We have a long tradition of providing high-quality legal education and undertaking progressive, high-impact research.
The core research business of our Faculty is analysis, advice and the development of reform proposals in the field of law and legal policy. Our centres also have staff skilled in data collection, data analysis and program evaluation.
- Recent publications
- Research centres
- Collaborations and partnerships
- Recent projects
- Concession for contributions
Contesting Native Title
David Ritter
(Allen & Unwin, 2009)
Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore
Chan Wing Cheong, Neil Morgan and Stanley Yeo
(LexisNexis, 2008)
Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security
Michael Blakeney
(CAB International, 2009)
The Native Title Market
David Ritter
(UWA Publishing, 2009)
Perspectives on Declaratory Relief
Kanaga Dharmananda and Anthony Papamatheos
(Federation Press, 2009)
Water Resources Law
Alex Gardner, Richard Bartlett & Janice Gray
(LexisNexis, 2009)
Collaborations and partnerships
With a wealth of specialist expertise, and a willingness to listen to the needs of government and industry, members of the Faculty already have strong relationships with a range of government bodies, peak industry groups and key private sector players.
Examples include:
- Department of Corrective Services
- Department of the Attorney General
- Office of Crime Prevention
- Aboriginal Legal Service (WA)
- Department of Indigenous Affairs
- West Australian Law Reform Commission
- Department for Child Protection
- Department for Communities
- Australian and New Zealand School of Government
- Australian Resources and Energy Law Association
- Department of Water of Western Australia
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- Department of Consumer and Employment Protection
- Drug and Alcohol Office
- Disability Services Commission
- Centrelink
- Reproductive Technology Council of WA
- Attorney General's Working Group on Succession Law Reform
- Francis Burt Legal Education Centre
- State Administrative Tribunal
- Environmental Defenders Office (WA)
- Australian Institute of Administrative Law
- Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SAT)
- Prisoners Review Board
- The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
- Woodside
Recent projects
Collaborative research undertaken or in progress includes:
- employment relations
- the recognition of Aboriginal
customary law - the Aboriginal Justice Plan
- systemic racism in the
Victorian justice system - local government crime
prevention initiatives - family and domestic violence
- Native title institutional reform
- child support and 'welfare to work' law reform
- health law and policy
- mental health law reform
- consumer law
- water law management and reform
- agricultural law and policy
- environmental law and policy
- mining, energy and resources law.
Concessions, grants and funding
Industry contributions to a project may be eligible for the research and development tax concession.
For information on this, and grants and funding sources which your organisation may be able to access to develop a new project or process, contact Dr Andy Sierakowski at UWA's Office of Industry and Innovation on telephone (+61 8) 6488 7048.
