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University of Tasmania College of Arts, Law and Education
TypePublic
Established2017 (1890 Arts Faculty and 1893 Law School)
Vice-ChancellorRufus Black
Location
Hobart, Tasmania
,
Australia Australia
CampusUrban
Websitewww.utas.edu.au/arts-law-education

University of Tasmania College of Arts, Law and Education, founded in 2017[1] as a new college of the University of Tasmania. It offers the undergraduate Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws degree, as well as the postgraduate degrees Master of Arts, Master of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy. In 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ ranked Law at the University of Tasmania as 61 in the World.[2]

The College is home to the School of Creative Arts, Faculty of Education, School of Humanities, Faculty of Law, and School of Social Sciences.

The current Executive Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College is Professor Kate Darian-Smith.[3]

History

The College was established in 2017 after a merger between three UTAS Faculties; the Faculty of Arts (comprising the Schools of Creative Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences); the Faculty of Law; and the Faculty of Education, as a single entity. During a short period of time in the 1990s, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Law were a single organisation as the Faculty of Commerce and Law, and there was the separated Faculty of Arts.

College and services

The College offers undergraduate and graduate Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Education programs among others.

The University of Tasmania Law Review[4] and the Journal of Law, Information and Science[5] are based within the College 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).

Notable alumni

Judges

Legal practitioners

  • Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and lawyer

Legal academics

Politics and government

Diplomacy

  • Ralph Harry AC, CBE, Diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations

Business

  • Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker

References

  1. ^ [1], retrieved on 2017-05-02.
  2. ^ "
  3. ^ http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/arts-law-education/kate-darian-smith
  4. ^ "UTAS Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania Law Review".
  5. ^ "UTAS Faculty of Law, Journal of Law, Information & Science".

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