UTAS Faculty of Law
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1893 |
| Vice-Chancellor | Peter Rathjen |
| Dean | Margaret Otlowski |
| Location |
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.utas.edu.au/law |
University of Tasmania 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
- Sir Stanley Burbury, KCMG, KCVO, KBE, Chief Justice of Tasmania 1956-1973
- Ewan Crawford, former Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania
- Sir William Lambert Dobson, KCMG, FLS, Chief Justice of Tasmania 1885-1898
- Sir John Stokell Dodds, KCMG, Chief Justice of Tasmania 1898-1914
- Stephen Estcourt QC, Tasmanian Supreme Court judge
- Philip Lewis Griffiths, former Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea
- Peter Heerey AM, QC, former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
- Duncan Kerr, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and former Attorney-General of Australia
- Davendra Pathik, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
Legal practitioners
- Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
- Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and lawyer
Legal academics
- Enid Campbell AC, former Dean of Monash University Faculty of Law and first female law professor in Australasia
- Kate Warner AM, current Governor of Tasmania and legal academic
Politics and government
- Eric Abetz, Senator for Tasmania
- Guy Barnett, Senator for Tasmania
- David Bushby, Chief Government Whip in the Senate
- Roy Fagan, former Deputy Premier of Tasmania
- Adrian Gibson OAM, former Liberal politician and barrister
- Lara Giddings, Labor politician and former Premier of Tasmania
- Bill Hodgman, OBE, QC, former President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
- Michael Hodgman AM, QC, former Liberal politician and barrister
- Will Hodgman, Premier of Tasmania
- Michael Tate, former Labor politician and diplomat, legal academic and Catholic priest
- Peter Underwood, former Governor of Tasmania
- Hannah Yeoh, speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly
Diplomacy
- Ralph Harry AC, CBE, Diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations
Business
- Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker