The winners of the 2024 Australian Research Awards (ALRA) have recently been announced and several members of Deakin Law School have supported the ALRA's in the roles of nominees and judges.

In 2020, the Council of Australian Law Deans established the Australian Legal Research Awards (ALRA). Professor Dan Meagher, Director of Research at Deakin Law School says, ‘The principal objective of the ALRA’s is to encourage, recognise and promote research excellence and innovation in the discipline of law by Australian legal scholars. They have quickly become an important fixture in the Australian legal academy and a prestigious national award for outstanding scholarly research.’

The winners of the Australian Legal Research Awards for this year have been announced: https://legalawardsaustralia.com/past-winners/

Whilst the Deakin Law School did not produce a winner this year, we congratulate all those who submitted their work. We’d like to extend a special congratulations to Oscar Roos who was shortlisted for the Article/Chapter (General) award for his article ‘The Kable Doctrine, State Legislative Power and the Text and Structure of the Constitution’ (2023) 46 University of New South Wales Law Journal 931.

We also thank our judges for this year – Matthew Groves (Article/Chapter – ECR); Tania Penovic (PhD) and Ben Saunders (Article/Chapter – General) – who served in a voluntary capacity and without whom the ALRA scheme would not be possible.

‘The DLS has quickly established a proud record in the Australian Legal Research Awards. Ben Saunders and Jane Kotzmann won awards for their published scholarship in 2023 and 2022 respectively, and Bruce Chen and Shiri Krebs were shortlisted in those same years,’ Professor Meagher says. ‘This is an outstanding achievement and important recognition of the quality of legal scholarship being undertaken in the Deakin Law School and the vibrancy of its research culture.’