The ANU College of Law is the

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at the

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and one of the seven academic

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of the ANU. It is located in

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, the capital of Australia. This provides the College with opportunities to connect with the work of the

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, the

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, the departments and agencies of the Federal Government, as well as the local ACT law-making institutions – the Legislative Assembly and the ACT courts. The ANU College of Law is a premier law school in

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. It is ranked 4th nationally and equal 17th in the world according to the 2021

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of the College is Professor Anthony Connolly.

History

The College was established in 1960 as the Faculty of Law.

Faculty and services

The ANU College of Law is home to numerous internationally-regarded researchers and practitioners, and offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate law programs. The College publishes the ''

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'' and ''Australian Year Book of International Law''. In addition to its academic programme, the law school promotes a range of co-curricular activities including mooting, negotiation and client interview competitions, membership of the ''Federal Law Review'' student editor board, and The ANU Law Revue. The College has been the world champion team in the

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two times, in 1981 and 2010, and runner up once, in 1998.

Notable alumni

Judges

* Peter Buchanan, former Justice of the

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(8 September 2006 - 9 September 2016) *

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, Justice of the

since 2012,

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2008–2012 * Terence Higgins, former Chief Justice of the

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(2 July 1990 - 30 January 2003) *Geoff Lindsay, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, appointed 6 August 2012. *

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, AO, CVO, former Chief Judge of the

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(13 October 2017 – 9 December 2018) and Deputy Chancellor of the University of New South Wales * Rachel Pepper (judge), NSW Land and Environment Court, appointed 1 May 2009. *

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, Acting Judge of the Australian Capital Territory Drug and Alcohol Court since 2020, former Justice of the

(2008-2017), former

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of the

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(1998-2008) * Alan Robertson SC, former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (2011-2020) *James Stevenson, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, appointed 1 February 2012. * Louise Taylor (jurist), Magistrate of the Australian Capital Territory since 2018, and the ACT's first Aboriginal judicial officer. *

Tony Whitlam Antony Philip Whitlam (born 7 January 1944) is an Australian lawyer who has served as a politician and judge. He is the son of Gough Whitlam (former Prime Minister) and Margaret Whitlam. Early life and education Whitlam was born in Elizabet ...

, former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia (1 January 1993 -1 May 2005)

Legal practitioners

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, Fijian Lawyer *David Risstrom, barrister * Jennifer Robinson, human rights and

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lawyer, Rhodes Scholar 2006

Law professors

Thomas Faunce Thomas Faunce (Thomas Alured Faunce) (1958–2019) was a professor at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He practiced both law and medicine, and his professorship was a joint one, being in both the ANU College of ...

, Professor at ANU College of Law and ANU Medical School (2006-2019) *

Jeremy Gans Jeremy Gans is an Australian author and academic. He is currently Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School. His expertise is in the criminal justice system, and has particular expertise on the law of evidence, the jury system, human rights, as we ...

, Professor at

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, expert in criminal law and animal law, and prominent

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personality * Mark Nolan SFHEA, Professor at ANU College of Law (2002-2020), Director of the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Stuart University *

Jane Stapleton Jane Stapleton (born 26 March 1952) is an Australian academic lawyer with a specialism in tort law. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2016 to 2022. Early life and educat ...

, Emerita Professor at the NU College of Law E.E. Smith Professor at Texas, Austin, 38th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2016–present) * James Stellios , Professor at the ANU College of Law, constitutional law expert, barrister * Phillipa Weeks, Professor at ANU College of Law (-2006), expert in labour law * Fiona Wheeler , Emerita Professor at ANU College of Law, expert in constitutional law * George Williams, Professor at the

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, constitutional law expert

Politics and government

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, Senator for New South Wales *

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AC DBE, former Senator for Victoria *

John Hannaford John Planta Hannaford (born 21 January 1949) is a former Australian politician. Born in Goulburn, the son of William Henry Planta and Amy Frances Hannaford, he became a lawyer, having studied at the Australian National University in Canberra. He ...

, former New South Wales Government Minister *

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, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia *

Gary Humphries Gary John Joseph Humphries (born 6 July 1958) is a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2003 to 2 ...

, former Senator for the Australian Capital Territory *

Kate Jones Kate Jennifer Jones (born 10 April 1979) is an Australian former politician from Queensland. She served as a Labor Party Member of Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2012, and again from 2015 to 2020. Jones firs ...

, former Queensland Government Minister *

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, Senator for Queensland * John McMillan AO, Australian Information Commissioner * Brett Mason, Senator for Queensland *

Nick Minchin Nicholas Hugh Minchin (born 15 April 1953) is a former Australian politician and former Australian Consul-General in New York, USA. He previously served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to ...

, former Senator for South Australia *

Simon Overland Simon James Overland (born 19 March 1962)
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APM, Tasmanian Justice Department Secretary, 23rd Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police *

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, Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly * Warwick Smith AM, former Member of the Australian Parliament *

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, former Chief Minister of the ACT, Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories *

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AC, QC, 5th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory *

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OBE, former Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum *

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, former Member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales *

QC, former Member of the Australian Parliament, former judge * Peter Woolcott, Australian diplomat

Other

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of the

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* Stephen Rice, journalist * Tim Rogers, musician *

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, criminal *Graham Tuckwell, Founder and Chairman of ETF Securities Limited *

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AM, Editor-at-Large of ''

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References

External links

ANU College of Law Website
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