CALD Executive Committee Statement: Responding to Humanitarian Crises - Upholding the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights
The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) is the peak body representing Australia’s 39 university law schools, and the CALD Executive Committee is comprised of eight Australian law deans.
Announcing the winners of the 2021 Australian Legal Education Awards
The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) and the Legal Education Associate Deans (LEAD) network are delighted to announce the successful recipients of the inaugural Australian Legal Education Awards (ALEAs)!
It gives us great pleasure as the Council of Australian Law Deans to announce that Ms Jiaying Qian, a second year Bachelor of Design student at UNSW Sydney, is the winner of the Logo Design Competition!
Logo Design Competition – Australian Law School Standards
The Council of Australian Law Deans is in search for a logo design to identify Australian law schools that comply with the Australian Law School Standards.
CALD Statement on Australian Law’s Systemic Discrimination and Structural Bias Against First Nations Peoples
The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) condemns the systemic discrimination that permeates the Australian legal system with respect to First Nations peoples.
Congratulations to the Australian Legal Research Award Winners!
It is with great admiration and pleasure that we announce the winners of the inaugural Australian Legal Research Awards! Following the virtual ceremony this evening that was attended by almost 90 academics from all over Australia, here are the winners in each category:
It is with great pleasure that we announce Professor Melissa de Zwart, Dean of Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, as the new Chair of CALD commencing 9 November 2020.
CALD Statement on the High Court's investigation into sexual harassment
The Council of Australian Law Deans notes the statement issued by The Hon. Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia on 22 June 2020.
Further to the CALD meeting of 20 March 2020, we are delighted to advise that the Memorandum of Understanding between the Council of Australian Law Deans and the Australasian Law Academics Association has now been signed.
Press Release: Political Interference in Academic Research
The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) expresses its deep concern at the news that the former Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham MP, personally intervened to veto over $4M in research funding that had been approved through the globally respected, highly exacting peer review processes of the Australian Research Council (ARC).
