Australian Academy of Law

The Australian Academy of Law (AAL) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to ensuring the highest standards of legal research, education and practice.

The Academy was established on 17 July 2007, following recommendations made in the Australian Law Reform Commission's report, Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System.[1]

Fellows

The Academy consists of an elected Fellowship which includes nine Life Fellows, 351 Fellows and 15 Overseas Fellows as at August 2020.[2]

The Life Fellows are:

Annual essay prize

The Australian Academy of Law administers an annual prize valued at $15,000. It was inaugurated in 2015.

Year Winner Title
2015 Ailsa McKeon How should academia, the practising profession and the courts assist each other in the education of Australian lawyers?
2016 Lyria Bennett Moses and Robert Size What effects have advances in technology (including artificial intelligence) had upon the discipline of law in academia, the practising profession and the courts, and how may that effect change over the next ten years? What steps should be taken now to harness the benefits and limit the detriments of those advances?
2017 Phillipa McCormack How well do Australian legal institutions respond to climate change? How could that response be improved? Note: 'Australian legal institutions' includes legislatures, courts, public administration, universities and other legal teaching and research institutions
2018 Ashleigh Mills Rights and freedoms under the Australian Constitution: what are they and do they meet the needs of the contemporary Australian society?
2019 Ellen Rock How do private law and public law interact in Australia? What are, and what should be, the available remedies (public or private or both) where they interact?
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References
  1. "Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System (ALRC Report 89)". Australian Law Reform Commission. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  2. "Fellows". Australian Academy of Law. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
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