Legal Theory
Legal Theory
Professor
Research interests:
Corporations & Financial Markets Law, Law and Humanities
Emeritus Professor
Research interests:
Law of Obligations, Philosophies of Law, Administrative law, Torts, Concepts of responsibility
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, State Fragility and Armed Conflicts, Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Rule of Law Reform, Philosophies of Law, Rule of Law Theory, Islamic criminal laws, Criminal Justice, Law and Society in South Asia, Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, Governance and Development
Professor
Research interests:
Legal Philosophy, Public law, Indigenous rights, Law and Cultural Difference, Constitutional Law and Theory, Indigenous peoples and the law, legal theory, Indigenous peoples and the law
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
law and economics, Regulatory theory and practice, Comparative Law
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Public International Law, State Responsibility, Law of Treaties, Human rights, Freedom of expression, Space law, Rule of Law
Lecturer
Research interests:
Privacy, Freedom of expression, Defamation, Analytic philosophy, Proportionality, Parliamentary privilege, Rule of Law, Rights-conflicts
Professor
Research interests:
International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Use of force, Methodology of Public International Law, Comparative criminal law
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Trusts, Civil Remedies, Private Law Theory, Adjudication Theory
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Corporate law, Regulation of Corporate Responsibility, Medical Negligence, Asian Law, National security
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Critical legal theory, Family law, Problem Based Learning, Wellbeing, Citizenship, Law and Cultural Difference, Gender, feminism, Feminist Legal Theory
Honorary Professor
Research interests:
Digital Learning, Experiential Learning, Curriculum Design, Problem Based Learning, Legal Identity, Law and Humanities, Professional Identity Formation
Professor
Research interests:
Law and Humanities, Rule of Law Theory, Art, Literature and Law, Drug policy and drug history, Law and Social Justice
Associate Professor
Research interests:
General Human Rights Law and Policy, Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy, Property Law, Sexuality, International trade, Critical legal theory, Gender, feminism, Feminist Legal Theory
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Law and Religion, legal theory, Law and the Humanities, Legal Philosophy, Jurisprudence
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Critical legal theory, Refugee Law, Law and Cultural Difference, Human Rights and the Law, Law and Humanities, Jurisprudence, Rule of Law Theory
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
General Human Rights Law and Policy, International and European Human Rights, Refugee Law, Forced Migration and Movement of Peoples, Evidence and Procedure, Gender, feminism, Feminist Legal Theory
Manager - LRSJ
Research interests:
Law and Humanities, Refugee Law, Law and literature, Critical legal theory, Immigration
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
History and Theory of International Law, Third World Approaches to International Law, Law and Political Economy, Critical legal theory, Feminist and Queer Legal Theory
Lecturer
Research interests:
Corporate law, Legal personhood, Ethical theory, Corporate ethical agency, Monism, Law reform, legal theory, Systems theory, Legal design
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Refugee Law, Immigration, Human rights, Constitutional Law, Public law, international legal theory, recognition theory, narrative legal identities
Latest news
06
Feb
2020
Thammasat University lecturer Thitirat Thipsamritkul presented her research into Thailand's new data protection law as part of her seven-week fellowship at ANU College of Law.
17
Jan
2020
How does one lead a life of law, love, and freedom? It’s a question that Associate Professor Joshua Neoh aims to address in his new book, "Law, Love and Freedom: From the Sacred to the Secular".
11
Nov
2019
ANU College of Law Professor Desmond Manderson discusses the "great privilege" of being named a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
In the Media
01
Jul
2020
Real estate agent threatening to sue former tenant over 'defamatory' online review
Jelena Gligorijevic quoted in ABC News
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11
May
2020
(Un)lawful Lockdown And Government Accountability
Jelena Gligorijevic writes in Scoop
Research theme:
11
Mar
2020
Will the modern university make it to its 1000th birthday?
Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
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13
Nov
2019
In politics and law, does art matter?
Desmond Manderson interviewed by ABC Radio National - Big Ideas
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23
Oct
2019
Porter is swimming against the tide on legal cannabis
Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
Research theme:
22
Oct
2019
Cannabis laws bound for the courtroom to work out whether ACT or Commonwealth is right
Desmond Manderson quoted in ABC News
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15
Oct
2019
A No-Deal Brexit? British Businesses May Get a Good Deal under a UK-China Free Trade Agreement
Joseph Lee writes in University of Oxford
03
May
2019
The National Security Risks Over Huawei and its 5G Network: Is an Outright Ban or a Restricted Access the Answer?
Joseph Lee writes in University of Oxford
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25
Sep
2018
Taking Bigotry off the Books in India
Wayne Morgan interviewed by Policy Forum Pod
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24
May
2017
Give Me Beauty or Give Me Death: Understanding Trump's Nostalgia Through La La Land and Jackie
Justine Poon writes in Demos Journal
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Upcoming events
23
Sep
2020
Why the Law is What it Ought to Be
6.00PM to 7.00PM
- Professor Trevor Allan LLD, FBA
In this seminar, Professor Trevor Allan LLD, FBA of the University of Cambridge will present his thesis that the law is constituted by the measure of justice for the political community in which it operates, so that a public conception of justice is substituted for conflicting private ones.
Past events
06
Oct
2016
Doing the research I do has left scars: Challenges of researching in the transitional justice field
1.00PM to 2.00PM
- Dr Olivera Simić, Griffith University
Transitional justice research involves critical examination of difficult topics that can raise ethical and methodological issues for participants and for researchers.
26
Sep
2017
Against epistocracy: Reconsidering the demographic objection
3.00PM to 4.00PM
- Udit Bhatia, University of Oxford
Why should we prefer democracy to an epistocracy of competent persons? In his response to this question, David Estlund appeals to the ‘demographic objection’.
15
Aug
2018
Reading group - Contemporary critical theory: What is it? What's it for?
5.00PM to 6.30PM
This reading group, convened by author and philosopher of aesthetics Robyn Ferrell, now an Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, will excavate the history of critical theory from Benjamin and Adorno, with a focus on theoretical work by leading figures in recent years and on contemporary issues of the most urgent importance.
17
Sep
2019
Performing sovereignty and the refugee body
1.00PM to 3.00PM
- Likim Ng
HDR student Likim Ng presents her thesis paper.
