UTAS Faculty of Law

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Faculty of Law
Type Public
Established 1893
Vice-Chancellor Peter Rathjen
Dean Margaret Otlowski
Location ,
Australia Australia
Campus Urban
Website www.utas.edu.au/law

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The UTAS Faculty of Law, founded in 1893[1] as Australia's fourth law faculty, is the law school of the University of Tasmania. It offers the undergraduate Bachelor of Laws degree, as well as the postgraduate degrees Master of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy. In 2015, QS World University Rankings ranked the UTAS Law Faculty in the top 200 on its list of the law schools in the world.[2]

The Faculty is home to the School of Law, the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, the Centre for Law and Genetics, and the Centre for Legal Studies.

The current Dean of the Faculty and Head of the School of Law is Professor Margaret Otlowski.[3]

History

The Faculty was established in 1893 as the Faculty of Law, and has remained largely independent, other than a short period of time in the 1990s when it merged with the then-Faculty of Commerce as the Faculty of Commerce and Law.

Faculty and services

The Faculty of Law offers undergraduate and graduate Bachelor of Laws programs, as well as combined undergraduate law courses with Arts, Business, Economics, ICT and Science. The Faculty also provides a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice through the Centre for Legal Studies, as well as research Master of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy programs.

The University of Tasmania Law Review[4] and the Journal of Law, Information and Science[5] are based within the Faculty as well as numerous publications produced by the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute.

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 University of Tasmania Law Review student editorial, and membership of the active law students' society, the Tasmania University Law Society (TULS).

Notable alumni

Judges

Legal practitioners

  • Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and lawyer

Legal academics

Politics and government

Diplomacy

  • Ralph Harry AC, CBE, Diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations

Business

  • Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker

References

  1. [1], retrieved on 2012-10-07.
  2. "QS University Rankings by Subject 2015 – Law"
  3. http://www.utas.edu.au/law/people/law-people-profiles/Margaret-Otlowski
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