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Welcome

As the Dean of Law at Macquarie, I welcome you to the Macquarie Law School website.

The Macquarie Law School first was established in 1972 as Sydney's third law school and admitted our first students in 1975.

A hallmark of all our programs is a commitment to the interdisciplinary study of law designed to foster a sound understanding of legal doctrine as well as an awareness of the role of law in society and a developed sense of social responsibility. Benefiting from the experiences of dedicated teachers who are also active researchers in their fields of study, we believe that students obtain a well-rounded qualification that opens the way to the variety of careers for which an understanding of law is relevant, including private legal practice, industry, commerce, government, education, and community services.

Our undergraduate LLB program, through both prescribed and elective units, covers all major areas of law – public, private and international - as well as theoretical and moral reflection on legal institutions. The wide range of electives includes clinical and mooting units. The undergraduate program is available to both internal and distance students.

Macquarie Law School has a strong post-graduate research program which provides quality supervision of students seeking a higher degree – the LLM or PhD – by research, especially in the fields of international law and environmental law.

Macquarie Law School has a new Concentration of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Legal Governance which is concerned with issues relating to the legal governance and regulatory problems facing governments, businesses, and communities, such as global and national governance, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and the medico-legal challenges of human health. The Legal Governance CoRE builds upon the expertise of Macquarie Law School’s established reputation for interdisciplinary research in the fields of international, public, and private law.

The Centre for Environmental Law is a centre of excellence focusing on international, comparative and national environmental law, climate change, biodiversity, marine law and oceans governance, planning and local government law, pollution law, corporate environmental law, Indigenous peoples and environmental rights, natural and cultural heritage, trade and environment, and environmental litigation and mediation. Its members also head the teaching staff of a number of post-graduate coursework programs in environmental law that are available to both lawyers and non-lawyers.

The Centre for Comparative Law, History and Governance is a world-class cross-disciplinary Macquarie University Research Centre specialising in how the legal and social history of Australia and other common law countries informs their present social policy and regulation and their future governance needs.

Our Visiting Professors program has included leading international scholars as well as leaders of the Judiciary in New South Wales. Macquarie Law School is the home to three refereed scholarly journals – Macquarie Law Journal, Legal History and Macquarie Journal of International & Comparative Environmental Law.

I invite you to browse through the Macquarie Law School website and to contact myself or any member of the staff for further information and assistance.

Professor Peter Radan
Dean, Macquarie Law School