Type Public Vice-Chancellor Peter Rathjen Campus Urban Founded 1893 | Established 1893 Dean Margaret Otlowski Phone +61 3 6226 2999 | |
Location Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Address Sandy Bay TAS 7005, Australia Similar University of Tasmania, Pepperz Cafe Bar Restaurant, Unigym Hobart, UTAS ITS Service Desk, The Pickled Pear | ||
University of Tasmania Faculty of Law, founded in 1893 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.
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- History
- Faculty and services
- Judges
- Legal practitioners
- Legal academics
- Politics and government
- Diplomacy
- Business
- References
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.
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 and the Journal of Law, Information and Science 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).