Resources

Education

Reimagining the Professional Regulation of Australian Legal Education

Data regarding Law School Graduate Numbers and Outcomes

Adams, Michael. Developments in Australian curriculum and teaching across the various law degrees.

Chen, Jianfu. What Does Internationalisation of Legal Education Mean in Australian Law Schools?

Constructing joint (and exchange) programs between Chinese and Australian Law Schools for teaching of LLB, LLM And other coursework programs: An Australian Perspective.

Gerry, Felicity. 4th Sino-Australian Law Deans Meeting.

Horrigan, Bryan and Gopalan, Sandeep. Enhancing Cooperation in Teaching Programs in Areas of International, Comparative, and National Laws

Techera, Erika. Challenges and opportunities for cross-jurisdictional collaborations. Building research linkages between Australian and Chinese law schools.

Threshold Learning Outcomes for Law – Juris Doctor

Threshold Learning Outcomes for Law – Bachelor of Laws

Highlights of AUTC’s Learning Outcomes and Curriculum Development in Law Report

Some Innovations in Assessment in Legal Education

A Brief History of the CALD Standards Project

CALD Standards for Australian Law Schools Final Report

Development of Graduate Attributes as a Driver for Curriculum and Teaching Reform in Law

International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct

Learning Outcomes and Curriculum Development in Law

Resources

Australian Law School Standards adopted 30 July 2020

Assessing Research Performance in the Discipline of Law – Prof Kathy Bowrey Research Quality Report to CALD – 13 Mar 2012

Specialist Law Journal Ranking and General Law Journal Ranking Lists – Prof Kathy Bowrey Research Quality Report to CALD – 13 Mar 2012

CALD Formal Submission Bradley Review

Joint Submission to the Bradley Review of Higher Education 4 Aug 2008

Best Practices Australian Clinical Legal Education – Sep 2012

Council of Australian Law Deans Good Practice Guide to Teaching Statutory Interpretation

Promoting Law Student Well-Being Good Practice Guidelines for Law Schools Mar 2013 and revised Sep 2014

Promoting Law Student Well-Being Good Practice Guidelines for Law Schools – Mar 2013

CALD Constitution adopted 20 March 2020

CALD Executive Committee Working Rules adopted 7 August 2020

CALD Media Release re Pakistan – 20 Nov 2007

CALD Open Letter to General Musharraf – 20 Nov 2007

CALD Position Statement – Honours – 28 Aug 2012

CALD Position Statement – Masters Coursework in light of the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2011 and amended Jul 2014

CALD Position Statement – Masters – 8 Oct 2012

CALD Statement on David Hicks – Jun 2006

CALD Statement – Giving Effect to Recommendation 1 – Nov 2017

CALD Statement – The Nature of Legal Research – Oct 2005

Factsheet – Law Students in Australia – 2016

Factsheet – Law Students in Australia – 2019

BMRI Report – Courting the Blues – Law Report Website version 4 May 2009

CALD submission on DEST Review of HESA

Funding of Legal Education – Dec 2000

New Developments and Policies in Australian Legal Education – Presentation by Prof Michael Adams, Dean, School of Law & Deputy Chair CALD

Revised Uniform Admission Rules

Suggested Publication Categories for a Research Publications Database 1997

First Nations Law, Histories, & Knowledge

Beyond the Mourning Gate: Dealing with Unfinished Business

Patrick Dodson

Patrick Dodson, Beyond the Mourning Gate: Dealing with Unfinished Business (Wentworth Lecture, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 12 May 2000).

Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families

Australian Human Rights Commission

Australian Human Rights Commission, Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (Report, 1997).

Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love With Your Country

Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love With Your Country (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1st ed, 2007).

I still call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Post Colonising Society

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 'I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Post colonising Society', Uprootings / Regroundings Questions of Home and Migration (Bloomsbury Publishing 2003) 18.

Indigenous Australians and Legal Education: Looking to the Future

Douglas, Heather

Heather Douglas, 'Indigenous Australians and Legal Education: Looking to the Future' (1996) 7(2) Legal Education Review 225-252.

Jagged Worldviews Colliding

Leroy Little Bear

Leroy Little Bear, ‘Jagged worldview colliding’ in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (2000) 77-85.

Law School and the Indigenous Student Experience

Phil Falk

Phil Falk, 'Law School and the Indigenous student experience' (2004) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 8-11.

Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws, ALRC Report No 31

Australian Law Reform Commission

Australian Law Reform Commission, Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws (Report No 31, 11 June 1986).

Report on Aboriginal Customary Law (Northern Territory)

Northern Territory Law Reform Committee

Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, Report on Aboriginal Customary Law (2003).

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Final Reports Volumes 1-5

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: Final Reports, Volumes 1-5 (Commonwealth of Australia, 1991).

Some Reflections on Teaching Law: Whose Law, Yours or Mine?

Irene Watson

Irene Watson, 'Some Reflections on Teaching Law: Whose Law, Yours or Mine?' (2005) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 23-25.

Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews

Mary Graham

Mary Graham, 'Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews' (1999) 3 (2) Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 105-118.

Whiteness, Epistemology, and Indigenous Representation

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 'Whiteness, Epistemology and Indigenous Representation', in Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004) 75-88.

Guidelines & Protocols

AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (the AIATSIS Code).

AIATSIS

Australian Institute of Torres Strait and Islander Studies, AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (October 2020).

Guiding Principles for Developing Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities

Universities Australia

Universities Australia, Guiding Principles for Developing Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities (Report, 2011).

Indigenous Protocols for Lawyers (Northern Territory, 2nd ed, 2015).

Northern Territory Law Society

Northern Territory Law Society, Indigenous protocols for lawyers, (2nd ed, 2015).

Universities Australia, Indigenous Strategy 2022-2025

Universities Australia

Universities Australia, Indigenous Strategy 2022-2025 (March 2022).

ICCLAP Resources

Are We There Yet? Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Are We There Yet? Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education' (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-29.

Connection to Country: Place-based Learning Initiatives Embedded in the Charles Sturt University Bachelor of Law

Annette Gainsford

Annette Gainsford, 'Connection to country: Place-based learning initiatives embedded in the Charles Sturt University Bachelor of Law' (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-14.

Cultural Competency in a Legal Service and Justice Agency for Aboriginal Peoples Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law.

John Rawnsley, et al.

John Rawnsley, et al, 'Cultural Competency in a Legal Service and Justice Agency for Aboriginal Peoples’ (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-13.

Dealing with the ‘Wicked’ Problem of Race and the Law: A Critical Journey for Students (and Academics).

Marcelle Burns and Jennifer Nielsen

Marcelle Burns and Jennifer Nielsen, 'Dealing with the ‘Wicked’ Problem of Race and the Law: A Critical Journey for Students (and Academics)' (2019) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-30.

Growing the Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law Graduates: Barriers to the Profession

Phillip Rodgers-Falk and Robert Noomgarm Japaljarri Vidler

Phillip Rodgers-Falk and Robert Noomgarm Japaljarri Vidler, Growing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law graduates: barriers to the profession (2011).

Guiding Principles for Developing Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities

Universities Australia

Universities Australia, Guiding Principles for Developing Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities (Report, 2011).

Indigenous Contexts in the Law Curriculum: Process and Structure

Kate Galloway

Kate Galloway, 'Indigenous Contexts in the Law Curriculum: Process and Structure' (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 331-354.

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program: Final Report

Marcelle Burns, Anita Lee Hong and Asmi Wood

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program - Final Report (Australian Government, Department of Education and Training, June 2019).

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program: Literature Review

Robert Vidler

Robert Vidler, 'Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program Literature Review' (2016).

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest of them All?

Asmi Wood and Nicole Watson

Asmi Wood and Nicole Watson, 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest of them All?' (2019) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-16.

Retaining Our Best: Imposter Syndrome, Cultural Safety, Complex Lives and Indigenous Student Experiences of Law School.

Melanie Schwartz

Melanie Schwartz, 'Retaining Our Best: Imposter Syndrome, Cultural Safety, Complex Lives and Indigenous Student Experiences of Law School' (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-23.

Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Final Report

Larissa Behrendt

Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (Final Report, July 2012).

Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Final Report (Behrendt Review)

Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt et al, Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Final Report (Australian Government, July 2012).

Special Issue Editorial

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Special Issue Editorial' (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-6.

Special Issue Editorial: Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Special Issue Editorial: Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law’ (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-6.

Towards Growing Indigenous Culturally Competent Legal Professionals in Australia

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Towards growing Indigenous culturally competent legal professionals in Australia' (2013) 12(1) International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives 226-248.

Using Legislation to Teach Indigenous Cultural Competence in an Introductory Law Subject Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law

Alison Gerard and Annette Gainsford

Alison Gerard and Annette Gainsford, 'Using Legislation to Teach Indigenous Cultural Competence in an Introductory Law Subject Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law' (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-19.

’The Difficulties of Communication Encountered by Indigenous Peoples’: Moving Beyond Indigenous Deficit in the Model Admission Rules for Legal Practitioners.

Marcelle Burns, Simon Young and Jennifer Nielsen

Marcelle Burns, Simon Young and Jennifer Nielsen, ’The Difficulties of Communication Encountered by Indigenous Peoples’: Moving Beyond Indigenous Deficit in the Model Admission Rules for Legal Practitioners' (2019) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-27.

Indigenous Authors

A Mini-Public of Academics: Experimenting with Deliberative Democracy and Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education

Asmi Wood and Ron Levy

Asmi Wood and Ron Levy, 'A Mini-Public of Academics: Experimenting with Deliberative Democracy and Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education' (2019) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-17.

Are We There Yet? Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Are We There Yet? Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education' (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-29.

Beyond the Mourning Gate: Dealing with Unfinished Business

Patrick Dodson

Patrick Dodson, Beyond the Mourning Gate: Dealing with Unfinished Business (Wentworth Lecture, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 12 May 2000).

Connection to Country: Place-based Learning Initiatives Embedded in the Charles Sturt University Bachelor of Law

Annette Gainsford

Annette Gainsford, 'Connection to country: Place-based learning initiatives embedded in the Charles Sturt University Bachelor of Law' (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-14.

Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love With Your Country

Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love With Your Country (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1st ed, 2007).

Cultural Competency in a Legal Service and Justice Agency for Aboriginal Peoples Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law.

John Rawnsley, et al.

John Rawnsley, et al, 'Cultural Competency in a Legal Service and Justice Agency for Aboriginal Peoples’ (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-13.

Dealing with the ‘Wicked’ Problem of Race and the Law: A Critical Journey for Students (and Academics).

Marcelle Burns and Jennifer Nielsen

Marcelle Burns and Jennifer Nielsen, 'Dealing with the ‘Wicked’ Problem of Race and the Law: A Critical Journey for Students (and Academics)' (2019) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-30.

I still call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Post Colonising Society

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 'I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Post colonising Society', Uprootings / Regroundings Questions of Home and Migration (Bloomsbury Publishing 2003) 18.

Indigenous Cultural Competence for Legal Academics Program Literature Review.

Robert Vidler

Robert Vidler, 'Indigenous Cultural Competence for Legal Academics Program Literature Review' (2016).

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program – Final Report

Marcelle Burns, Anita Lee Hong and Asmi Wood

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program - Final Report (University of New England, June 2019).

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program: Final Report

Marcelle Burns, Anita Lee Hong and Asmi Wood

Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program - Final Report (Australian Government, Department of Education and Training, June 2019).

Indigenous People in Legal Education: Staring into a Mirror without Reflection

Nicole Watson

Nicole Watson, 'Indigenous People in Legal Education: Staring into a Mirror Without Reflection' (2005) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 4-7.

Jagged Worldviews Colliding

Leroy Little Bear

Leroy Little Bear, ‘Jagged worldview colliding’ in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (2000) 77-85.

Law School and the Indigenous Student Experience

Phil Falk

Phil Falk, 'Law School and the Indigenous student experience' (2004) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 8-11.

Law Stories and Life Stories: Aboriginal Women, the Law and Australian Society

Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt, 'Law Stories and Life Stories: Aboriginal Women, the Law and Australian Society' (2005) 20 (47) Australian Feminist Studies 245-254.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest of them All?

Asmi Wood and Nicole Watson

Asmi Wood and Nicole Watson, 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest of them All?' (2019) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-16.

Racism in Legal Education Social – A personal reflection on being an indigenous law academic.

Loretta Kelly

Loretta Kelly, 'Racism in Legal Education Special - A Personal Reflection on being an Indigenous Academic' (2005) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 19.

Some Reflections on Teaching Law: Whose Law, Yours or Mine?

Irene Watson

Irene Watson, 'Some Reflections on Teaching Law: Whose Law, Yours or Mine?' (2005) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 23-25.

Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews

Mary Graham

Mary Graham, 'Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews' (1999) 3 (2) Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 105-118.

Special Issue Editorial

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Special Issue Editorial' (2018) 28(2) Legal Education Review 1-6.

Special Issue Editorial: Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Special Issue Editorial: Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law’ (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-6.

Teaching for the 21st Century: Indigenising the Law Curriculum at UWA

Ambelin Kwaymullina

Ambelin Kwaymullina, ‘Teaching for the 21st Century: Indigenising the Law Curriculum at UWA’ (2019) 29 Legal Education Review 1-30.

Towards Growing Indigenous Culturally Competent Legal Professionals in Australia

Marcelle Burns

Marcelle Burns, 'Towards growing Indigenous culturally competent legal professionals in Australia' (2013) 12(1) International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives 226-248.

Using Legislation to Teach Indigenous Cultural Competence in an Introductory Law Subject Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law

Alison Gerard and Annette Gainsford

Alison Gerard and Annette Gainsford, 'Using Legislation to Teach Indigenous Cultural Competence in an Introductory Law Subject Indigenous Cultural Competency in Law' (2018) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-19.

Whiteness, Epistemology, and Indigenous Representation

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 'Whiteness, Epistemology and Indigenous Representation', in Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004) 75-88.

’The Difficulties of Communication Encountered by Indigenous Peoples’: Moving Beyond Indigenous Deficit in the Model Admission Rules for Legal Practitioners.

Marcelle Burns, Simon Young and Jennifer Nielsen

Marcelle Burns, Simon Young and Jennifer Nielsen, ’The Difficulties of Communication Encountered by Indigenous Peoples’: Moving Beyond Indigenous Deficit in the Model Admission Rules for Legal Practitioners' (2019) 28 (2) Legal Education Review 1-27.

Indigenous Cultural Competency & Curriculum

Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in University Teaching and Learning:

Juliana McLaughlin and Sue Whatman

Juliana McLaughlin and Sue Whatman, 'Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in University Teaching and Learning: Lessons learnt and Possibilities of reforming / decolonising curriculum' (2008) in Proceedings 4th International Conference on Indigenous Education: Asia/Pacific, Vancouver Canada, 123-146.

From a Different Place Altogether: Indigenous Students and Cultural Exclusion at Law School

Heather Douglas and Cate Banks

Heather Douglas and Cate Banks, 'From a Different Place Altogether: Indigenous Students and Cultural Exclusion at Law School' (2000) 15 Australian Journal of Law and Society 42-66.

Grand Narratives and The Law School Curriculum: Teaching Indigenous Australians and The Law

Jennifer Clarke and Anne Orford

Jennifer Clarke and Anne Orford, 'Grand Narratives and The Law School Curriculum: Teaching Indigenous Australians and The Law' (1998) 11(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal 156-172.

Indigenous Legal Education: Towards Indigenisation

Heather Douglas

Heather Douglas, 'Indigenous Legal Education: Towards Indigenisation' (2005) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 12-15.

Indigenous People in Legal Education: Staring into a Mirror without Reflection

Nicole Watson

Nicole Watson, 'Indigenous People in Legal Education: Staring into a Mirror Without Reflection' (2005) 6 (8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 4-7.

Indigenous Students’ Perceptions of Factors Contributing to Successful Law Studies

Carolyn Penfold

Carolyn Penfold, 'Indigenous Students' Perceptions of Factors Contributing to Successful Law Studies' (1996) 7 (2) Legal Education Review 155-192.

Teaching for the 21st Century: Indigenising the Law Curriculum at UWA

Ambelin Kwaymullina

Ambelin Kwaymullina, ‘Teaching for the 21st Century: Indigenising the Law Curriculum at UWA’ (2019) 29 Legal Education Review 1-30.

The Hidden Whiteness of Australian Law – A Case Study

Janet Ramsley and Elena Marchetti

Janet Ramsley and Elena Marchetti, 'The Hidden Whiteness of Australian Law - A Case Study' (2001) 10 (1) Griffith Law Review 139-152.

This is Not Just About Me: Indigenous Students’ Insights About Law School Study

Heather Douglas

Heather Douglas, 'This is Not Just about Me: Indigenous Students' Insights about Law School Study' (1998) 20(2) Adelaide Law Review 315-348.