Australian Academy of Law
The Australian Academy of Law is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to ensuring the highest standards of legal research, education and practice.
The Academy was established on 17 July 2007, following recommendations made in the Australian Law Reform Commission's report, Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System.
Fellows
The Academy consists of an elected Fellowship which includes nine Life Fellows, 351 Fellows and 15 Overseas Fellows as at August 2020.The Life Fellows are:
- Gerard Brennan
- Quentin Bryce
- Robert French
- Murray Gleeson
- Susan Kiefel
- Kevin Lindgren
- Anthony Mason
- Robert Nicholson
- David Weisbrot
Annual essay prize
| Year | Winner | Title |
| 2015 | Ailsa McKeon | How should academia, the practising profession and the courts assist each other in the education of Australian lawyers? |
| 2016 | Lyria Bennett Moses and Robert Size | What effects have advances in technology had upon the discipline of law in academia, the practising profession and the courts, and how may that effect change over the next ten years? What steps should be taken now to harness the benefits and limit the detriments of those advances? |
| 2017 | Phillipa McCormack | How well do Australian legal institutions respond to climate change? How could that response be improved? Note: 'Australian legal institutions' includes legislatures, courts, public administration, universities and other legal teaching and research institutions |
| 2018 | Ashleigh Mills | Rights and freedoms under the Australian Constitution: what are they and do they meet the needs of the contemporary Australian society? |
| 2019 | Ellen Rock | How do private law and public law interact in Australia? What are, and what should be, the available remedies where they interact? |