Government and public power

• Professor James Allan

Jim has published widely in the areas of legal philosophy and constitutional law, including in all the top English language legal philosophy journals in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, much the same being true of constitutional law journals as well. 

• Professor Nicholas Aroney

Nick has published over 160 journal articles, book chapters and books in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and legal theory. He has led several international research projects in comparative federalism, bicameralism, legal pluralism, and law & religion, and he speaks frequently at international conferences on these topics.

• Professor Kit Barker

Kit is interested in private law as a whole, but specialises in the law of torts and unjust enrichment law and the law's doctrine, philosophical foundations and remedies. More recently, his work has explored the interface between private law and public law and policy, with a focus on the tortious liability of government, misfeasance in public office and the use of private enforcers in public law. 

• Professor Ann Black

Ann researches in the field of comparative law, law & religion, and legal pluralism, with particular interest in Islamic law and the law and legal cultures of Asia, especially Brunei Darussalam.

• Professor Anthony Cassimatis

Anthony is the author or co-author of 5 books and numerous articles and book chapters on public international law, administrative law and legal advocacy.

• Dr Wenting Cheng

Wenting is a legal and regulatory scholar specialising in intellectual property law, sustainability governance, and their intersection. She has applied interdisciplinary skills, comparative perspectives, and regulatory theories to research in diverse areas, including intellectual property law, innovation policy, energy regulation (particularly hydrogen and off-shore wind power), just climate transition, and sustainable finance at local, national, and international levels.

• Dr Vicky Comino

Vicky's main research area is corporate law, and in particular the regulation of corporate misconduct. Her recent articles have addressed important topics in the corporations law area. Those topics include the difficulties facing the use of civil penalties by calling for Parliament to pass legislation to resolve procedural obstacles, the adequacy of ASIC's 'tool-kit' to deal with corporate and financial wrongdoing, including the deployment of 'new' enforcement tools, such as enforceable undertakings and the possibilities and limits of the use of 'corporate culture' as a regulatory mechanism. 

• Professor  Emirata Jennifer Corrin

Jennifer Corrin researches on law reform and development in plural legal regimes and legal issues affecting small states. She has published in the areas of legal pluralism, comparative law, South Pacific law, customary law, human rights, court systems, evidence, civil procedure, family law, land law, constitutional law and contract. 

• Dr Renato Costa

Renato's research focus is constitutional theory and specific aspects of the Australian constitutional system, including the rule of law, federalism, constitutional history, religious freedom and human rights, political and legal theology, and jurisprudence.

• Professor Craig Forrest

Craig teaches and undertakes research in maritime law, private international law and cultural heritage law. He has published widely in these areas and contributed directly to national and international public policy developments and directly to the drafting of national legislation and international law. 

• Professor Ross Grantham

Ross's principal research interests are in the fields of corporate governance and the private law. He has published extensively in the area of the duties of company directors, as well as on matters dealing with the theoretical nature of the company and the implications of this nature for the integration of the company as a juristic entity into the general legal system. He has also published extensively on developments in the law of unjust enriched and restitution, particularly the interface between restitution and the law of property, and on the theoretical and philosophical basis of the private law.

• Dr Caitlin Goss

Caitlin's research interests are in comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, international law, and in the law of evidence.

• Professor Paul Harpur

Paul is a leading international and comparative disability rights legal academic, current Australian Research Council Future Fellow, leader in higher education reforms, an Associate with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and duel Paralympian.

• Dr Barbora Jedlickova

Barbora specialises in competition law, with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. Her research has explored various topics, including cartels, vertical restraints, the concepts of ‘bargaining power’ and ‘power’ in competition law, sustainability and competition law, AI and competition law, and economic and jurisprudential theories and arguments in competition law.

• Associate Professor David Morrison

 David is an interdisciplinary researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of taxation law, corporate and insolvency law, bankruptcy, finance law and financial literacy as those interests apply to finance, the economy, social and policy framework and climate change. He researches around law and finance especially as it applies to literacy and support for generational change.

• Dr Robert Mullins

Rob's research expertise is in legal philosophy and the theory of legal reasoning. Much of his published work investigates the implications of different accounts of the meaning and use of deontic language developed by logicians and linguists for the understanding of legal rights, obligations, and authority relations. His most recent work focuses on logics of common law reasoning developed by scholars in Artificial Intelligence and Law.

• Professor Tamara Walsh

 Tamara's research examines the impact of the law on vulnerable people including children and young people, people experiencing homelessness, people on low incomes, people with disabilities, mothers and carers. Her research has been widely published, both in Australia and internationally.

• Dr Matt Watson

Matt's research interests lie primarily in the fields of legal and political philosophy. His core research areas include multiculturalism and minority rights (with an emphasis on minority language rights and language policy), constitutionalism, the intersection of law and politics, the liberal philosophical tradition, and all aspects of the philosophy of law. Matt is currently working on a research project that enquires into the legal and moral permissibility of taking account of religious and cultural membership in refugee resettlement determinations.

• Dr Kim Weinert

​​​​​​​Kim's research sits at the intersection of society, public policy, and the law. Exploring the traditional boundaries of doctrinal law and its theoretical foundations in relation to emerging and new societal challenges, her research unites several strands of legal inquiry linked to social justice and equality.