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A BRIEF HISTORY ANU College of Law
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A BRIEF HISTORY
ANU College of Law
Welcome to Australia’s national law school.
A BRIEF HISTORY
ANU College of Law
Tertiary education began in Canberra in 1930 with the establishment of the Canberra University College – a joint initiative of the Australian Government and the University of Melbourne.
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1930
Canberra University College lectures were held in temporary huts in Childers Street, Acton.
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1930 – 1960
On 1 August 1946, The Australian National
University was established as an exclusively research-
based institution.
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1946
IMAGE COURTESY OF OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSE
Professor Herbert (Joe) Burton was
the first Professor and Principal of Canberra
University College from 1949.
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1949
On 7 December 1951, the ANU confers
its first degree of an Honorary Doctor of Laws on Sir Robert Garran, one
of the authors of the Australian Constitution and a long-time
advocate of university education in Canberra.
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1951
ANU ARCHIVES: UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHS, ANUA15/23/1
In the Law library, there is a
bust of Sir Robert Garran – everyone
rubs his nose for good luck!
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Professor Herbert Burton presenting bust to Sir Robert Garran in 1952.
In 1960, the Canberra University College was
incorporated into the ANU and became the School of
General Studies. The ANU Faculty of Law thus
dates from 1960.
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1960
Following the amalgamation of the Canberra University College into the ANU in 1960, law teaching continued for the time being in the Childers Street huts.
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ANU College of Law
1960 – 1965
Our legacy is built on excellence in research, teaching and learning.
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Published since 1964, the Federal Law Review is recognised as one of Australia’s leading academic law journals.
The first wing of the
Law building was completed in 1965.
The architects were O’Mahoney Neville
& Morgan.
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1965
The Bengali Law Reports – created
by Paul Sheehan and lodged in the ANU law
library – are part of ANU folklore, annotating comics summarising the law and moral code of Phantom
comic episodes.
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1960s
As well as the LLB, the College has offered postgraduate programs
since its commencement. The LLM was initially a research degree and was
first awarded to David Anderson in 1967.
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1967
Students (relaxing in deck chairs!) back in
1971, taking a break from study on the Law School lawns.
From the archive
1971
The Hon Kevin O’Leary was the founding director of ANU Legal Workshop – during this time, Law was heralded as ‘most innovative faculty on campus’.
ANU Legal Workshop
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1971
In 1972, the ANU Legal Workshop offered the first
university based Practical Legal Training (PLT)
program in Australia.
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1972
Dr James O’Donovan graduated with the first PhD from
ANU in Law in 1976. He is now an Adjunct Professor at
the University of Western Australia Law School.
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1976
Teams from ANU won the Jessup International Mooting Competition in Washington DC, defeating teams from around the world.
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ANU College of Law
1981 & 2010
1981 team Vivienne Bath, Andrew Byrnes, Chris Erskine and Tom Faunce2010 team Ellen Chapple, Rohan Kapur, Sarah Lynch, Sneha Rangnath and Sam Thorpe
IMAGE COURTESY OF CHENSIYUAN
The College’s postgraduate coursework programs are the largest in Australia. The LLM
coursework program dates from 1984.
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1984
The Centre for International and Public Law was established with the appointment of Professor Philip Alston. The Centre was the first in the College and one of the earliest ventures by an Australian law school to set up a research centre concentrating on a particular field of law.
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1989
In 1998 we inaugurated the annual
Geoffrey Sawer lecture, since delivered by such luminaries
as Sir Ninian Stephen, Justice Elizabeth Evatt, and Professor Leslie Zines. Geoffrey Sawer
was appointed as the first Professor of Law at
ANU in 1950.
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1998
We have been honoured to have as members of the College many of the country’s most eminent legal experts.
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2008
Emeritus Professors (clockwise from back left)Dennis Pearce, David Hambly, Jim Davis, Don Greig, Jack Richardson and Leslie ZinesIMAGE COURTESY OF MICHAEL COPER
Today, ANU College of Law is now home to over 25 per cent of students at The Australian National University.
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ANU College of Law
2015
The ANU Law Students’ Society dates from 1963 and has grown to be one of the largest societies on campus.
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1963 – 2015
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ANU College of Law
In our 50+ years as the ANU College of Law, we’ve brought together some of the best and brightest legal minds in Australia.
Through the achievements of our staff, students and alumni, we have created an enviable reputation in Australia and around the world.
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We have an extraordinary visitors program that has seen some of the world’s most eminent lawyers and public figures spend time at the College.
Visitors over the years have included the Dalai Lama, Justices of
the United States Supreme Court, Justices of the
High Court of Australia, ex-Prime Ministers and many others.
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We are considered a leader in constitutional and administrative law.
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. . . and have particular expertise in international law.
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. . . and are home to one of Australia’s most respected environmental law programs.
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We contribute significantly to the
ANU top ranking of 5 in Excellence in Research
Australia (ERA) and we are one of only two Australian universities
to achieve this.
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2015
Above all, we are guided by a commitment to the values of law reform and social justice.
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While we respect and learn from our history, we never let it limit or constrain us from developing bold new initiatives.
2015
John Fleming 1959 – 60
Harold Ford 1960 – 61
Jack Richardson 1961 – 66, 1968 – 70
Harry Whitmore 1970 – 72
Patrick Atiyah 1972 – 73
Leslie Zines 1973 – 75, 1984 – 86
Douglas Whalan 1975 – 77
Don Greig 1977 – 80, 1988 – 91
David Hambly 1980 – 82, 1986 – 88
Dennis Pearce 1982 – 84, 1991–94
Tom Campbell 1995 – 97
Michael Coper 1998 –2012
Stephen Bottomley since 2013
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Law Deans
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Ours is a law school that is continually looking to the future.
2015
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In just 50 years, we’ve grown to become one of the world’s leading law schools.
We are Australia’s only 20/20 law school –
a world’s top 20 law school at a world’s top 20 university.
*QS World University Rankings
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2015
