security Law is at the cutting-edge of public debate, research and policy development in military and security law. Through the frequent publication of reports, books and commentaries, centre members influence government decisions on military and security law and international policy agendas. Centre members have diverse backgrounds including in senior military roles, senior public service positions and legal practice and strong connections to other key ANU centres and colleges.

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The Deliberative Governance and Law Project is a new discipline in research that explores how law influences the quality of deliberation in democracies and provides a global network for scholarship and policy on deliberative democracy, governance and law.

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We have an explicit commitment to the themes of law reform and social justice as core components for understanding the law.