# Research

**Source**: https://law.anu.edu.au/research
**Parent**: https://www.anu.edu.au/environment-sustainability

Research

Find out why our research makes us one of the best law schools in the world.

Since 1960, ANU has stood as a leader in legal research, addressing contemporary legal, social and political challenges in Australia and around the world.

## Research Areas

[### International Law](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/international-law)

[### Comparative Law](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/comparative-law)

[### Environment, Climate & Health](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/environment-climate-health)

[### Law, Science & Technology](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/law-science-technology)

[### Law & Society](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/law-society)

[### Legal Theory](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/legal-theory)

[### Public Law](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/public-law)

[### Private Law](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/private-law)

[### Criminal Justice](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/criminal-justice)

[### Law, Colonialism & Indigenous Justice](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/law-colonialism-indigenous-justice)

[### The Legal Profession](https://law.anu.edu.au/research/legal-profession)

## News

28 January 2025

[Scholar Spotlight – Dr Susan Bartie](https://law.anu.edu.au/news-and-events/news/scholar-spotlight-dr-susan-bartie)

Dr Susan Bartie is a passionate socio-legal historian at the ANU Law School. She is currently working on a 50-year history of Australian environmental lawyers (both academic and practising). This project builds on her prior studies of the discipline of law and is part of her broader academic agenda: to strengthen the empirical dimensions of law and better integrate them into mainstream legal studies and cognate disciplines.

13 January 2025

[New CIPL Report: War Funders and Profiteers](https://law.anu.edu.au/news-and-events/news/new-cipl-report-war-funders-and-profiteers)

This month CIPL is delighted to announce the publication of a major new report that we hope will shape policy thinking in Australia and globally. The report is entitled War Funders and Profiteers: Economic Complicity in International Crimes in Ukraine and Beyond and, as the title suggests, it takes on the crucial but under-explored issue of international criminal responsibility of those who fund international crimes – war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression – or profit from them.

02 April 2024

[ANU law students recognised at international mediation competition](https://law.anu.edu.au/news-and-events/news/anu-law-students-recognised-international-mediation-competition)

A group of ANU College of Law students have been recognised at the 19th International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commercial Mediation Competition, the world’s largest student mediation competition.

## Research Overviews

[2024 Research Overview](https://law.anu.edu.au/files/2025-04/ANU%20Law%20School%20Research%20Overview%202025%20V5%2007042025%20%28Digital%20Publishing%29.pdf )

[2023 Research Overview](https://law.anu.edu.au/files/2024-02/ANU_RAR%2723_Web.pdf )

[2022 Research Overview](https://law.anu.edu.au/files/2023-12/research_annual_report_2022_0.pdf )