Study with us
Local Student study refers to the range of courses available to students who have completed undergraduate studies
International Student study refers to the range of courses available to students who have completed undergraduate studies
Program
Career outcomes
Graduates of our programs find rewarding work in policy making, legal advocacy, justice sector reform, and dispute resolution.
A 50-day industry placement working in the field provides graduates with practical skills and ensure they are job-ready for a career in government policy, law reform and/or client advocacy sectors.
Research expertise
Our teachers and researchers investigate pressing criminal justice, human rights, legal and policy change issues such as:
- drug policy and law reform,
- sex worker rights and law reform,
- therapeutic and trauma-informed law reform, and
- transformative justice.
Staff
- Professor Rob Watts (the legitimacy of law and politics, human rights, ethics, young people)
- Professor Stuart Thomas (mental health stigma, police- decision making, police use of force, police and vulnerable populations)
- Professor Anastasia Powell (Family violence, sexual violence, technology-facilitated abuse, digital criminology)
- Professor Georgina Heydon (sexual assault, family violence, forensic interviewing, forensic linguistics)
- Dr Gregory Stratton (wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, digital criminology, parole)
- Associate Professor Brianna Chesser (sexual violence, legal responses, therapeutic responses, criminal justice system, criminal liability)
- Dr Rajesh Sharma (mediation and dispute resolution, arbitration, commercial and banking law reform, moot courts and Moot mediation)
